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
Published in
FrontBurner
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 our way, and it’s the City Council that will decide how to spend it. You know where the candidates are getting their campaign money, and whether they’re getting it the right way.