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instantTEA
Cedar Springs area drops out of
Dallas'top TO crime hot spots
The Wycliff-Lemmon hot spot that encompasses
Dallas' gay entertainment district will get more surveil-
lance cameras, bait cars and license plate readers,
but not as soon as originally expected.
The Wycliff-Lemmon Target Area Action Grid, pre-
viously called the Cedar Springs-Wycliff TAAG and
the Maple-Wycliff TAAG, ranks No. 11 for overall
crime, according to numbers obtained by Instant Tea
from Dallas police. Therefore it will not have the new
technology added by early summer, when the top 10
spots will be equipped.
The TAAG stretches from Maple Avenue to Lem-
mon Avenue and from Oak Lawn Avenue to Kings
Road.
The technology is part of a new police initiative
sought to fund additional cameras and bait cars for
the city's 27 hot spots.
Although the Wycliff-Lemmon hot spot ranked No.
7 for overall crime in 2012 in mid-April, the rankings
combined last year's totals with this year's crimes
through April, leading to it missing the No. 10 spot by
34 offenses.
Police want to increase the number of cameras by
300 in the hot spots, as well as add 28 bait cars and
28 license plate readers by the end of the year. So,
while Wycliff-Lemmon won't have added policing de-
vices by the summer, it will be next in line when work
on the other hot spots begins.
— Anna Waugh
DailasVoice.com/Category/Instant-Tea
Anti-gay mailer targets GOP
Commissioners Court candidate
Log Cabin Republicans alleges that Larry Miller, a
candidate for the District 1 seat on the Dallas County
Commissioners Court, sent out an anti-gay cam-
paign mailer last week attacking his opponent in the
Republican Primary, Cecile Fernandez.
Fernandez, a former Dickey's Barbecue executive,
appeared at a Log Cabin meeting earlier this year
and subsequently told Dallas Voice she supports of-
fering domestic partner benefits to county employ-
ees. The mailer obtained by Log Cabin, shown
above, quotes the Voice's article and declares, "Ce-
cile Fernandez Supports Spending Your County Tax
Dollars to Pay for 'Partnership' Benefits. ... Does Ce-
cile Fernandez reflect YOUR values?"
"I have the unhappy task of informing you that the
political tactics used in the District 1 race for the Dal-
las County Commissioners Court have hit a new
low," Log Cabin President Thomas Purdy said in a
statement Friday, May 18. "This week, an anti-gay
mailer from the Larry Miller campaign slimed its way
into the mailboxes of Republican households across
Dallas County."
Miller, a former Hunt County district attorney,
couldn't immediately be reached for comment. Last
week, Fernandez alleged that Miller planned to send
out a "cruel" mailer containing the details of a nasty
divorce she went through years ago — a claim which
Miller's campaign denied.
Several Democrats are also vying for the District 1
Cecile Fernandez Supports Spending Your County
Tax Dollars to Pay for "Partnership" Benefits
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LBGT = Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender
ecile Fernandez reflect YOUR values?
seat, which is currently held by Republican Commis-
sioner Maurine Dickey. Dickey is retiring and the dis-
trict was redrawn to be majority Democratic.
UPDATE: Miller said in an email responding to our
inquiry: "There is nothing 'anti-gay' about our mailer. I
do not believe taxpayer money should be used for
partnership benefits and my opponent is on the
record in favor of taxpayer support of those benefits.!
have attended many Republican meetings and met
many voters who agree with my position."
— John Wright
BearDance presents Dallas Bears
with $30Kfrom this year's event
The guys of BearDance outdid themselves this
year. Last year, the nonprofit organization, which
hosts its Big D party during Texas Bear Round Up,
raised more than $21,000 for Dallas Bears' benefici-
aries.
On May 20, they presented the community group
a check for an astounding $30,000 from this year's
March event. The following was posted on the BD's
Facebook page:
Thanks to a great collaboration between the Dallas
Bears who put on Texas Bear Round Up and Bear-
Dance and all of our volunteers, we were able to
make a $30,000 donation to the Dallas Bears which
will be passed through 100 percent to their desig-
nated beneficiaries this year including Youth First
Texas, the Greg Dollgener Memorial Fund, and AIDS
Interfaith Network. And thanks to all the amazing
guys who came out to the biggest BearDance we've
ever had this past March!
BD founder Mark Trimble said ticket sales were up
25 percent with a count of 1,660 tickets sold, making
it the largest BearDance to date.
— Rich Lopez
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