Ed Oakley
Ed Oakley
Ed Oakley is a municipal politician from Dallas, Texas. He served on the city council from 2001 to 2007, and was a candidate for Mayor of Dallas in the runoff election held on June 16, 2007. If he had won, he would have been the first openly-gay mayor of a top ten U.S. city...
asked citizens giving
We're giving the citizens what they wanted, what they asked for.
congress eventually pick stand state unwind
If we don't do something, I think Congress will eventually unwind the Wright amendment. At least we got them to stand down and not have Congress pick it off one state at a time.
meetings message seem showing start
We don't see any connectivity that makes sense to us. We're going to start showing up at your meetings more, because our message doesn't seem to get across.
authority
You think you can circumvent our authority and our powers. You can't.
decision hard knowing
It's very hard for us to make an intelligent decision without knowing all the facts. There's a lot of misinformation.
bringing downtown half incredibly major pie river until
Everyone has half a pie now and can't do anything until they have a whole pie. With this deal, you're really bringing downtown to the river in two major ways. It's incredibly exciting.
behind huge
It's a huge problem. We're 25 years behind on the improvements we need.
authority change
We have a policy, ... If you want to change the policy, go to the committee, go to the appropriate authority.
five positive understand
It is appropriate, after five years ... for us to understand the ramifications, positive or negative, economic, environmental, traffic, and what have you.
base benefit citizens direction economic park tax unused
It is an unused park for the citizens of Dallas, and I think this is the right direction. It would benefit Rowlett, because the economic development would be there. But it would keep the tax base in Dallas.
best interest stage
I would say it's in his best interest, at this stage of the game.
anybody emotions ray
If this weren't Ray Hunt, if this were anybody else the emotions wouldn't be there,
ends torn viable
It ends up getting torn down. I don't think it has a viable use.
cloud decisions distaste mayor ray thinks unilateral vision
The mayor has let her rage, her distaste for Ray Hunt, cloud her vision. We have a mayor who thinks she can make unilateral decisions that she cannot. This is not a monarchy.