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Hunt ends speculation over mayoral candudacy
Gay candidate James Nowiin
pledges to stay in the District 14
council race to challenge Hunt
FROM STAFF REPORTS
editor@dal!asvoice.com
Dallas City Councilwoman Angela Hunt, a
staunch LGBT ally who represents the heavily
gay District 14, announced this week that she has
decided not to run for Dallas mayor in the May
municipal elections.
Hunt will, instead, run for re-election to her
fourth term representing District 14. Mandated
term limits mean that if she is re-elected, it will
be her last two-year term on the council.
Although candidates cannot officially file to
run in the elections until Monday, Feb. 14, four
District 14 candidates have already filed paper-
work with the city secretary designating cam-
paign treasurers.
One of the four — Jim Rogers — told Dallas
Voice last month that if Hunt decided to run for
re-election to the council instead of for mayor, he
Angela Hunt
would bow out of the race. But another, openly
gay candidate James Nowiin, said this week he
does not plan to withdraw.
James Nowiin
The two other declared candidates for District
14 are Erin C. Lasseter and Vernon Franko.
■ DISTRICT 14, Page 13
FW police chief
enacts anti-bias
policing policy
LGBT leader praises Halstead's
initiative, says ties between city,
LGBT community continue to
strengthen
TAMMYE NASH I Senior Editor
nash@dallasvoice.com
FORT WORTH — Fort Worth Police Chief Jef-
frey Halstead has implemented a new policy ban-
ning "bias-based policing" in his department, and
Fort Worth LGBT Community leader Jon Nelson
this week praised the new policy as "a very posi-
tive move."
"We didn't discuss this with him [Halstead],
Nobody pressured him to do this. He did it on his
own," Nelson said of the new policy, "It's as clear
as it can be. It puts his employees on notice that
they have to act without bias, and there are specific
ramifications if they fail in that. I say, good for
him."
The policy, which Halstead issued Friday, Feb.
4, notes that "bias-based policing is prohibited in
both enforcement of the law and delivery of police
r\
Fort Worth Police Chief Jeffrey Halstead
services."
Any officer who violates the policy can be fired
immediately.
The policy, the full text of which is available on-
line at DallasVoice.com, reads: "Officers shall not
use race, color, gender, age, national origin, reli-
gion, disability, economic status, sexual orienta-
tion, gender expression, gender identity,
transgender status, membership in a cultural
group or an individual's ability/ inability to speak
English as the criteria for determining when or
how to take enforcement action or provide police
services,"
In an e-mail interview this week, Halstead said
that although officers were already banned from
acting on personal bias while on duty, the new
policy is intended to reinforce that ban.
"The policy basically incorporates language lo-
cated throughout departmental General Orders
■ HALSTEAD, Page 13
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DMN bills gay couple $1,034
for unpublished wedding ad
After filing a discrimination complaint against
The Dallas Morning News for refusing to pub-
lish their marriage announcement under "Wed-
dings," a local gay couple reports that they
received a $1,034 bill in the mail for the unpub-
lished ad.
Mark Reed-Walkup, who filed the discrimi-
nation complaint against The DMN after marry-
ing his partner Dante Walkup in Washington,
D.C., says he wrote the following to James
Moroney III, publisher and CEO of the newspa-
per: "Does the DMN always send out invoices
to 'customers' who placed an ad online but it
was never published due to the paper's dis-
criminatory policies? We just received an in-
voice today for our December ad that you
banned from your paper because our wedding
wasn't 'really' a wedding in your eyes. Unbe-
lievable."
Reed-Walkup says Moroney responded as
follows: "Not a good practice. I'll take up with
sales. Thanks for bringing it to my attention."
The director of the city's Fair Housing Office
told Instant Tea recently that officials are still in
the process of reviewing the couple's discrimi-
nation complaint against the DMN.
— John Wright
Block party called a success
Maybe the gays in Dallas are capable of
pulling off a Super Bowl party after all.
Although a gay-themed concert planned for
the Cotton Bowl on Thursday night was can-
celed due to poor ticket sales, organizers of
Saturday night's block party on Cedar Springs
are deeming it a success. Scott Whittall, presi-
dent of the Cedar Springs Merchants Associa-
tion, said while the closed-down street itself
wasn't overly crowded during the event, the
clubs were extremely busy and some were at
capacity.
"The turnout was huge, but it's hard for us
to get a head count because everybody kept
running in and out of the clubs to get warm,"
Whittall said, adding that attendance was defi-
nitely in the thousands.
Whittall said organizers of the Super Street
Party — billed as the world's first-ever gay
Super Bowl block party — were "freaking out"
on Thursday and Friday because they weren't
sure if the weather would clear.
"They had altered the forecast I don't know
how many times for Saturday," he said. "We
didn't know what to expect, especially with all
that snow and ice on the ground Friday. But it
all worked out. I don't even think there was a
patch of ice left on Cedar Springs. Everything
was set up in time. It went off great.
"We're definitely deeming it a success, es-
pecially compared to a lot of the party deba-
cles that were out there last week in the
straight community. I heard that a lot of the
parties around town were not well attended,"
Whittall said. "We had the luxury of the fact
that we have a ton of huge clubs around us
where people can go and get warm. There
was always a pretty good crowd around the
stage. In a warmer weather situation, we will
definitely set the street up like that again."
— John Wright
dallasvoice.com
02.11.11
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