Dallas place 14 council race is not the only one with many candidates. Remember San Jose place 7 council open seat where three candidates of Vietnamese descent are running, saw this in the San Jose Mercury News:

"Taking out nominating papers were: Andrew A. Diaz, 62, a perennial council candidate; Ramon Duran, a 41-year-old small-business owner; Madison Nguyen, 30, a Franklin-McKinley school board trustee; Rudy Rodriguez, 47, a public-affairs specialist for State Farm Insurance; a woman who goes by the name Mahealani, 52, who works for the Silicon Valley Workforce Investment Network; Bob Dhillon, 62, a former San Jose planning commissioner; Buu Thai, a field representative for Assemblywoman Sally Leiber, D-San Jose; attorney Linda Nguyen, 28; and Beth Gonzales, 54, an Oak Grove High School history teacher.

Zandria L. Elbert, 27, has filed a notice of candidate intention statement with the city clerk."

A good summary by the League of Women Voters of Dallas on why you should vote NO on the strong mayor city charter amendment, present to voters on May 7th in the form of the petition by Beth Ann Blackwood.

It appears that congressman Jim Langevin of Rhode Island, a prolife Democrat is considering a run to challenge incumbent Republican senator Linicoln Chafee, who I know is a RINO and I think is pro-abortion. Even though rumors have it that Langevin may have a chance of defeating the incumbent, the Democrats are out to make sure he does not run because he's prolife, and that is unacceptable for them.