One More Look at Campaign Finance Reports Before Election Day
Incumbents are out-raising their challengers, which wasn t the case a month ago. Get informed and go vote on Saturday.
By Alex Macon
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April 30, 2021
9:09 am
Are you going to vote Saturday? Not many people are. But you’re not many people. You’re you. You’re on this stuff. You’ve read all about Mayor Eric Johnson. The mayor, isolated for much of his first two years on the council, is not on the ballot. But he’s inserted himself into several races in an apparent effort to bring some allies into City Hall. You’ve learned what, exactly, those confusingly worded city of Dallas ballot propositions mean. You know those campaign mailers about defunding the police are a lot of noise without much substance. You know a lot’s at stake, from thefuture of public transit to the city’s environmental health to building permits to basic infrastructure. A lot of federal money is also coming ou
Saturday’s Dallas city council election has become in part a referendum on Mayor Eric Johnson and his failed attempt to prevent the council from cutting $7.
Seven challenging incumbent in South Dallas City Council District, police overtime cut at center of debate
City Council member Adam Bazaldua faces Tramonica Brown, Kevin Felder, Walter “Changa” Higgins, Calvin Johnson, Donald Parish, James “JT” Turknett and Israel Varela
The Texas Star Ferris wheel towers over Leonhardt Lagoon where the swan boats are at Fair Park on Tuesday, June 18, 2019. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News)(Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer)
The Dallas City Council elections are May 1 and early voting starts Monday. All 14 council seats are contested, and three districts, 2, 11 and 13, will see new faces as the incumbents have reached term limits. The other 11 incumbents face challengers. This is the ninth of 14 stories on the races, which started with coverage of the three open seats. The rest are being featured in ascending numerical order.
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