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METROPOLIS

Voter Guide

On Saturday, May 6, locals will elect an expanded Fort Worth City Council.

BY EDWARD BROWN

Voters on the North and Near East sides will elect the first councilmembers ever for newly adopted Districts 10 and 11. While Fort Worth City Council opted to control the redistricting effort rather than allow a citizen-led commission to redraw districts, the process that involved extensive resident input ensured minority representation would not be diluted in the final map.

District 11 includes much of the predominantly Hispanic community along Hemphill Street formerly represented by business-friendly District 9, meaning a minority councilmember from the new zone is likely.

In recent months, grassroots groups and progressive candidates have been agitated by the youngish city council’s failure to adopt a civilian oversight board for Fort Worth police as other major cities have, and candidates from both sides of the political spectrum have publicly blasted the elected representatives for reducing public comments to biweekly forums. Conservatives see the upcoming election as an opportune time to install culture warriors battling so-called woke ideology.

Mayor

As a voting member of Fort Worth City Council, the mayor has no more political power than councilmembers but can rely on the mayoral title to sway public sentiment. Mattie Parker was elected to the position two years ago after serving as chief of staff for former mayor Betsy Price.

In her time in office, Parker has engaged the community, much like her predecessor. Her focus on public safety, economic development, and supporting entrepreneurs, among other initiatives, has largely placed her policymaking outside the partisan divide. Last year and following the Tarrant County primary that saw Tim O’Hare beat Price, Parker publicly distanced herself from the Republican party she previously associated with. She cit-

ed hyper-partisanship within the GOP and lies fabricated by O’Hare and his primary campaign as her main reasons for bucking the GOP. Parker’s staunch support for law enforcement has made her the target of criticism from left-leaning groups, meaning her main base of support may lie with moderates.

Ken Bowens Jr., a business owner and self-described Independent Party candidate, cites improved infrastructure, affordable economic development, and public safety as his top priorities. Jennifer Castillo is the first Latina to run for Fort Worth mayor. The Air Force veteran and real estate business owner prioritizes lowering property taxes, expanding affordable

housing, and supporting businesses.

Political activist and cashier Alyson Kennedy ran for Dallas mayor in 2019 and is a member of the Socialist Workers Party. Military veteran Adrian Smith’s top goals if elected mayor include supporting childhood literacy, lowering property taxes, improving police/community relations, and ensuring equitable development across Fort Worth.

Fort Worth Districts 2 through 11

District 2 incumbent Carlos Flores is running unopposed for the area that includes the Stockyards and historically Hispanic neighborhoods along North Main Street.

The third-generation Fort Worthian was first elected in 2017.

Real estate broker Michael Crain, who was elected in 2021 to represent District 3, which covers much of the West Side, is also running unopposed.

The race for District 4, which encompasses far North Fort Worth on the east and west sides of I-35, will field two candidates. Community volunteer Teresa Ramirez Gonzalez is a former Fort Worth police officer and self-described Christian conservative. Her campaign focuses on public safety, reducing government spending, revitalizing underserved communities, and supporting veterans. Gonzalez is running against Charles Lauersdorf, an active-duty Marine who unsuccessfully ran for State District 113 representative in 2018. His top areas of political focus include improving public safety, curbing property tax increases, and promoting infrastructure projects and development.

Heavily Black District 5, which includes most of Fort Worth’s East Side, has been represented by Gyna Bivens since 2013. Candidate Bob Willoughby, a frequent speaker at city meetings and vocal critic of Mayor Parker, has unsuccessfully run for the seat multiple times. Pastor William McKinley Jackson, who heads Samaria Baptist Church, is an advocate for public investments in communities and clean neighborhoods.

District 6 incumbent Jared Williams bested Jungus Jordan two years ago, overcoming substantial Fort Worth police union ads favoring Jordan, to represent far south and southwest portions of Fort Worth. Small business owner Italia De La Cruz is running to unseat Williams with a platform promoting quality of life, low taxes, small business, and limited government. Como resident Tonya Carter is a frequent vocal critic of over-policing in her neighborhood. Her other political priorities include lowering taxes, raising low wages, helping the homeless, and providing access to produce and healthy food in Black neighborhoods.

District 7 represents some of the city’s wealthiest communities just west of downtown and largely conservative and white communities in Northwest Tarrant County. After serving only two years, Councilmember Leonard Firestone is not seeking reelection. Insurance agency owner Caleb Backholm’s website lists public safety and cleanliness as his top areas of focus. U.S. Army combat veteran Jason Ellis aims to promote lower property taxcontinued on page 6

In two years, Mayor Mattie Parker has garnered criticism from the left (for her staunch support of Fort Worth police) and the right (from her public rebuke of Tarrant County Tea Party misinformation campaigns).

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es, support small businesses, and provide resources to meet growing infrastructure needs.

District 8, which includes large swaths of southeast Fort Worth, represents historically Black Polytechnic Heights. Incumbent Christ Nettles, a pastor and day care owner, is running unopposed.

District 9 represents downtown, much of the Near Southside, and diverse neighborhoods on the Southside. Elizabeth Beck is seeking reelection against three strong candidates. Former assistant district attorney Pamela Boggess says through her website that she supports lowering property taxes, keeping families safe, and supporting small businesses. Through his website, Jason Peña cites his top priorities as reducing crime and taxes and taking on “radical” politicians. Software developer Chris Reed is seeking his first elected position through District 9 with a platform focusing on better training of Fort Worth’s workforce, empowering small businesses, and carefully planned development.

Newcomer District 10 includes far north Fort Worth. Two candidates — former District 4 city councilmember Alan Blaylock and home inspector Brandon

Jones — are competing for the new seat. Jones plans to address traffic issues while ensuring zoning serves the needs of his constituents if elected, while Blaylock says protecting the quality of life for locals will be his top job as councilmember.

Fort Worth’s new District 11 represents much of south Fort Worth and many majority Hispanic neighborhoods like Worth Heights and Rosemont. Small business owner Christopher Johnson is looking to fill District 11’s seat, and his campaign is advocating for expanded mental health services and civilian police department oversight. Jeanette Martinez volunteers for several civic organizations, and her key talking points cover economic development, public safety, and property taxes. Longtime Hemphill Neighborhood resident Ricardo Avitia is an outspoken critic of business-friendly zoning and gentrification that he says prices out poor Hispanic families. Rick Herring, who grew up in the Riverside area, is an advocate for empowering neighborhoods to improve their quality of life by engaging city officials and participating in the zoning process. Tara Wilson, an emergency room nurse, is centering her messaging on addressing homelessness, poverty, and mental health. l

Ricardo Avitia has made combatting gentrification along Hemphill Street a central focus of his campaign for District 11 councilmember.

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METROPOLIS

School Board Voter Guide

Beware of dark money

— and candidates with children who don’t even go to school in their own districts.

BY STATIC

As a rule, in politics, you can’t trust anyone without some skin in the game. Rule No. 2 is, you can trust them only as much as that skin is worth or how expendable it is. As anyone who’s been to a casino can tell you, money comes and goes. There’s no emotional attachment there, so to see how much skin a politician really has in a school board race, it’s best to do some emotional accounting. Children, friends, time spent serving the community — all that is irreplaceable. When choosing school board candidates — the trustees we trust to protect the future of our children — that’s the money to follow.

Given the heated controversy involving book bans, gun control, vouchers, and teacher shortages, there is much at stake in this year’s election, and it’s even more

pronounced since at least one far-right company pumps tons of dark money into local school board elections. In last year’s vote, cell phone provider Patriot Mobile and its Super PAC Patriot Mobile Action

spent $2 million supporting far-right candidates, and 11 of them won. Following the national trend, Patriot Mobile’s goal is to dismantle public schools so that privatizing education is the only option, which

would severely limit or completely thwart upward mobility for millions of mostly minority students. Because racism, duh. All these Patriot Mobile clowns and their trustees/minions are whiter than rice.

People in the business of buying and selling property are also playing a role in school board elections. The Texas Ethics Commission says Realtors donated more than $390,000 to right-wing candidates last election cycle alone. Apparently, when test scores influence where families choose to live, Christian Nationalists would rather sabotage their own public schools than expose what’s been really going on in the classrooms. Or, y’know, help their kids score higher on tests, but that would require a respect for knowledge and information that has somehow eluded these fake Christians/non-fake Nazis thus far.

Vouchers were not popular in the lege this session, so now the right is focused on the “Guardian Rule” that would require all teachers to carry handguns in class. Never mind that nearly every school shooting is conducted with an assault-style firearm that sprays clouds of bone-shattering bullets. But, sure, a handgun fired by a fortysomething mother of two who just learned how to load the thing should do the trick. Since conservatives never offer any solutions, just hot air, the book bans and the CRT nonsense are just distractions from real problems. One of the biggest is that Texas spends $4,000 less per pupil than the national average. The state is to blame for this, not the federal government. Fed funds make up about 7% of per-pupil spending whereas state and local governments comprise more than 90% of the total. It makes sense that in a red state, continued on page 8

Anti-endorsement: Do not vote for these reptiles.

public school students would be so underserved. The right’s entire philosophy is “Fuck them poor darkies, we’re eating.” Though there’s no way to verify, we’d bet a shiny gold bar plucked from the belly of the Titanic ’s remains that every Republican politician’s kid goes to a private school. Every one. Private schools as private businesses mostly have no standard

of education/accountability, so it seems we have entered into a new era, one where the rich get richer but also dumber at a steady pace until the meaning of capitalism has gone entirely through the looking glass into a postmodern definition of theft, indifference, and lethargy.

One school district taken over by Patriot Mobile’s Christian Nationalists is Carroll. Grieving parents in Southlake are now watching their children suffer as the second richest town in Texas crumbles under the weight of a massive debt created by Patriot Mobile’s hand-picked trustees and their imaginative bookkeeping. The school district recently sent out a newsletter to middle-school parents stating

that their kids would be double-blocked this year, meaning they will be forced to learn the same accelerated math and language arts curriculum in half the time due to a teacher shortage. As expected, Carroll teachers actually make disturbingly less than their peers in surrounding areas like Fort Worth. According to job posts on Indeed, Carroll teachers start out at $15/hour whereas Fort Worth’s bring home a whopping $36. For all the money flowing in and around Southlake, you’d think the city would take care of the people in charge of their most prized possessions for most days, every day. But you would be wrong. It’s no wonder educators are resigning en masse from Carroll.

The Fort Worth school district is not immune to the Patriot Mobile virus. The company sent out mailers endorsing Patricia Carlson for District 2, Valarie Navarez for District 3, and Josh Yoder for District 5.

If you have a brain and a heart, do not vote for any of them under any circumstances.

Carlson is running against incumbent Tobi Jackson, who has 13 years of experience as a trustee and a high-transparency public presence. She is highly involved with the district and runs the after-school program SPARC. In a recent print interview, the 74-year-old Carlson, who co-owns a business with her husband but would not disclose its name, believes in vouchers a la Greg Abbott and, when asked how she would resolve disagreements among fellow trustees, said, “Absolutely!” #uhwhat?

Quinton Phillips is the incumbent in District 3. He is a professor at TCU and runs an empowerment after-school program for kids in the community. He has a high-transparency public presence and is a proud graduate of his district. Patriot Mobile-backed challenger Navarez is 22 years old, has no experience, and has a mostly private social media account, showing only church endorsements. Martayisha James, 27, is also running against Phillips. She is president of an environmental coalition and has lived in the district for 18 years.

In District 5, Carrie Evans is the incumbent. Evans, 45, is a lawyer and has served on the board for five years. She is being challenged by Kevin Lynch, 41, who has very little public presence and is the dad of five kids not enrolled in the district. The Patriot Mobile-backed Yoder wants to make sure all teachers are packing heat. The only thing on his social media is bragging that his PAC outspent the Dems and advocating for book bans and Jesus.

In Keller, incumbent Beverly Dixon will defend her place against yokel Chris Coker, who is proud of pulling his kids out of the district when COVID happened and is a fan of book-banning, guns in schools, and, yes, vouchers. Dixon is the ideal candidate. She is a Navy vet of 21 years, mom of two kids in the district, and is heavily — and we mean heavily — involved in the Keller community. She has countless endorsements by administrators who vouch for her work and love her generous spirit on her social media page as well as many videos and pictures of her being honored by the community for her volunteer work. Coker sent out a message about her letting kids get hurt by “woke” politics, and everyone in the community had a good laugh about that.

Basically, there are some red flags when considering which locals will represent us on our school boards. No public service experience? Red flag. No public presence? Red flag. No kids in the district that the trustee hopes to represent? Yewj red flag. Endorsed by Patriot Mobile? Don’t even go there.

The election is Saturday. Get movin’. l

This column reflects the opinions of the editorial board and not the Fort Worth Weekly To submit a column, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@FWWeekly. com. He will gently edit it for clarity and concision.

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