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Happy A roundup of Easter events in DFW Easter!See Page 8 I am AND I AM ASKING FOR YOUR VOTE. I’m a homeowner and small business owner in Oak Cliff. My family and I bought our first home south of the Trinity River over a decade ago, and we are proud to call Oak Cliff home. I love every single quirky, fun thing about our neighborhoods. I especially love that we’re a tight community – a small town – in the heart of a world-class city. I’m running for City Council because I want to give residents and entrepreneurs the tools they need to succeed, ensure that our diverse neighborhoods and historic structures are protected and cherished, and ensure that opportunities, education, and city services are top notch and available to everyone. LOCAL BUSINESS OWNER, ATTORNEY, AND VETERAN The U.S. Army paid for Chad to go to college and eventually brought him to Texas in 1999. After serving at Fort Sam Houston and later in Bosnia and Hungary, he was honorably discharged as a combat veteran. He attended law school at Texas Tech, graduating with honors Chad opened his law firm in Oak Cliff in 2010 and has won numerous awards for his legal advocacy. He is a four-time D Magazine “Best Lawyer,” an eight-year “Readers Voice Awardee” for the Dallas Voice, a five-year selectee as “Rising Star” for Texas Super Lawyers, and he was selected as the 2012 Dallas Association of Young Lawyers – Outstanding Lawyer of the Year. Learn more at: ChadWestDallas.com | Go West! 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There was no Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence on Fantasha damage to the car that would indicate he had Monday, April 15, about the “gay panic” bill now been in a wreck. There was nothing to indicate working its way through the Legislature. Dallas he was attacked in the car. Rep. Jessica Gonzalez sits on the committee. Lynn said Rodriguez doesn’t remember ast Septem- McDonnell said 12 witnesses testified on HB anything between the time he left the bar and ber, Dallas 3281. Ten were in favor of the legislation that the time he woke up injured in his car. But, Lynn would outlaw “gay panic” along with use of the celebrated added, “I think he must have been somewhere victim’s gender identity or sexual orientation as its 35th an- in Oak Lawn. With the kind of injuries he has, I a defense for murder. When Texas Values Coa- nual Pride don’t think he could have driven himself very far. lition spoke against the bill, one representative “We are hoping that, when the swelling from celebration, said, “You’re always against everything.” the skull fracture goes down, he will be able to complete McDonnell said that with all the publicity remember at least some of what happened,” anti-LGBT bills were getting, it’s good to know with the Lynn added. some positive things are working their way Miller Lite Music Festival and — Tammye Nash the Alan Ross Texas Freedom through the Legislature as well. — David Taffet Parade. Now, in just over a 2 anti-LGBT bills moving in month, we will be celebrating- Round-Up Karaoke host injured Texas House not only the 36th annual Dallas Equality Pride, but the 50th anniversary in assault, facing surgery Texas Interim of The Stonewall Riots. Executive Spurred by yet another po- Director Sam Smoot warns lice raid on the Stonewall Inn, that two of the a gay bar in New York City’s most extreme Greenwich Village, on June 28, anti-LGBT bills 1969, New York’s LGBT com- this session are munity took to the streets for moving in the state House. a series of riots and rallies that That’s despite lasted through July 1. And al- the promise by Oscar “Oz” Rodriguez, a karaoke host at though there had been signifi- Speaker of the the Round-Up Saloon, underwent surgery on House Dennis cant events before then — the Wednesday morning, April 17, at Parkland Hos- Bonnen to stick 1965 sit-in at Dewey’s malt pital following an attack early Sunday morning, to basics like education and property tax relief shoppe and the Reminder Day April 14, that left him with a fractured jaw and a for this legislative session. skull fracture, according to Round-Up Manager protests in front of Indepen- HB 1035 grants special rights to discrim- Adam Lynn. Rodriguez has no memory of being dence Hall each July 4 from inate for people who hold the belief that attacked or how he was injured. marriage is between a man and a woman, and 1965-1969 in Philadelphia and According to information included in a gender is immutable from birth. In other words the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria tures local drag performer Fantasha GoFundMe page set up for him, Rodriguez — if you don’t like the existence of LGBTQ Riot in San Francisco — the Stone- “The Fantastic One” Suggs.