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Our recommendation for Dallas City Council District 7
Incumbent Bazaldua faces seven rivals: Brown, Felder, Higgins, Johnson, Parish, Turknett and Varela.
Eight candidates are vying to represent District 7 in the Dallas City Council, a whopping slate for a municipal race and the most packed out of 14 contested council seats in this city. The district covers a stretch of diverse Dallas neighborhoods, from the South Dallas/Fair Park area to Buckner Terrace to Far East Dallas. These neighborhoods have long struggled with disproportionate crime rates, disinvestment and uneven council representation.
The race has become a referendum on incumbent Adam Bazaldua’s handling of Dallas police budget discussions last year in the aftermath of nationwide summer protests against racial injustice. His most formidable challengers are pastor and nonprofit founder Donald Parish Jr. and attorney Calvin Johnson, two longtime community advocates. Both say they are running against Bazaldua because of
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.