D’Andre AndersonChattanooga college student and community activist D’Andre Anderson is running for the already contested District 8 City Council seat.
Anderson, 21, is a senior at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and a lifelong resident of Chattanooga. He says he’s running because he wants to see more-in-touch elected officials.
“After a global pandemic, after the tornadoes that happened here in Chattanooga, and then coming off the tails of the Black Lives Matter movement, something in my heart changed and I feel like it’s just time for elected officials that are going to put people over politics,” he said Monday.
“I just couldn’t vote for the people that are running in the district. Nothing personal, but I just feel like I don’t think they’re going to be able to give the community what we need,” he said. “So I decided that I’m going to step into that race and try to be the voice of reason for the community.”
If elected, Anderson said, he will aim to represent people rather than any of his own political ideas, in order to improve economic disparities in the district.