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    Election News

    More than 40 candidates file to run for 2023 Dallas City Council election

    Teresa Gubbins
    Feb 20, 2023 | 2:50 pm
    Dallas City Hall.

    More than 40 candidates are vying to work in this building.

    Photo courtesy of PCF

    The next election for Dallas City Council election is May 6, and 43 candidates have filed to run for office.

    Two representatives - Adam McGough and Casey Thomas - have reached the end of their term limit, leaving those districts open to a new council member. One council member, Cara Mendelsohn, is running uncontested, as well as Mayor Eric Johnson.

    All 14 council districts will be on the ballot for two-year terms.

    Place 1 - Oak Cliff

    • Chad West - incumbent
    • Mariana Griggs - teacher, neighborhood activist, ex-wife of former council member Scott Griggs
    • Albert Mata - former telecom engineer, Hispanic advocate

    Place 2 - Deep Ellum, Love Field, Casa View

    • Jesse Moreno - incumbent
    • Sukhbir Kaur

    Place 3 - Southwest Dallas, vacant seat left by Casey Thomas

    • Zarin Gracey - director of the Office of Business Diversity for city of Dallas
    • Joe Tave - radio host and return candidate who ran in 2017
    • August Doyle - previously worked for city of Dallas in code, public works, and recycling, and DISD teacher
    • Denise Benavides - former president of LULAC Grand Prairie who has a nonprofit, ran in 2019
    • John Sims - entrepreneur, owner of a podcast/radio studio in Oak Cliff

    Place 4 - South Dallas

    • Carolyn King Arnold - incumbent
    • Jamie Lynn Smith - accountant and first-time candidate

    Place 5 - Far southeast Dallas

    • Jaime Resendez - incumbent
    • Yolanda Faye Williams - former city council assistant, repeat candidate
    • Terry Perkins - retired pastor, return candidate who ran in 2021

    Place 6 - West Dallas

    • Omar Narvaez - incumbent
    • Tony Carrillo - return candidate who ran in 2017
    • Monica Alonzo - former council member defeated by Narvaez
    • Sidney Robles-Martinez - community activist and elections political consultant

    Place 7 - Far east Dallas, Just south of I-30

    • Adam Bazaldua - incumbent
    • Okema Thomas - community activist and get-out-the-vote advocate
    • Tracy Dotie Hill - realtor and loan officer
    • Marvin E. Crenshaw - repeat candidate
    • Delmar Lamar Jefferson - one of two twin brothers running for office (his brother Jrmar filed to run for Mayor)

    Place 8 - Far southeast Dallas

    • Tennell Atkins - incumbent
    • Subrina Brenham - income tax professional and return candidate who ran in 2021
    • Davante Peters - community organizer, return candidate who ran in 2021 and 2019 (in District 3)

    Place 9 - Northeast Dallas, Lakewood

    • Paula Blackmon - incumbent
    • Kendra Madison - marketing professional, Houston transplant

    Place 10 - Northeast Dallas, Lake Highlands, vacant seat left by Adam McGough

    • Sirrano Keith Baldeo - litigious and eccentric, was a candidate in 2019
    • Brian Hasenbauer - marketing professional, one-time City of Dallas Community Development Commissioner
    • Katherine Stewart - lawyer and former director of Uptown Dallas, Inc.
    • Chris Carter - wasted taxpayer money with lawsuit to keep Confederate monuments, got thrown out of neighborhood meeting by cops
    • Barbara Markham - former police officer in The Colony

    Place 11 - North Dallas/central

    • Jaynie Schultz - incumbent
    • Candace Evans - founder of Candy's Dirt real estate blog, return candidate

    Place 12 - Far North Dallas

    • Cara Mendelsohn - incumbent

    Place 13 - North/northwest Dallas

    • Gay Donnell Willis - incumbent
    • Priscilla Shacklett - realtor, developer, poll watcher anxious about "voting fraud"

    Place 14 - Oak Lawn, Greenville Avenue, downtown Dallas

    • Paul Ridley - incumbent
    • Amanda Schulz - AKA Amanda Tenpenny Schulz, former Parks Board appointed by David Blewett (who lost to Paul Ridley)
    • Joseph Miller - retired engineer

    Place 15 (Mayor) - City of Dallas

    • Eric Johnson - incumbent

    The candidate filings are here. Candidates who ran in 2021 are here, and candidates who ran in 2019 are here.

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    Associated Press
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    The Texas cannabis industry is safe.

    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed a bill Sunday to ban all THC consumables, allowing the booming market flush with THC-infused vapes, gummies and other products to continue to be sold across the state.

    Abbott, a Republican, waited until the final moment to veto the bill in what would have been one of the most restrictive THC bans in the country and a significant blow to the state’s billion-dollar industry.

    The law would have made it a misdemeanor to own, manufacture, or sell consumable THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, products and was the latest push by states to regulate THC after a 2018 federal law allowed states to regulate hemp, a similar plant to marijuana that can be synthetically processed to produce THC, the compound giving marijuana its psychoactive properties.

    Loopholes in existing law have allowed many THC-infused goods to enter the market across the country, including states with strict marijuana laws.

    Texas has some of the strictest marijuana laws in the country, prohibiting all recreational use and providing a limited medical marijuana program. The consumables market has allowed residents to legally access goods giving a similar high to marijuana.

    Republican lawmakers have criticized the products as dangerous due to a lack of federal oversight in how the goods are manufactured. Texas’ ban is one of the more far-reaching among states that have taken similar steps. Several states, including California, have imposed age limits and restrictions on the potency of THC products.

    Critics of the Texas bill say it allows people who cannot access marijuana through the state’s medical marijuana program to acquire goods that can provide a similar relief. Many retailers across the state also pointed to the thousands of jobs and millions in revenue the industry brings each year.

    Last year, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed a bill that would have put age restrictions on THC consumables, claiming it would hurt small businesses.


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