Brandaun Dean in Survey of 2021 Senate campaign websites
On Civil Rights:
Has been a champion for LGBTQ equality
Dean also appointed the most diverse cohort of officers in the city's history; sought the intervention of local county law enforcement and prosecutors to review practices of an ethically challenged City police department; initiated cost-savings and
efficiency improvement efforts to provide greater quality of public safety and public works services to 2,900 citizens. Dean has been a champion for public education reform, criminal justice reform, clean energy, and LGBTQ equality.
Source: 2021 Alabama Senate campaign website BrandaunDean.com
Oct 29, 2021
On Drugs:
Enacted decriminalization of recreational marijuana use
As Mayor of Brighton, Dean served as CEO of a $2.3 million enterprise with supervision of five appointed officers; proposing and passing legislation to decriminalize the recreational use of marijuana,
providing sanctuary to immigrant families, increasing city workers pay to $15 per hour, funding the reopening of the city's only community center; and clearing public lands neglected by failed public works efforts for more than twenty years.
Source: 2021 Alabama Senate campaign website BrandaunDean.com
Oct 29, 2021
On Education:
Got school officials replaced over ethics, performance
After leaving Howard University in 2014 Dean joined the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in Jefferson County, Alabama where he successfully organized teachers in one of the state's lowest performing high
schools to replace the district's superintendent and the school's principal citing ethics and performance issues.
Source: 2021 Alabama Senate campaign website BrandaunDean.com
Oct 29, 2021
On Health Care:
Personally intervened to save employee health insurance
Despite little cooperation from the city council, he saved employee health insurance by making a surprise appearance at a five-member insurance
board hearing where he illustrated the city's hardships but willingness to cooperate with demands in order to avoid loss of coverage.
Source: 2021 Alabama Senate campaign website BrandaunDean.com
Oct 29, 2021
On Principles & Values:
Elected youngest mayor in Alabama at age 24
At age 24, Brandaun Dean became the youngest mayor in the State of Alabama and the youngest African American municipal government chief in the nation when he was elected mayor of his hometown, Brighton, Alabama on August 23, 2016.
Dean's aggressive approach to governing left him at odds with many in the old guard of Jefferson County's local politics.
In his first six months in office Dean's car was vandalized, police attempted but failed to illegally search the home he shared with his grandmother, and he was reported to the
Alabama Ethics Commission for illegal use of a police car after using the vehicle to attend a Global Leadership conference while repairs to his vandalized personal automobile were made.
Source: 2021 Alabama Senate campaign website BrandaunDean.com
Oct 29, 2021
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