page_title: Carlos Ramirez-Rosa
section_title: Chicago City Council
hierarchical_section_title: Carlos Ramirez-Rosa / Chicago City Council
caption_attribution_description: English: Carlos Rosa speaking to supporters during his 2015 campaign for Chicago alderman
context_page_description: Carlos Ramirez-Rosa is an American politician. He has served as the alderman for Chicago's 35th Ward since May 18, 2015, and 35th Ward Democratic Committeeman since 2016. Prior to his election to the Chicago City Council, he worked as a community organizer with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, and a congressional aide to U.S. Representative Luis Gutiérrez.
  He is a member of the Chicago City Council's Progressive Reform Caucus, and was elected to serve as a delegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention as a Bernie Sanders supporter. Elected at the age of 26 to the Chicago City Council in February 2015, he is the city's youngest alderman, and one of the youngest Aldermen ever elected.
  He is a self-described democratic socialist and a member of Democratic Socialists of America.
context_section_description: He was elected the alderman of the 35th ward on February 24, 2015. He received 67% of the vote, defeating incumbent alderman Rey Colón. He is the youngest current alderman and one of the youngest aldermen in the history of Chicago, and one of the city's first two openly LGBT Latino councillors alongside colleague Raymond Lopez.  After a year as alderman, Crain's Chicago Business distinguished Ramirez-Rosa as a member of their 2016 "Twenty in their 20s" class.  He joined the Democratic Socialists of America in March 2017. Ramirez-Rosa's current term of office expires in May 2019.
  Ramirez-Rosa was selected by Daniel Biss as Biss's running mate in the 2018 Illinois gubernatorial election on August 31, 2017. On September 6, Ramirez-Rosa was removed from the ticket by Biss, following a controversy surrounding Ramirez-Rosa's support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement.
  In May 2018, after casting the lone vote against the construction of a new police academy, Ramirez-Rosa was expelled from the Chicago City Council's Latino Caucus. Ramirez-Rosa was later readmitted to the Latino Caucus after public outcry.
  In the 2019 Chicago mayoral election, Ramirez-Rosa endorsed Toni Preckwinkle, giving her his endorsement before the first round of the election.
  In November 2019, Ramirez-Rosa was one of eleven aldermen to vote against Mayor Lori Lightfoot's first budget. He joined all five other members of the Socialist Caucus in signing a letter to Lightfoot which criticized her budget for "an over-reliance on property taxes" and "regressive funding models" that are "burdensome to our working-class citizens, while giving the wealthy and large corporations a pass."
caption: Ramirez-Rosa campaigning in 2015
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