Official Campaign Announcement

For Release 11.12.2024

My name is Eli Tsarovsky (he/him) and I am running for District 4 Alder on Madison Common Council for Spring 2025. 

This week has been a hard week for our community and more than ever we need to come together to support each other. My team and I are bringing our CARES Platform to Madison and showing Madison you can care about each other through local policy. We will be focusing on Community, Affordability, Rights, Environment and Safety.

Through my work as a community organizer in downtown Madison I have worked tirelessly on building community, lowering rent, and safety in downtown Madison. As past President of the Campus Area Neighborhood Association and current President of Capitol Neighborhoods Inc., I have created multi-generational and multiracial coalitions to determine how local development projects and city zoning can better build our community through centering people and culture. I have been a part of the fight to lower rent for neighbors downtown through the local development processes and by engaging neighbors in providing feedback directly to development teams. Also, I have led petitioning of our local elected officials and speaking at city meetings to demand we do better as a community to create better solutions to lower the cost of housing in our city. 

I have centered our environment through my work of pushing local developers to build more environmentally friendly buildings, making that developers think about stormwater management to keep our lakes from becoming polluted, and supporting neighbors in connecting with local community gardens to enhance the green space of downtown Madison.

Safety has been at the center of my work for the residents of downtown Madison. As an undergraduate student at UW-Madison, I was the chair of PAVE and co-created coalitions and advocated for increased resources to support survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence on campus. As a neighborhood association president, I have worked with the Isthmus Safety Initiative through Public Health Madison & Dane County to create community solutions to prevent sexual violence and support our housing insecure neighbors through co-leading a community coalition to make resources safer to access in downtown Madison. 

Are you looking for a place to get more involved in the community? We are creating a stronger community through creating opportunities to connect and meet through our coalition. We want you to join us in our movement to make District 4 and Madison a place where everyone can live, work, and play as their authentic self. We want our downtown to not only be a great place to visit, but a great place to form your future and your community. Join our collection vision to make downtown Madison a place that everyone can belong in and be proud to call home.

Visit our website eli4madison.com to learn about us and join our multi-generational, multi-racial community movement to create a more caring Madison. 

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