St. Rose flooding put her in the race. She had been among residents pressing for a solution when she decided pressing was not enough. "It's time for me to get off of Facebook and actually get involved," she told the Herald-Guide, rather than stay the armchair quarterback.
Seeing the drainage plan through. The parish master drainage plan was reaching the council as she campaigned. Her stated job was to make sure the council understood it and then to "shepherd those projects into being done," which is a commitment to the unglamorous middle of a project rather than its announcement.
Why she says she can. Her background is maritime and environmental law, work that turns on reading dense documents for what actually binds. "I know where to find answers for our residents," she said, offering to "dig through all of that and get things done for District V."
A standing committee for the district. Her campaign proposed a District 5 Unity and Vision Committee drawing in community leaders, business owners, educators and residents, with two high school students as full members, meeting regularly so that community concerns reach the council before decisions rather than after them. Her campaign ran under the line "Straight Talk. Strong Advocacy."
O'Daniels won a November 2023 runoff. The committee was a campaign proposal and has not been established.