Danielle Carter-Walters
Co-founder of Chicago Flips Red. Candidate for mayor of Chicago, on the ballot February 23, 2027.
A conservative organizer, fitness trainer, and small business owner married to a retired Chicago police officer, running as a law-and-order outsider. Filed 13,000 signatures within an hour of the deadline.
Campaign website (dannicformayor.com)
Campaign money
No spending report found for this campaign yet.
Money figures are each committee's quarterly reports to the Illinois State Board of Elections: spent is total expenditures from January 1 to September 30, 2026 (or since the committee formed), cash is funds available on September 30.
Support
Not listed in the ChicagoSpeaks poll, Sept. 2026 (Mansueto Institute / NORC).
What they would do
- A Chicago DOGE accountability office to cut waste, expose fraud, and fund the basics.
Cut waste. Expose fraud. Fund the basics.
(dannicformayor.com) - Restore law and order.
Restore law and order.
(dannicformayor.com) - Stop what she calls taxing the city into decline.
Stop taxing decline.
(dannicformayor.com)
AI summary
Main points
The pitch: A conservative outsider's campaign built around a Chicago DOGE office, law and order, and lower taxes.
What is published: Nineteen issue headings on her site, from public safety to sanctuary city policy, each a slogan with no policy text behind it yet.
Next to the others
Only Carter-Walters: A DOGE-style audit office, and a stated position on sanctuary city policy.
Law and order: Carter-Walters, Kelly, and Wilson lead with public safety.
Party: Carter-Walters and Kitover are the field's conservatives in a nonpartisan race.
On money
Would cut waste and expose fraud through a Chicago DOGE accountability office, and stop raising taxes on a shrinking city.
Cut waste. Expose fraud. Fund the basics.
(dannicformayor.com)
Pizza
No position on record.
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