Zarin Gracey and Joe Tave emerged as the top two vote-getters last month in a five-person race to succeed term-limited incumbent Casey Thomas and represent...
“Just a little bit more of a personal touch would have made a world of difference because a lot of folks know Casey Thomas, but they don’t really know me,” said Gracey, a pastor who has worked for the city, been a policy adviser for Thomas and was endorsed by the incumbent. “I think it was hard for a lot of people to really get a chance to get behind me.”
A runoff involving a single City Council race after the general election has been rare in Dallas in recent years. The last time it happened was in 2003 when Gary Griffith beat Roxan Staff to represent District 9, which covers parts of east Dallas. It was the third time in six years where only one Dallas City Council race still needed to be decided after the general election., which began May 30.
“There’s a lot of distrust. There’s distrust for the sitting council person and anger in terms of how people and individuals have been left behind,” Tave said. “I want to do everything I can to reestablish that trust where people understand that the district doesn’t belong to an individual, it belongs to the people.”
“I stand with the community because this wasn’t done properly, and we got a lot of work to do to make that right,” said Gracey, who is a former assistant director of Dallas’ economic development office and has experience working in other departments such as the budget and comptroller’s offices. He has also served on the City Plan Commission and the Dallas Public Facility Corporation.
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