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Keep Dallas Safe? How a shadowy political group is trying to manipulate Dallas elections You won’t know who is funding it. A mailer from the group Keep Dallas Safe attacks District 11 City Council candidate Jaynie Schultz.(Jaynie Schultz campaign) 2:00 AM on Apr 29, 2021 CDT If you live in Dallas and you have a mailbox, chances are you’ve gotten some scary mail recently about council candidates from a group calling itself “Keep Dallas Safe.” The material the group is sending is targeting both incumbent council members and other candidates with a false and inflammatory message that gr...

Blackmon insists Keep Dallas Safe knows that rather than defunding law enforcement, City Council actually increased the police department’s overall budget last September. The group also understands that the council’s push to get 95 police officers from behind desks and back out onto neighborhood patrols isn’t anti-public safety, she said. “And yet they still put this stuff out, and they can’t even spell my name right,” Blackmon said. “I mean, it’s like, spell the name right, and maybe we’ll start there.” In an email reply to the Observer's questions, Keep Dallas Safe sa...

A shadowy campaign known only as “Keep Dallas Safe” has been playing politics in Dallas for the past half-year. No one knows who funds the organization, a nonprofit group that can conceal its donors thanks to a rule introduced by the Trump administration in 2020. The people who run the day-to-day operations say their wealthy clients don’t want their names revealed. The group’s donors may be secret, but its stances are clear: City Manager T.C. Broadnax has to go; Mayor Eric Johnson is OK; and a City Council decision to trim the police department’s overtime budget last year is just on...