Our city council representative, Delia Jasso, has done such a fine job on the Council that she had no opponent in our recent election. (Last time, there were a slew of opponents campaigning for the open seat left when Elba Garcia was term-limited; Delia ended up winning her seat in a runoff election). Delia grew up in what would become her city council district, and knows the needs of our community better than anyone. She always votes to support funding for "Real Dallas" issues like schools and local arts groups. So with her victory "in the bag," we concentrated on getting David Kunkle elected.
David Kunkle ended up in a runoff with Mike Rawlings, so it's back to work helping him get over the finish line on June 18. Watch for us in our Kunkle shirts, coming soon to your neighborhood to ask for your vote!
Besides our own Delia Jasso, our favorite council member is Angela Hunt, who researches everything the council votes on, making sure the taxpayers aren't going to get stuck for some expensive boondoggle. Supposedly, she's for "raising taxes," which isn't true (ask James to explain the math--since our property values went down, the latest "tax increase" wasn't really an increase, it just kept our tax payments the same. Plus, the people asked for a tax increase at one town hall after another, begging council to let us pay a few pennies more per year to keep the libraries, rec centers and pools open!)
This year, Angela Hunt faced four challengers, but won with 67% of the vote! Because of term limits, this will be Angela's final term on the Council, and we wish her all the best in her continual quest to protect Dallasite from gas drilling, toll roads and expensive things taxpayers shouldn't be paying for.
And last, but certainly not least, there's Scott Griggs, a Real Dallas hero, who surprised everybody by beating incumbent Dave Neumann, taking 58% of the vote.
When we think of Scott Griggs, we think of dumpster diving--if the dumpster has been scraped clean, lined with a protective sheet, and filled with cool clean water on a hot summer day. I hadn't heard of dumpster pools until a local magazine ran an article about it, so I thought Scott Griggs invented the unique solution to beating the summer heat in underserved communities. Not so! Turns out, it's a national trend, and dumpster pools can even be found lining Park Avenue in New York City! So while it's not unique to Dallas, the dumpster pool trend is certainly the kind of "Real Dallas" solution we're looking for, especially as the city seems hellbent on closing all the recreation centers and pools every summer. We welcome Scott Griggs, problem solver and pragmatist, to the Dallas City Council, and wish him a long, productive tenure on the Council.
