Joshua Sroge
srogeforlouisville.com
CFO at the HBAR Foundation, a fund for cryptocurrency startups; 10 years volunteering with Emergency Family Assistance Association (seven years on the board); owner of the finance and accounting consultant firm Firestone CFO.
Priorities
- Economic vitality
- Public safety
- Attainable housing
Other things to note
- Sroge is against the Via Appia restriping, a project that reduced the corridor to one lane of vehicle travel, adds buffers around bike lanes and reduces crossing distances for pedestrians.
- He plans to use incentives and zoning to encourage blended socioeconomic housing developments.
- Sroge sees tax incentives as an opportunity to bring in new developments, such as the King Soopers Marketplace in the old Lowe’s location.
- Sroge’s campaign is entirely self-funded, and he says he would donate his city council salary to local nonprofits if elected.
View his full candidate profile.
Josh Cooperman
coopermanforlouisvilleward1.org
Member of the Louisville Sustainability Advisory Board (2021-2024), Member of the Louisville Bee City USA Committee (2023-2024), Founder of the Louisville Sustainability Alliance (2024)
Priorities
- Environmental sustainability, especially climate action
- Creation of more affordable housing
- Revitalization of downtown Louisville and other commercial centers
Other things to note
- Cooperman finished third in the 2023 Louisville mayoral race with 16% of the vote.
- He sees rezoning vacant commercial spaces and upzoning existing residential space near commercial zones as an opportunity to create more affordable housing.
- Cooperman wants to implement local regulations to mitigate climate change, including limiting local sources of air pollution like two-stroke engines, building plant buffer zones around roads and rails, growing its tree canopy and supporting water conservation measures.
- He would advocate for undergrounding power lines and planned power outages in Louisville’s upcoming agreement renegotiations with Xcel Energy.
View his full candidate profile.
Where the candidates stand on the issues
Do you support the Redtail Ridge development?
- Sroge: Yes
- Cooperman: No
Do you support local efforts to increase the minimum wage?
- Sroge: No
- Cooperman: Yes
Do you support an end to the state prohibition on rent control?
- Sroge: Yes
- Cooperman: Yes
Do you support interventions for human-caused climate change?
- Sroge: Yes
- Cooperman: Yes
Do you support for SB24-157 which narrowed the definition of what constitutes a public meeting?
- Sroge: Yes
- Cooperman: No
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