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    Let Me Sum Up

    Profiling socialites who hate Internet commenters will not solve the problem. Plus: Go Mavs!

    Eric Celeste
    Jan 28, 2013 | 10:23 am

    I’m fascinated by this story that ran Sunday in FD Luxe, the Dallas Morning News’ style magazine. Written by deputy editor Christopher Wynn, it’s an odd profile of a former Dallas socialite who details how she was run out of town by gossips and haters.

    The story on its face seems interesting enough. It features Ana Pettus, a well-known fete set-er whom the Wall Street Journalmade temporarily famous for spending $74,000 on four runway-quality pieces of clothing. It says that the day the WSJ article ran, Pettus’ life began to “implode.” Ostensibly this is because FrontBurner ran a link to this story — hard to find it online otherwise, I suppose? — and the anonymous comments beneath the blog post were nasty toward Pettus.

    Now, according to the story, she lives in Los Angeles, keeps an apartment in Dallas for visiting (like you do), and is working to establish herself in the reality TV production business.

    I like Wynn’s stories, generally speaking. (Here’s a favorite.) But this profile is just so weird in its premise that I have to point out why it disturbs me.

    One, it takes as its launching point the idea that the FrontBurner comments were the catalyst for Pettus’ exodus to LA, where presumably people are kinder to socialites. Such logic calls to mind the Simpsons episode where the Radioactive Man filmmakers are run out of callous Springfield and arrive by bus to a warm, welcoming Hollywood.

    “We know you don't have any more money left, but that doesn't matter,” they are told. “Just take whatever you need from our boutiques until you can get back on your feet.”

    Two, the story suggests said comments ruthlessly focused on the “alleged” financial woes of Pettus’ husband’s company. Except those woes aren’t so alleged. The company was going through bankruptcy during the days when the WSJ pointed out Pettus spent a year’s salary on four garments. I believe even Sheriff Branford would say that is germane to this situation.

    Three, only after the story chastises Internet trolls for saying catty things about poor Ms. Pettus does it reveal that she divorced said husband after his company underwent said financial woes. Although it also suggests that she sold her University Park home because Dallas is so mean — not because, you know, of the previously detailed habits of often spending tens of thousands of dollars on clothing coupled with her divorce from a husband whose company went through bankruptcy while she was making these purchases that are so high-profile they made the front page in the Wall Street Freaking Journal.

    Four, as if you couldn’t see this coming: Do you see the comments on the FD Luxe story? They are more personal and just as (more?) harsh than the ones on the benign Frontburner post. Yes, they have first and last names attached. So? This makes them more tolerable to someone who says her life came apart from such comments in the first place? Please.

    The fact is, this person wants the spotlight for a life lived vacuously — and more power to her, by the way; wish I could afford to do just that — but none of the vitriol that always comes from such decisions. Yes, Internet commenters are by and large ridiculous. I stopped reading them on my stories about two years ago. Learn to do the same. And, if you don’t want the spotlight, don’t participate in stories where you’re buying $74K worth of clothing or pose with your cleavage filling the page.

    Final pro tip: Don’t post pics of your two Sunday meals at Chateau Marmont on your Twitter feed the day the story runs. IJS.

    On our second round at Chateau Marmont... instagr.am/p/VA2KTLSuoT/

    — Ana Pettus (@AnaPettus) January 28, 2013

    Elsewhere

    If you were subjected to this Kathleen Parker column about women in combat, I’m sorry. To cleanse its silliness from your mind, read former Dallas writer Gretel C. Kovach, who reports regularly on the military, on why it's important and sensible for women to be allowed on the front lines.

    Really good Associated Press piece detailing how Texas ISDs have done a wonderful job shooting themselves in the foot when they try to make the case for more funding.

    Prep yourself for Rick Perry’s State of the State address. Do a shot every time he says “abortion.”

    The Dallas Mavericks have won six of their past eight games. Of course I was at the most recent blowout loss. Because I’m a cooler in the game of life.

    Retweets

    I like this sunglasses-wearing weatherman.

    It was 67 in Dallas this morning -- 2nd warmest low ever recorded here in January, after 68 degrees in 2008. Just FYI. shar.es/CdT4u

    — Robert Wilonsky (@RobertWilonsky) January 28, 2013

    Tip: Don’t post pics of your meals at Chateau Marmont on Twitter the day the story runs about how you were run out of town by gossips and caddy commenters. IJS.

      
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    Voting News

    Dallas City Council May 2025 election results in 2 runoffs

    Teresa Gubbins
    May 4, 2025 | 10:54 am
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    A new Dallas City Council was elected at an election on May 3, with two seats that will require a second runoff vote.

    According to figures from Dallas County, the total turnout was 70,187 votes, with 68,701 in person and 1,469 by mail.

    Nearly 50 candidates ran for the city's 14 districts. Out of those 14 districts, 10 had incumbents that were all re-elected for another two-year term.

    Of the remaining four districts where a new council member had to be elected, two were successful:

    • District 4, the southern Dallas seat previously occupied by Carolyn King Arnold, was won by Maxie Alexander.
    • District 6, the west Dallas seat previously occupied by Omar Narvaez, was won by Laura Cadena, Narvaez' chief of staff.

    Two will have to be determined in runoff elections. (In order to win, a candidate must earn 50 percent of the votes.):

    • District 11, covering Far North Dallas, previously occupied by Jaynie Schultz, will go to a runoff between Bill Roth and Jeff Kitner.
    • District 8, the southeast Dallas seat vacated by Tennell Atkins, will go to a runoff between Lorie Blair and Erik Wilson.

    The biggest turnouts were in north Dallas, in Districts 11, 12, and 13.

    DALLAS CITY COUNCIL RESULTS
    Here's the 14 districts, with total votes counted and winners in bold:

    District 1: 4,039 votes

    Just south of downtown Dallas, includes North Oak Cliff, Bishop Arts

    • Chad West - incumbent: 2,374 or 59%
    • Katrina Whatley - realtor: 1,582 or 39%
    • Jason Vanhof - tech sales: 83 or 2%

    District 2: 2,305 votes
    Weird propeller-shaped district extends from Love Field on the West, through Deep Ellum, to Casa View on the east

    • Jesse Moreno - incumbent: 2,073 or 90%
    • Sukhbir Kaur - repeat candidate: 232 or 10%

    District 3: 2,923 votes
    Southwest Dallas

    • Zarin Gracey - incumbent: 1,589 or 54%
    • Jesseca Lightbourne - assistant professor at UNT Dallas: 479 or 26%
    • John Sims - repeat candidate, owner of a podcast/radio studio in Oak Cliff 585 or 20%

    District 4: 2,971 votes
    South Dallas. Seat vacated by Carolyn King Arnold who has reached the end of her term and cannot run again, despite her efforts.

    • Maxie Johnson, pastor and DISD board of trustees representative: 2,228 or 75%
    • Kebran W. Alexander, Dallas County Sheriff Department employee and returning candidate who ran in 2018: 635 or 21%
    • Avis Hardaman, teacher: 108 or 4%

    District 5: 1,585 votes
    Far southeast Dallas

    • Jaime Resendez - incumbent: 1,329 or 84%
    • Elizabeth Matus - Health Unit Coordinator at Children's Medical Center: 256 or 16%

    District 6: 2,109 votes
    West Dallas, with seat left vacant by Omar Navaerz, who has reached the end of his term.

    • Laura Cadena, Navaerz' Chief of Staff: 1,064 or 50%
    • Monica Alonzo - former council member prior to Narvaez: 522 or 25%
    • Machelle Wells - flight attendant and minister: 201 or 10%
    • Linus Spiller - success coach and repeat candidate: 137 or 6%
    • David Blewett - one-term council member, but in in a different district (District 14): 106 or 5%
    • Gabriel Kissinger - "filmmaker": 23 or 1%
    • Nicholas "Nico" Quintanilla, youthful entrepreneur: 21 or 1%
    • Tony Carrillo - return candidate who ran in 2017 and 2023: 21 or 1%

    District 7: 2,642 votes
    Far east Dallas, just south of I-30 including Buckner Terrace

    • Adam Bazaldua - incumbent: 1,497 or 57%
    • Jose Rivas Jr. - deputy ombudsman: 436 or 17%
    • Cydney Walker - repeat candidate and host of Coffee & Politics talk show: 379 or 14%
    • Brian O'Neil Hesson - community activist: 209 or 8%
    • Lamar "Yaka" Jefferson: 110 or 4%

    District 8: 2,700 votes
    Far southeast Dallas, finally vacant now that Tennell Atkins has reached his term limit.

    • Erik Wilson - one-time city council member, running again: 1,129 or 42%
    • Lorie Blair - current member of the Zoning & Planning commission: 1,056 or 39%
    • Subrina Brenham - income tax professional, repeat candidate who ran in 2021 and 2023: 262 or 10%
    • Eugene Ralph - son of "Christian conservative" Eugene Ralph, is pro Proposition U, requiring Dallas to hire hundreds more police officers: 129 or 5%
    • Eliza Ruth Steward - has worked as a notary: 61 or 2%
    • Davante Peters - community organizer, return candidate: 43 or 2%

    District 9: 3,947 votes
    Northeast Dallas, Lakewood

    • Paula Blackmon - incumbent: 3,094 or 78%
    • Ernest P. Banda - served on the Red Light Camera commission in 2014: 853 or 21%

    District 10: 3,763 votes
    Northeast Dallas, Lake Highlands

    • Kathy Stewart - incumbent: 3,537 or 94%
    • Sirrano Keith Baldeo - litigious eccentric repeat candidate ran in 2019 and 2023: 226 or 6%

    District 11: 6,178 votes
    North Dallas/central — left vacant by Jaynie Schulz who chose not to run for another term.

    • Bill Roth - Lake Highlands lawyer who sued over an affordable housing project: 2,984 or 48%
    • Jeff Kitner - COO at North Dallas Chamber of Commerce, bicycling and schools advocate: 2,781 or 45%
    • Kendal Richardson - motivational speaker: 213 or 3%
    • Mona Andy Elshenawy - health care professional: 200 or 3%

    District 12: 5,845 votes
    Far North Dallas

    • Cara Mendelsohn - incumbent: 3,729 or 64%
    • Marc Rossouw - accountant and financial advisor: 1,775 or 30%
    • Jose Cavazos - poet-philosopher, anti-war & climate crisis activist: 341 or 6%

    District 13: 7,457 votes
    North/northwest Dallas

    • Gay Donnell Willis - incumbent: 4,860 or 65%
    • Diane Benjamin - the realtor in favor of "taking the liberal Marxist trash out in Dallas County and the city of Dallas": 2,597 or 35%

    Diane BenjaminDistrict 13 loser Diane Benjamin, once dressed up in an Indian outfit to portray U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren.Facebook

    District 14: 2,099 votes
    Downtown and Greenville Avenue

    • Paul Ridley - incumbent: 2,099 or 100%
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