Rest in Peace Max Glauben

Max Glauben

The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum announced the passing yesterday of Max Glauben. Glauben was 94.

Max Glauben

Their obituary called him Holocaust Survivor, passionate advocate, cherished friend, and co-founder and lifetime Museum director.

Glauben died Thursday on Holocaust Remembrance Day after a battle with cancer, per holocaust museum executive and president Mary Pat Higgins.

“He embodies resilience. He overcame horrific tragedies that we can’t even imagine. He had a beautiful family, business, was a community leader and devoted almost every waking moment of his time to sharing his history,” Higgins said Thursday. “He really was not ready to concede that cancer was going to win this battle. He fought everything.”

After enduring the worst of humanity, Max dedicated his life to sharing his journey, honoring his family’s memory, and delivering his message to never give up.

The museum is located by Dallas’ historic West End. It opened in September 2019 and completed a forty year dream.

Max Glauben

Glauben was sent by rail road to a concentration camp at age eleven. There both parents and his younger brother were murdered by Nazis.

Max Glauben

Glauben moved to the United States after he was liberated and eventually to Texas.

Beyond the museum walls though, antisemitism in North Texas has been on the rise. Swastikas were painted on a city garage just last year.

Jasmine Crockett Supporter Donald Trump

Jasmine Crockett Supporter Donald Trump

A new wrinkle in the Texas 30 runoff election: Jasmine Crockett supporter Donald Trump. The wrinkle happens as the runoff election is now less than a month away.

Yesterday, Crockett received another $250,000 Super PAC donation from the Washington, DC based Web3 group per FEC records.

Jasmine Crockett Supporter Donald Trump

This group was formed in February 2022 and has offices at the same location as a PR firm that took in hundreds of thousands of dollars to rehabilitate the image of former Trump Centers for Medicare Services Director Seema Verma.

Jasmine Crockett Supporter Donald Trump

Published reports in Politico and The Washington Post detail how Trump and his defenders directed payments of more than $3M dollars away from programs for the elderly and poor towards image rehabilitation for his CMS administrator. Those same dollars are now flowing to the TX30 candidate Jasmine Crockett.

In addition to the millions of out of district Super PAC dollars flowing to Crockett to rehabilitate her image, she has not found the time to open a constituent office since being elected or passing any legislation.

This despite the fact she accused Mayor Eric Johnson and former State Representative Terri Hodge of not passing any legislation either – lies that were easly proven untrue.

Jasmine Crockett Supporter Donald Trump

State legislative bills can be reviewed online.

SuperPAC Dollars Tie Jasmine Crockett Supporter Donald Trump To TX30

It is unclear how many more out of state dollars will flow into the TX30 race, but local endorsements continue for Jane Hope Hamilton.

Crockett nearly won the TX30 Democratic primary outright. It is unclear if runoff voters will continue to vote for her after voting against Donald Trump four to one, but it is clear supporters of Donald Trump are now lining up quietly to support Crockett.

Additionally, some of the same financial supporters of the current State Representative for District 100 appear to have been providing financial assistance to QAnon leader and former Trump cabinet pick General Mike Flynn. In June 2021, Flynn called for a coup while here in Dallas at the For God and Country Patriot Roundup.

Crockett’s office would not return a call on this topic and she has yet to accept an invitation to a debate with her opponent Hamilton.

Dallas Housing Socialism

Dallas housing socialism appears ready to come to Dallas if some get their way.

The City of Dallas is considering limiting property purchases within city limits and may seek state legislation also.

David Noguera, the Director of Dallas Housing said, “Canada restricts how many foreign investors can come into your market and buy up your real estate.”

Dallas Housing Socialism
David Noguera, Director of Dallas Housing

Dallas Housing Socialism

Median prices on housing are up more than twenty percent in th Dallas/Fort Worth market over last year and there has been general sticker shock over the tax bills coming due.

Dallas Councilwoman Jaynie Schultz asked “are we working on a bigger policy regarding the scourge of investment buyers?”

Some are not sure this should be a city council priority.

Mark Fuentes, a local landlord, said “Dallas does not need to follow Canada on anything. We need police to respond to emergencies and city council members to follow their own ethics policy.”

“Why do they want to bring Canada’s socialism to Dallas,” he continued.

Dallas has a poor history of affordable housing issues in part because of repetitive corruptions trials where elected officials were getting rich off federal programs and bribes. These have led in some cases to today’s higher tax bills.

Fuentes said, “Dallas can’t even get its permit office to run properly. Why are they going to restrict how I make a living?”

Sommerman Sinks Supporters

Sommerman Sinks Supporter

Andrew Sommerman sinks supporters in a number of emails released to Facebook by community activist Avi Adelman.

After the March 1 Democratic primary vote, Philip Kingston announced his endorsement of Andrew Sommerman.

Sommerman seeks the endorsement of individuals in public and then trashes them in private.

The move was a surprise to many, but for some activists, a bridge too far and it appears the benefactor of Kingston’s decision thinks it is bad too.

In an email to Avi Adelman, the Sommerman campaign called Kingston “offensive and a bad actor…” in the public sphere.

Sommerman Sinks Supporter

The campaign which appears to be seeking Adelman’s endorsement then goes on to send a message to its team about Adelman calling him a “loud person.” Unfortunately for the campaign, the private message made its way to Adelma who published it.

Sommerman Sinks Supporter

If Andrew Sommerman will attack his own supporters, do you think he cares about individual voters?

Kingston, who finished in what D Magazine called a “distant third” does not seem to have the support of voters or the people he endorses.

Sommerman Sinks Supporters

Sommerman, a local personal injury lawyer, said he chose to run for the County Commission 2 seat because “he doesn’t want political theater to drive public health policymaking.”

But he later won the Dallas Morning News primary endorsement on a platform of arguing for criminals to be released into the community to lower jail costs despite a long recent history of Dallas criminal judges lowering bail to allow dangerous defendants to be out on bond and Dallas police unable or unwilling to respond to local crime.

It is unclear based on Sommerman’s private conversations what he believes.

Adelman’s emails show Sommerman seeks the endorsement of individuals in public and then trashes them in private.

This endorsement controversy makes some Democrats nervous about the newly gerrymandered seat.

One local community person said, “I’ve talked to a dozen people like Avi – people who work the polls, precinct chairs, donors – and they all say the same thing. They will vote for JJ Koch in November if Andrew Sommerman beats Michelle Ocker in May.”

“Sommerman is the worst kind of insider. He sells out his supporters without thinking about it as long as it advances Andrew Sommerman,” she continued. “He is also playing a good old boy club with he and Kingston and Tom Ervin lining up against Michelle [Ocker] who has held elective office and served constituents.”

Another unaffiliated campaign volunteer noted this shows how bad Democratic Party politics is right now.

“If Andrew Sommerman will attack his own supporters, do you think he cares about individual voters?”

In the other major Dallas race, endorsements continue to come in for Jane Hope Hamilton who is hoping to beat Jasmine Crockett in their runoff.

Dallas 911 Dispatch: Too Little, Too Late

Dallas 911 Dispatch

The City of Dallas has multiple questions to answer about the Dallas 911 Dispatch Center after a deaf woman, Zarea Dixon, was found dead in her home when police officers took over an hour to respond to her call for help.

In a separate incident it took more than six minutes to respond to an apartment fire in North Dallas.

Dixon called 911 to report her boyfriend had broken into her apartment along South Polk Street and attacked her with a knife.

An interpreter with Sorensen Translation Services relayed that Dixon had been attacked stating her “ex-boyfriend broke into her house, beat her up and tried to stab her with a knife.”

Dallas 911 Dispatch

Dixon provided the suspect’s name, description and date of birth to the police through the translator. She also said he had left her home.

Dixon “declined an ambulance but stated she ‘needed the police,'” according to the affidavit.

In addition to the non response to this woman, Dallas Police has not responded to multiple other incidents.

Parents complained about Dallas Police protecting white protestors earlier in the school year at Dealey Montessori.

Sources within the police department told Other Side Dallas that police planned to arrest a black led counter protest should it have occured as a threat to public safety, but police did nothing about the interruption to the school day by white parents.

Additionally, Dallas police never took a report on three students burned by fireworks launched at them in North Dallas.

Dallas 911 Dispatch: Fire Side Issues Also

In addition, Dallas Fire Rescue has launched an internal investigation into why it took six minutes to send apparatus to the Forest Hill Apartment firte that becamse a three alarm event.

Dallas 911 Dispatch

Sixty to seventy firefighters responded and saw flames coming from the second floor of the three-story apartment building upon arrival.

The fire quickly spread to the third floor and then into the attic space and roof of the building requiring the additional alarms by Dallas Fire Rescue.

Dallas Fire Station 29 is approximately one mile away or roughly three minutes.

In comments to the media, Dallas Fire Fighters Association President Jim McDade said, “When the first companies got there — there was an enormous amount of fire, probably due to a delay in response,” McDade said.  

There were no deaths or injuries, but more than twenty apartments were destroyed and more than one hundred residents displaced.

Saint Michaels Farmers Market Opens

Saint Michaels Farmers Market

The Saint Michaels Farmers Market opens this weekend to start its season.

Saint Michaels Farmers Market

Forty vendors are anticipated Saturday morning, April 23, 2022.

About Saint Michaels Farmers Market Open

Saint Michael’s Farmers Market is a 501 (c) 3 non profit Farmers Market where local farmers, ranchers and artisans sell directly to our North Dallas neighborhood.

The Saint Michael’s Farmers Market is open weekly on Saturday during the season. Hours of operation are from 8 a.m. until 12 noon.

The farmers market is a non-profit community outreach ministry of Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church.

We are located at Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, 8011 Douglas Avenue at Colgate, Dallas, TX 75225. Location is in the heart of Park Cities, Preston Hollow, and North Dallas.

In late March, White Rock Farmer’s Market opened at its new location.

Dallas Magnets Site Goes Live

Dallas Magnets Site

The Dallas Magnets site launched this week along with a sister Facebook group aimed at bringing news and information for parents seeking the right fit for their student among Dallas Independent School District’s many magnet programs.

Dallas Magnets Site

The site hopes to make it easier on parents to choose between public Montessori and TAG programs, between Townview’s campus programs including Health or Science and Engineering, or Booker T Washington’s arts programs.

Dallas Magnets Site Details

The Dallas magnets site was launched by the Townview Dallas Magnets Foundation after parents repeatedly complained about not having a single location for information on magnet programs, ISD calendar deadlines, and particular information about schools.

The nonprofit does not anticipate things will be busy with the site initially, but expect a strong push by early August, when parents are seeking back to school information that often is updated after the fact on school websites. They are actively adding schools and information to the site using an all volunteer core of parents and community members.

Beto In Dallas

Beto In Dallas

Dallas Democrats had what they wanted. Beto in Dallas yesterday and the press conference was as expected: free drugs, new casinos, and Medicaid expansion.

The Democratic nominee for Governor came out swinging against Governor Abbott on marijuana legalization, opening casinos in Texas, and expanding Medicaid.

Beto In Dallas

He was joined by State Senator Nathan Johnson and City Council District 7 member Adam Bazaldua. The trio addressed local economics, but not the rising crime rate.

Bazaldua has been part of rising taxes since he joined Dallas city council was also a proponent of defunding the police – which has led to more police leaving the job and higher crime rates.

Governor Abbott’s campaign was quick to respond.

“Serial flip-flopper Beto O’Rourke is once again misleading the public,” said Abbott campaign communications director Mark Miner. “Gov. Abbott has reduced property taxes for Texans by over $18 billion since taking office, while Beto O’Rourke has an established track record of increasing property taxes while serving on the City Council in El Paso.”

Beto In Dallas: Another Change In Direction?

O’Rourke who has not spoken openly about legalizing gambling in Texas plans to introduce the plan to lower property taxes which are quickly rising given the influx of new residents seeking Texas’ positive economic outlook.

O’Rourke is not only fighting the national headwinds which show President Biden polling lower than former President Trump at the same time in his administration, but is also facing a Texas Republican Party which has a strong edge in data analytics, messaging, and voter communication efforts that many Democrats refuse to admit.

Love Field Drops Masks Requirement

Love Field Drops Masks

Dallas Love Field drops masks requirement hours after a federal judge in Miami, Florida ruled they were unconstituional. The Dallas Airport wasted no time after given the go ahead by the judge’s ruling.

Love Field Drops Masks

US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle said the mandate was unlawful because it exceeded the statutory authority of the Centers for Disease Control. Her ruling stated it was unconstitutional because of its implementation violated administrative law.

Southwest has been pushing to elimenate the mask mandate for some time, despite Chief Executive Officer Gary Kelly getting coronavirus himself.

The mask mandate itself has led to multiple arrests and assaults on aircraft.

Southwest Airlines, Love Field Drops Masks Plus More

Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, JetBlue, and United all dropped their masking requirements in the immediate hours after the ruling.

There is no indication the Biden Administration will appeal the decision.

No Representation 100

No Representation 100

“No representation 100” is the new phrase being bandied about by Democratic Precinct chairs who recently learned that State Representative Jasmine Crockett did not show up to vote against SB7 in the Texas legislature.

No Representation 100

Crockett is being described by a Washington consultant as dangerous. She is the “poster child for Republicans to run against,” he said.

“Crockett loves being a show horse, but has no stomach for being a work horse,” he continued. “She loves hearing herself speak on CNN about SB1 (Senate Bill 1), but couldn’t show up to vote no.”

In August 2021, Crockett went on CNN saying, “Texas is the hardest state to vote.” It is unclear if she meant for ordinary voters getting to the polls or if she meant elected representatives who don’t show up to work.

The transcript is here.

More To No Representation 100

Crockett is the only state representative to not have a district level office providing constituent service.

Her Chief of Staff Karol Rimmal has openly used the N word which several pastors in South Dallas have said they find offensive.

In addition to the news above it has been revealed that Democrats in Austin found Crockett hard to work with day to day.

Meanwhile her opponent in the May primary run off, Jane Hope Hamilton, has been steadily gathering endorsements from local elected officials. One of the more prominent endorsements came from Senator Royce West.