Hello Fort Worth and welcome to another episode of the Fort Worth Freedom Review.

If you are new here, the Freedom Review exists to inform and educate the Fort Worth and Tarrant County community about the values and the functions of civic engagement, the goings-on of the local City Council, the Mayor, the County Commissioners Court as well as important news stories from our community and from the greater Texas community including state political issues. 

 My name is Anthony Sosa and today with me we have Christopher Rose and Thomas Moore here to discuss the 2021 Mayoral candidates for Fort Worth. There are currently 6 people who have announced and we are going to run down any available information we could find about them and provide them below. We specifically decided not to use the Star-Telegram for reasons of access to information. There are some great reporters at the publication but the inability for people to access the stories can be more than frustrating so we are providing alternate sources. Thankfully MSN picked up a Luke Ranker story so we have that link below. We also will provide the candidates’ Twitter handles for those who have an account. 

All of the resources used for this episode will be provided below in the show notes. 

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Music by Anthony Sosa

Info: https://www.fortworthtexas.gov/departments/citysecretary/mayor-2021

https://www.klif.com/2021/01/11/deborah-peoples-brian-byrd-running-for-fort-worth-mayor/ 

Brian Byrd Info:

https://ballotpedia.org/Brian_Byrd

https://byrd4mayor.org/about-brian/

Mike Haynes Info:

https://voterguide.dallasnews.com/2019-municipal-elections/candidates/718/

Mattie Parker Info: 

@mattieparker12 on Twitter

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-fort-worth-mayoral-candidate-has-endorsements-from-the-bass-family-other-big-names/ar-BB1d0xNZ

https://fortworthbusiness.com/government/mayor-fort-worth-mattie-parker/

https://t3partnership.org/about

https://twitter.com/MattieParker12

Deborah Peoples Info: 

@shonadeb on Twitter

https://www.klif.com/2021/01/11/deborah-peoples-brian-byrd-running-for-fort-worth-mayor/

https://ballotpedia.org/Deborah_Peoples

https://www.deborahpeoplesformayor.com/

Chris Rector Info:

@rectorvote on Twitter (Official)

@cdrectoraouther on Twitter

Book on Amazon and Bio

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KTQ7FPQ 

Ann Zadeh Info

@AnnZadeh on Twitter

https://annzadeh.com/

https://fortworthbusiness.com/government/zedah-fort-worth-mayor/

https://www.fwweekly.com/2021/01/06/the-untouchables/

https://www.dfwi.org/item/fort-worth-mayors-race-is-getting-crowded-heres-who-signed-up-on-first-day-of-filing