A shadowy campaign known only as “Keep Dallas Safe” has been playing politics in Dallas for the past half-year. No one knows who funds the organization, a nonprofit group that can conceal its donors thanks to a rule introduced by the Trump administration in 2020. The people who run the day-to-day operations say their wealthy clients don’t want their names revealed.
The group’s donors may be secret, but its stances are clear: City Manager T.C. Broadnax has to go; Mayor Eric Johnson is OK; and a City Council decision to trim the police department’s overtime budget last year is just one more step on Dallas’ road to anarchy, chaos and “Californication.” (They’re also worried about the city’s “Austinization,” which is presumably similar to Californication, but without the beaches.