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Podcast: Brother Ben X Podcast
Episode: #27: Davante D Peters Running For Dallas City Council District 3 "To Fight Poverty, Police Accountability" And MORE!
Description: Davante Peters is challenging incumbent Casey Thomas in District 3. Peters is running on a platform of reform including: fair chance hiring and ban the box; police accountability, including establishing a new oversight board; expanding opportunities for and creating more affordable housing units; ending the food desert in South Dallas; fighting poverty; taking action on climate change; and eradicating symbols of the Confederacy in the city. “The time for politics as usual in Dallas District 3 are over,” said Peters. “For decades, we have functioned under a system of political accommodation, where Black leadership used political office to align themselves more closel...