The Chicago Tribune has endorsed Carlos Ramirez-Rosa for 35th Ward Alderman, stating: 

"Incumbent Rey Colon strikes us as one tired alderman. Maybe it's just the contrast with his enthusiastic and well-prepared opponent, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, an organizer with the Illinois Coalition for Immigration and Refugee Rights. He offers fresh ideas to reinvigorate the ward, which includes parts of Avondale and Logan Square. He wants to build a database of suspected drug houses and aggressively clear them out. He wants to match new businesses with constituents who are looking for work. He thinks Logan Square could attract a boutique hotel. He recognizes the city cannot continue to spend money it doesn't have. Colon has been a steady overseer of the ward, but Ramirez-Rosa would be a more aggressive advocate, and he is endorsed."

View our full list of endorsements here: www.carlosrosa.org/endorsed

Regular Chicagoans, teachers, nurses, public employees, community leaders, and hardworking men and women have endorsed Carlos Ramirez-Rosa for 35th Ward Alderman because they know his record and share his vision of putting our neighborhoods first. 

• Chicago Tribune
• Independent Voters of Illinois - Independent Precinct Organization (IVI-IPO)
• Citizen Action Illinois
• Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL)
• United Working Families
• Chicago Teachers Union (CTU)
• Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
• AFSCME Council 31
• Reclaim Chicago
  
  • National Nurses United (NNU)
  • The People's Lobby
• Progressive Democrats of America (PDA)
• Cook County College Teachers Union
• Chicago ACTS
• Teamsters Joint Council 25
• IBEW Local 134
• Justice Party of Illinois
• Northside Democracy for America (NDFA)
• Grassroots Illinois Action
• State Senator Willie Delgado
• State Representative Will Guzzardi
• Cook County Commissioner Jesus 'Chuy' Garcia

Endorsements in no particular order.

Stop by the campaign office at 3035 N. Milwaukee to pick up your Carlos window sign or button! They're a great way to show your support for change in the 35th Ward! If you can't stop by the office request a window sign: www.carlosrosa.org/contact. Wear your button while you help us knock some doors! If you haven't already, please sign up to volunteer: www.carlosrosa.org/join. 

Today, our Aldermen voted to raise the minimum wage to $13 in five years. I was one of many Chicagoans who worked with labor and community groups to raise the minimum wage, and I applaud the City Council for finally taking a step in the right direction, but I believe Chicago's working families deserve more than $13 an hour in five years.

If the minimum wage had kept pace with U.S. productivity it would have reached over $21 an hour today. Our families deserve a living wage of no less than $15 an hour now. By voting yes on amending the minimum wage ordinance, Alderman Rey Colon asked Chicagoans to wait five years for a $13 an hour minimum wage. Five years is too long, and it's made all the more offensive when you consider Alderman Colon will raise his own salary to $115,465 in just 29 days. Big corporations can more than afford to pay their workers a $15 an hour living wage today, but regular Chicagoans cannot afford politicians who don't put our families first.  

Today's vote deepened my resolve to win on February 24th and win a $15 an hour minimum wage for Chicago's workers. 

After collecting more than 1,500 signatures supporting his election bid in the 35th Ward alderman elections, Carlos Rosa is ramping up his campaign to oust incumbent Ald. Rey Colón.

Reclaim Chicago, a coalition of the People’s Lobby and National Nurses United, are endorsing candidates in 13 aldermanic races. About 300 people attended the Saturday morning event at the National Letter Carriers Association, 3850 S. Wabash.

Two major Chicago coalitions are working to change the city’s political course by targeting the 50-member City Council, trying to elect more progressive candidates willing to challenge the mayor while also building a durable political grassroots movement.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel unveiled his proposed 2015 city budget yesterday. From cutting health benefits for our retired seniors, to imposing regressive taxes on Chicago's working families - the proposed 2015 budget is 'balanced' on the backs of working people.

I believe it's time our Aldermen close corporate tax loopholes and ask millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share, instead of reaching deeper into the pockets of everyday Chicagoans. 

I invite you to sign this petition if you agree that our city's budget shouldn't be 'balanced' on the backs of everyday Chicagoans.

-Carlos Ramirez-Rosa