"Ed Oakley" is a municipal politician from Dallas, Texas. He served on the city council from 2001 to 2007, and was a candidate for Mayor of Dallas in the runoff election held on June 16, 2007. If he had won, he would have been the first openly-gay mayor of a top ten U.S. city.

In the runoff election, Oakley lost to Tom Leppert by a margin of 58% to 42%.

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I made a promise to craft this, to put something on the ballot. And I've done that. I'm not going to go against my constituents.

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If anyone does not think that a flood is possible in Dallas, I beg to differ. It is not only possible, but could be a reality, just as the models [showed] New Orleans's levee system under certain conditions could fail, and did.

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It is an unused park for the citizens of Dallas, and I think this is the right direction. It would benefit Rowlett, because the economic development would be there. But it would keep the tax base in Dallas.

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You think you can circumvent our authority and our powers. You can't.

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We have a policy, ... If you want to change the policy, go to the committee, go to the appropriate authority.

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You circumvent our authority and our process in this, ... You stood there and said 'I,' 'I,' 'I,' 'my vision,' -- she doesn't know any other pronoun.

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If this weren't Ray Hunt, if this were anybody else the emotions wouldn't be there.

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It's one more slap at Ray Hunt.

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The mayor has let her rage, her distaste for Ray Hunt, cloud her vision. We have a mayor who thinks she can make unilateral decisions that she cannot. This is not a monarchy.

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