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Council member Angela Hunt won't run for mayor
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| Last Edited | TX DEM Feb 09, 2011 01:38pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, February 9, 2011 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Council member Angela Hunt has decided not to run for mayor, saying the timing isn't right for her. She will run to retain her council seat representing Uptown, Oak Lawn and much of East Dallas, she said today.
Hunt said it was a difficult decision not to run but that she did not believe it would be best for the city.
"I think what will be best for Dallas is a mayor who comes from outside the current city council," she said.
She said she has not yet made a decision who to support for mayor, but it apparently won't be council member Natinsky, the only member of the council in the race.
If she had run, Hunt was expected to be a strong candidate. She has built a substantial network of grass roots support, in large part because of her opposition to the Trinity River toll road and her work organizing neighborhoods.
But she was also expected to have difficulty convincing the city's business community and its deep-pocketed power brokers to back her.
Hunt's work against the toll road and her recent vote to raise the city's tax rate by 4.91 cents drew sharp criticism, from those quarters as well as many residents.
Hunt said that she doesn't want to see a mayor who is "the anointed one of the Dallas Citizens Council."
The city is a democracy and not run by a small cabal of businessmen, she said.
Hunt said that she didn't decide not to run because of family commitments.
That question was raised after she stepped back from some of her work at City Hall after the birth of her daughter in April. She asked to be removed from two of four standing council committees to devote more time to her daughter.
"There are millions of women across the country who thrive in leadership roles while balancing being great mothers. I certainly think that's possible," she said.
She added that she hasn't decided what her political future holds or whether she will ever stage a run for mayor.
She said that she knows that this wasn't the right time, however. |
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