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Following the Money in Dallas City Council Campaigns


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) ar ....

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Sentencing Law and Policy: Noticing some notable criminal justice panels at CPAC 2021


Noticing some notable criminal justice panels at CPAC 2021
As highlighted by this NPR preview, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) kicks off tonight and concludes Sunday with former Prez Trump giving his first big speech since leaving office. Though there are lots and lots of storylines surrounding this year s CPAC, and I was intrigued to see a few criminal justice reform programs appearing on the CPAC 2021 agenda. 
Notably, one theme for various CPAC panels is the Bill of Rights, with Senator Mike Lee slated to give a speech tomorrow morning titled Why the Left Hates the Bill of Rights. and We Love It.   But it is not exactly clear that the CPAC folks really loves ALL of the Bill of Rights: the CPAC agenda has a whole lot more folks slated to speak about those parts of the Bill of Rights that primarily deal with civil rights rather than criminal defendant rights.  For example, the Fifth Amendment panel on the first day has four participants focu ....

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Letters to the Editor - The Republican Party, Texas Legislature, Parkland caregivers, Rep. Van Taylor, McKinney mayor, Sen. Ted Cruz


Letters to the Editor
Opinion
Letters to the Editor - The Republican Party, Texas Legislature, Parkland caregivers, Rep. Van Taylor, McKinney mayor, Sen. Ted Cruz
Readers defend the Republican Party, worry about Texas Legislature being fair in redistricting, praise Parkland’s caregivers, appreciate what Van Taylor and Mayor George Fuller are doing for McKinney and claim wrong actions should have consequences.
From left, nurses Kelsey O’Meara, Noelle Hackfeld, and Joanna Pless review an intubated COVID-19 patient’s oxygen levels at the Tactical Care Unit at Parkland Hospital on Feb. 10, 2021, in Dallas.(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)
GOP not that divided ....

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