Why Not Zach?

4 Mayor of Charlotte

Hi, I’m Zach! I’m running for Interim Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina!

Why should Zach be the Mayor?

Why NOT Zach?!

He’s got a suit
He promises to show up to ALL the City Council meetings
- (Even though they’re often quite boring, and sometimes people yell at you)
He will have a beer with you. All 964,000 of you.

Zach will do that. For you. His constituents.

Why Not Zach? For your Mayor.

The Essay I Submitted With My Application to be Interim Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina:

I am interested in serving as Interim Mayor because I love the Queen City and I want to help make it a better place.

I have proudly lived in Charlotte, North Carolina since I graduated college in 2010. I am an intelligent, passionate, civic-minded citizen who cares deeply about the people of this city.

I would like to serve as Interim Mayor for the same reason anyone joins Local Government: I want to help people.

I want to help people like my friend Chelsea who is a CMS teacher who tells me about severe school underfunding and understaffing making her job more difficult by the day.

I want to help the children in CMS schools get the education they deserve and were promised - no matter which neighborhood they live in.

I want to help the people I see everyday on the busses and trains who deserve a dignified, clean, safe, and timely way to get to work.

I want to help the unhoused people on North Tryon living in tents, in the shadows of banking skyscrapers, despite living in the wealthiest country on earth.

I want to help immigrants who were harassed and wrongfully detained by ICE and local Black populations who face daily harassment from local law enforcement.

I want to help the trees, the birds, and the creeks, so that their natural beauty and various health benefits can continue to bless our citizens for years to come.

I want to help myself gain a few social media followers for my amateur comedy career. Hey, at least I'm honest! It's way low on the list, though, to be fair.

Look, I know you're not going to select me. I'm not even sure that you should select me.

However, I know that if you DID select me, I would do everything in my power to learn every law, provision, zoning guideline, et cetera that the job required. I would research every issue, lean on subject matter experts, and ask people smarter than me for advice when applicable. I would then compassionately and logically make the best decision that I could.

And honestly? That's all I ask of my public servants.