What’s wrong with Siegel

Ed Oakley

The Advocate’s Jeff Siegel is usually a fairly astute observer of the local political scene, but his obvious bias for mayoral hopeful David Kunkle appears to have blinded him. First he mistakenly thought that Kunkle might have latched on to an issue that voters care about when he attached himself to council ethics. Now he so incorrectly calls Ed Oakley “a guy no one has ever heard of” and suggests his endorsement of Kunkle’s runoff opponent Mike Rawlins is meaningless. Someone should tell Siegel (perhaps I’m doing it myself now) that Oakley’s campaign against his successor on the Dallas city council sealed Dave Neumann’s doom and his endorsement of Rawlins, if nothing else, tells the city’s gay and lesbian community who to support in the runoff.