The battle of the memos continued at City Hall on Thursday with more accusations of playing politics flying between Mayor Eric Johnson and council members over the question of how to ensure fair distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to Black, Hispanic and other neighborhoods typically shorted on services.
The latest round ended with the mayor agreeing to council members call for more effort from the city to get people of color registered to get a shot, but not before the mayor and council members traded a different kind of shots, exposing bad blood between the mayor and others on the council.
Dallas Political Battles Further Complicate Fair Vaccine Distribution
Local governments are responsible for getting vaccines in people s arms. It isn t going smoothly because they don t all agree on the best path forward.
By Matt Goodman
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FrontBurner
January 21, 2021
3:53 pm
If you live in Dallas and hope to get the COVID-19 vaccine soon, good luck. Bureaucracy and infighting are in far greater supply.
The mayor is at odds with the county judge and members of the City Council over how to register residents for vaccinations. The state of Texas has threatened the County Commissioners Court with pulling the Fair Park mega center’s vaccine supply, which triggered an emergency meeting to kill an order. And members of the City Council allege the mayor is making it harder to get people living in poor neighborhoods signed up for appointments. It has been a mess.