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A Friend of Unfair Park was saying only yesterday he hadn’t heard much in recent weeks about the upcoming vote to get Dallas wet from folks for or against the off-premise sale of beer and wine citywide. Which reminded me: Whatever happened to election foe Andy Siegel’s plan to take his election-killing writ to the Supreme Court of Texas following 5th District Court of Appeals Judge Elizabeth Lang-Miers’s decision to toss the thing out of her courtroom at the end of August? Checked the court’s website and found nothing. So I called and e-mailed Siegel and asked: What happened? He replied via e-mail last night:
We’ve decided not to appeal at this late date b/c it’s so unlikely a Court would stop an election from going forward. Thus, regrettably, we’ll wait & see how the election turns out & reserve our right to contest a Wet election result. There’s no doubt that the City did not properly call a lawful election. Indeed, the City has refused to provide any evidence that it validated the necessary number of qualified Petition signatures PRIOR to calling an election. … Like it or not, an election called based on a prospective hope or finding of sufficient signatures, is void.
The city, of course, disagrees.
