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Following the Money in Dallas City Council Campaigns
You can learn a lot from campaign finance reports.
By
Alex Macon and Matt Goodman
Published in
FrontBurner
April 14, 2021
12:24 pm
Earlier this month, over 50 candidates in 14 contested Dallas City Council races had to file their latest campaign finance reports, documenting their fundraising and spending over the last several months.
The Dallas Morning News has hit on some of the bigger takeaways from these records. Almost $900,000 has been pumped into contests that will determine the makeup of the city council, with Mayor Eric Johnson spared from having to run for re-election until 2023. Big-name donors who have previously backed the mayor are now supporting challenges to three incumbent city council members who voted against Johnson last fall in a battle over police overtime funding a sign that public safety concerns (and the mayor’s strained relationships with many of his colleagues) are driving forces this election
Five candidates in the running to replace Adam Medrano on the Dallas City Council
For the first time in 16 years, none of the competitors carry the Medrano family name in the District 2 race.
The Deep Ellum sign in Dallas photographed on Thursday, Apr. 8, 2021. (Juan Figueroa/ The Dallas Morning News)(Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer)
The Dallas City Council elections are May 1 and early voting starts April 19. All 14 council seats are contested, and three will see new faces as incumbents have reached term limits. The other 11 incumbents face challengers. This is the second of 14
on each race, which kicked off with coverage of the three open district seats: 11, 2 and 13. The rest will be featured in ascending numerical order.
Every seat contested
Feb 26, 2021 |
Leland R. Burke, left, in District 13 and Jonas Park, right, in District 2 are the only two openly LGBTQ challengers running for Dallas City Council. Openly gay Mayor Pro Tem Adam Medrano, District 2 cannot run again due to term limits. Openly gay incumbents Chad West in District 1 and Omar Narvaez in District 6 are running for re-election.
At least two new gay candidates seek to join two gay incumbents on the Dallas City Council
DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer
Three Dallas City Council members have reached their term limit and will not be able to run for re-election., including openly gay Mayor Pro Tem Adam Medrano. Medrano represents District 2, which includes part of Oak Lawn.
It just was a few men together on a recent cool morning, most with a good bit of gray in their hair standing in front of a few cameras talking about the community they have ministered to collectively for more than a century and closer to two.
At times, it was hard to hear them. Their voices were soft. They had no megaphones. There were no crowds chanting back their expressions.
But what they had to say should be heard and remembered the next time some claim to speak for an entire community and say that the police generally are the problem and must be defunded, replaced or disempowered.