Dallas Votes Against Strong Mayor Proposition

[derby378]

Voters in Dallas Saturday night overwhelmingly rejected a proposal that would have given the mayor more power.

More than 60 percent of city residents voted against the ballot proposition to shift the city's power from the council and city manager to the mayor.

Attorney Beth Ann Blackwood had gotten the proposal on the ballot by collecting tens of thousands of signatures, a rarity in Dallas. Officially known as the Blackwood proposal, it called for overhauling sections of the city charter to create an empowered mayor, common in big cities such as New York and Chicago.

But many people referred to it as "strong mayor" because it would have done away with the city manager's job and allow the Dallas mayor, rather than the city manager or council, to hire and fire public employees, draft the municipal budget and appoint most of the city's hundreds of board and commission members.

http://www.nbc5i.com/news/4462877/detail.html

[TahitiNut]

1. Texas: Weak Mayors and Weak Governors

Given their most recent "chief executives," I can sure understand why. Indeed, I can't disagree at all.

[derby378]

2. No "hip dictatorship" for Laura Miller

At least, not this year.

[Straight Shooter]

3. Smart move. Maybe the Dallas citizens sniff something in the wind.

Something that's drifted over from Crawford ...