Don’t California my Texas? Too late | Opinion
Contributor Dallas Cothrum writes that a good chicken fried steak shouldn't be the only difference between Dallas and California.“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” may be the most famous sentence in the English language. In Texas, however, the seminal sentence came from Larry McMurtry’s, when he remarked, “Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
No wonder Californians can settle in Dallas with such ease. Dalifornia started before they arrived, and someone left the light on for them. Dallas Country last voted for a Republican for statewide office, David Dewhurst, in 2010. Since 2004, Dallas County has voted Democratic in each presidential cycle, and the percentage gain continues to grow — nearly two-thirds in 2020.
Looking back at my now more than 20 years lobbying at Dallas City Hall , the 2008 gas drilling controversy marked a dramatic shift in city priorities and the start of Dalifornia. Despite signing a $19 million mineral lease with Trinity East, the Dallas City Council in a divided vote denied the zoning requests. This year, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals awarded Trinity East $33 million because the city had made a regulatory taking.
Institutional knowledge has been eliminated and both purposefully and zealously replaced by outsiders to the city. Poor morale and leadership have eroded what was one of the best professionally managed cities in the country.
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