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...
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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.
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It ends up getting torn down. I don't think it has a viable use.
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.
authority process stood
You circumvent our authority and our process in this, ... You stood there and said 'I,' 'I,' 'I,' 'my vision,' -- she doesn't know any other pronoun.
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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.
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We're giving the citizens what they wanted, what they asked for.
authority change
We have a policy, ... If you want to change the policy, go to the committee, go to the appropriate authority.