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He owes no polictical favors.He has never been involved in scandal.He is not controversial.He is a REAL public servant. Lowell Cannaday is a candidate for Dallas County sheriff this November and he deverses consideration over the incumbent sheriff. The Dallas County jails have failed inspections 5 times. People say ,who cares? I have to tell you ,we all need to care because it will start costing the taxpayers more money if the Feds take over the jails.When gas is close to $4 a gallon and food pries steadily rising,more taxes is an expense we don't need.This is an opportunity to avoid a potential tax hike to fix the jails,the Federal government way.That will not be a cheap fix. I believe Mr. Cannaday, a former Dallas assistant chief,Irving Police Chief and Irving city council member,Mr. Cannaday is a dedicated public servant that has shown he is both capable and has vision.

Living the High Life in Academic Medical Center Leadership We had posted awhile back about how a not-for-profit, state supported academic medical center, University of Texas- Southwestern Medical Center, had created an "A list" of local notables who were to be given special treatment, including enhanced access to physicians. This seemed to imply some slippage from the institution's mission (see post here). It turned out that the practice may not be unique, but neither is is universal (see this post).

The local television station that uncovered this practice, "CBS 11," has been keeping an eye on the medical center. Late last year it found out its top officials had quite a taste for expensive wine.


Top state officials at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas spent tens of thousands of dollars in donations on luxury wines from prestigious New York wine merchants.

A CBS 11 News investigation of charges to the university's credit cards found that President, Dr. Kern Wildenthal, and his right hand assistant, Vice President, Cyndi Bassel, spent more than $125,000 on wine.

A UT Southwestern spokesman says the state healthcare institution purchased the wine with money from unrestricted donations and not tax funds. John Walls explained the wine expenses in a written statement, 'The purchases from New York dealers were for hard-to-find wines not readily available in local retail shops, which were especially appropriate for individual commemorative gifts and special recognition events.'

The TV station's reporters also found that the Medical Center was using restricted donated funds to wine and dine its top executives, although the funds were meant for very different purposes.

Upon his death in 1986, [Jesse] Brittain left his life savings of more than $390,000 to UT Southwestern. Brittain's endowment agreement specified that the money was to be used 'for the sole purpose of enhancing the business operation of UT Southwestern giving priority to the professional development of personnel in the business operation, including training courses, books, seminars, etc.'

Instead,

CBS 11's hidden camera was there to record how the state university has been using money from the Jesse Brittain Memorial Fund.

The family of the late donor says the money was intended to help train employees and not for what CBS 11's investigation found.

The undercover video captured an annual holiday party held for a select group of the university's business administrators.

The state officials gathered in a luxurious penthouse dining room on the University's North Campus. It is a rarified atmosphere with a half million dollar collection of sleek tables designed by the internationally recognized Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and a breathtaking night vista of twinkling lights on the Dallas skyline.

A white jacketed chef carved slices of herb crusted sirloin from a $450 side of beef. A waiter strolled through the party serving risotto crab cakes that cost $316 and artichoke hearts filled with goat cheese that cost $316.

Tables of silver serving trays filled with specialty appetizers were decorated with large gingerbread houses.

Partygoers bellied up to an open bar where more than $1000 worth of drinks were served.

The party that CBS 11 found in full swing is one of three annual holiday parties that have been paid for with more than $15,000 from the Jesse Brittain Memorial Fund.
In general,


CBS 11's review of financial records obtained under the Public Information Act indicates that more than $40,000 was spent on meals and refreshments which were paid for with money from Brittain's Memorial Fund over the past two years.

Finally, CBS 11 documented how the Medical Center CEO was living high on the hog supported by tax-exempt donations.


Dr. Kern Wildenthal, the President of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, spent tens of thousands of donors' dollars on European trips, meals at five star restaurants, parties and expensive gifts, according to CBS 11's review of the state university's records.

CBS 11 uncovered more than $500,000 in expenses charged over the past two years to credit cards issued to Wildenthal and Cynthia Bassel, UTSW's Executive Vice President for External Relations. Financial records obtained under the Public Information Act indicate that most of the expenses were paid for with money that was donated to the medical institution.

The Southwestern Medical Foundation, the university's fundraising arm, paid for the bulk of the credit card expenses including:
--$533 for a donor dinner at a five star restaurant at the Hotel Meurice in Paris, France, for Wildenthal, his wife Margaret, British opera singer Robert Lloyd and his spouse and Andre Dunstetter, a Parisian social figure with ties to Dallas.
--$783 for Wildenthal's two most recent annual memberships in Mosimann's Dining Club, an exclusive restaurant in London.
--$459 for collectible Woodland Eagle dinnerware, including a platter and four mugs from Crow's Nest Trading Company, for two donors in April of 2007.
--$13,000 for tulip arrangements sent to donors for Valentine's Day over the past two years. A note on the 2007 order instructs the florist to deliver a half-dozen of the arrangements to Wildenthal's home.
etc, etc, etc

Also,


Both Wildenthal and Bassel have charged thousands of dollars to the credit cards for memberships in social and civic organizations. CBS 11's review found that donors' money from the Southwestern Medical Foundation was used to pay for Wildenthal's 2007 membership dues in the Dallas Symphony ($3500); Dallas Museum of Art ($5000); Nasher Sculpture Garden ($5000); British North American Committee ($6000); Dallas Women's Club ($850); and the SMU Town and Gown Club ($140).

As we noted earlier, the UT Southwestern mission statement is [with italics added for emphasis]:


* To improve health care in our community, Texas, our nation, and the world through innovation and education.
* To educate the next generation of leaders in patient care, biomedical science and disease prevention.
* To conduct high-impact, internationally recognized research.
* To deliver patient care that brings UT Southwestern's scientific advances to the bedside — focusing on quality, safety and service.

Somehow, I don't see anything about fancy wines, opulent dinners, and luxurious trips for the top leaders.

Once again, it appears that the leaders of large health care organizations fancy themselves different from you and me. They seem to feel entitled to membership in the power elite, to lead the high life (and not the version from a Miller beer commercial) while leading organizations that are supposed to focus instead on the community and to bring quality care to all patients' bedsides. I have no objection to good pay for people who work hard on behalf of the mission. But it is unseemly for leaders of not-for-profit health care organizations to live like minor nobility while so many health care needs remain unmet.

By the way, it may not be that what the University of Texas - Southwestern Medical Center was doing is unusual. In a summary of the case just published in the Nonprofit Quarterly, Rick Cohen wrote,


As studies from the General Accounting Office and the Congressional Research Service show, these nonprofit indulgences are frequently standard operating practice. The hospital has dismissed all criticisms by pointing out that UT Southwestern’s fundraising and expenditure patterns are right in line with nonprofit hospital practices nationally, including the proportion and nature of expenditures on fundraising including gifts for donors. They further suggest that donors to the UT Southwestern foundation fundraising arm know full well that their donations—classified as unrestricted—will be used for expenses that aren’t particularly focused on medical care or research, but for the CEO’s club memberships, upscale dinners and gifts for donors and bigwigs, and flower arrangements sent to the CEO’s home. Therein may be the real issue, not that UT Southwestern is behaving out of the norm, but that it is exactly within the mainstream of big nonprofit hospitals. And no one seems all that put out, because this is what is expected of big corporate institutions, for-profit, nonprofit, hospitals, universities, corporations, it really doesn’t matter all that much.

So it would surprise me not at all to find out that many executives of many academic medical centers and teaching hospitals are similarly living the high life. This, of course, goes along with many discussions on Health Care Renewal of health care leaders who seem to put their pocketbooks ahead of their patients. If this is as widespread as Rick Cohen and I think it is, why are we wondering why health care is increasingly expensive and inaccessible, while its quality declines, and health care professionals get ever more disgruntled

The following stories,like the following,continue to swirl about but nothing happens? You gotta ask why? This smacks of polictics,money,and cronyism.

Health Care Renewal Monday, March 17, 2008 Living the High Life in Academic Medical Center Leadership

 

We had posted awhile back about how a not-for-profit, state supported academic medical center, University of Texas- Southwestern Medical Center, had created an "A list" of local notables who were to be given special treatment, including enhanced access to physicians. This seemed to imply some slippage from the institution's mission (see post here). It turned out that the practice may not be unique, but neither is is universal (see this post).

The local television station that uncovered this practice, "CBS 11," has been keeping an eye on the medical center. Late last year it found out its top officials had quite a taste for expensive wine.


Top state officials at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas spent tens of thousands of dollars in donations on luxury wines from prestigious New York wine merchants.

A CBS 11 News investigation of charges to the university's credit cards found that President, Dr. Kern Wildenthal, and his right hand assistant, Vice President, Cyndi Bassel, spent more than $125,000 on wine.

A UT Southwestern spokesman says the state healthcare institution purchased the wine with money from unrestricted donations and not tax funds. John Walls explained the wine expenses in a written statement, 'The purchases from New York dealers were for hard-to-find wines not readily available in local retail shops, which were especially appropriate for individual commemorative gifts and special recognition events.'

The TV station's reporters also found that the Medical Center was using restricted donated funds to wine and dine its top executives, although the funds were meant for very different purposes.

Upon his death in 1986, [Jesse] Brittain left his life savings of more than $390,000 to UT Southwestern. Brittain's endowment agreement specified that the money was to be used 'for the sole purpose of enhancing the business operation of UT Southwestern giving priority to the professional development of personnel in the business operation, including training courses, books, seminars, etc.'

Instead,

CBS 11's hidden camera was there to record how the state university has been using money from the Jesse Brittain Memorial Fund.

The family of the late donor says the money was intended to help train employees and not for what CBS 11's investigation found.

The undercover video captured an annual holiday party held for a select group of the university's business administrators.

The state officials gathered in a luxurious penthouse dining room on the University's North Campus. It is a rarified atmosphere with a half million dollar collection of sleek tables designed by the internationally recognized Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and a breathtaking night vista of twinkling lights on the Dallas skyline.

A white jacketed chef carved slices of herb crusted sirloin from a $450 side of beef. A waiter strolled through the party serving risotto crab cakes that cost $316 and artichoke hearts filled with goat cheese that cost $316.

Tables of silver serving trays filled with specialty appetizers were decorated with large gingerbread houses.

Partygoers bellied up to an open bar where more than $1000 worth of drinks were served.

The party that CBS 11 found in full swing is one of three annual holiday parties that have been paid for with more than $15,000 from the Jesse Brittain Memorial Fund.
In general,


CBS 11's review of financial records obtained under the Public Information Act indicates that more than $40,000 was spent on meals and refreshments which were paid for with money from Brittain's Memorial Fund over the past two years.

Finally, CBS 11 documented how the Medical Center CEO was living high on the hog supported by tax-exempt donations.


Dr. Kern Wildenthal, the President of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, spent tens of thousands of donors' dollars on European trips, meals at five star restaurants, parties and expensive gifts, according to CBS 11's review of the state university's records.

CBS 11 uncovered more than $500,000 in expenses charged over the past two years to credit cards issued to Wildenthal and Cynthia Bassel, UTSW's Executive Vice President for External Relations. Financial records obtained under the Public Information Act indicate that most of the expenses were paid for with money that was donated to the medical institution.

The Southwestern Medical Foundation, the university's fundraising arm, paid for the bulk of the credit card expenses including:
--$533 for a donor dinner at a five star restaurant at the Hotel Meurice in Paris, France, for Wildenthal, his wife Margaret, British opera singer Robert Lloyd and his spouse and Andre Dunstetter, a Parisian social figure with ties to Dallas.
--$783 for Wildenthal's two most recent annual memberships in Mosimann's Dining Club, an exclusive restaurant in London.
--$459 for collectible Woodland Eagle dinnerware, including a platter and four mugs from Crow's Nest Trading Company, for two donors in April of 2007.
--$13,000 for tulip arrangements sent to donors for Valentine's Day over the past two years. A note on the 2007 order instructs the florist to deliver a half-dozen of the arrangements to Wildenthal's home.
etc, etc, etc

Also,


Both Wildenthal and Bassel have charged thousands of dollars to the credit cards for memberships in social and civic organizations. CBS 11's review found that donors' money from the Southwestern Medical Foundation was used to pay for Wildenthal's 2007 membership dues in the Dallas Symphony ($3500); Dallas Museum of Art ($5000); Nasher Sculpture Garden ($5000); British North American Committee ($6000); Dallas Women's Club ($850); and the SMU Town and Gown Club ($140).

As we noted earlier, the UT Southwestern mission statement is [with italics added for emphasis]:


* To improve health care in our community, Texas, our nation, and the world through innovation and education.
* To educate the next generation of leaders in patient care, biomedical science and disease prevention.
* To conduct high-impact, internationally recognized research.
* To deliver patient care that brings UT Southwestern's scientific advances to the bedside — focusing on quality, safety and service.

Somehow, I don't see anything about fancy wines, opulent dinners, and luxurious trips for the top leaders.

Once again, it appears that the leaders of large health care organizations fancy themselves different from you and me. They seem to feel entitled to membership in the power elite, to lead the high life (and not the version from a Miller beer commercial) while leading organizations that are supposed to focus instead on the community and to bring quality care to all patients' bedsides. I have no objection to good pay for people who work hard on behalf of the mission. But it is unseemly for leaders of not-for-profit health care organizations to live like minor nobility while so many health care needs remain unmet.

By the way, it may not be that what the University of Texas - Southwestern Medical Center was doing is unusual. In a summary of the case just published in the Nonprofit Quarterly, Rick Cohen wrote,


As studies from the General Accounting Office and the Congressional Research Service show, these nonprofit indulgences are frequently standard operating practice. The hospital has dismissed all criticisms by pointing out that UT Southwestern’s fundraising and expenditure patterns are right in line with nonprofit hospital practices nationally, including the proportion and nature of expenditures on fundraising including gifts for donors. They further suggest that donors to the UT Southwestern foundation fundraising arm know full well that their donations—classified as unrestricted—will be used for expenses that aren’t particularly focused on medical care or research, but for the CEO’s club memberships, upscale dinners and gifts for donors and bigwigs, and flower arrangements sent to the CEO’s home. Therein may be the real issue, not that UT Southwestern is behaving out of the norm, but that it is exactly within the mainstream of big nonprofit hospitals. And no one seems all that put out, because this is what is expected of big corporate institutions, for-profit, nonprofit, hospitals, universities, corporations, it really doesn’t matter all that much.

So it would surprise me not at all to find out that many executives of many academic medical centers and teaching hospitals are similarly living the high life. This, of course, goes along with many discussions on Health Care Renewal of health care leaders who seem to put their pocketbooks ahead of their patients. If this is as widespread as Rick Cohen and I think it is, why are we wondering why health care is increasingly expensive and inaccessible, while its quality declines, and health care professionals get ever more disgruntled

 

 

Texas Speaker of the House ,Tom Craddick needs to go! His lack of leadership and vision continues to cost Texas taxpayers money with his lack of leadership. While he has been speaker,he allowed his wife to collect donations from lobbyists wirth business before the Texas House that he could give priority , votes and help pass legislation and approve large contracts.His wife collected in excess of $3 million to rennovate the speaker's quarters in the Texas State Capitol where they live at the expense of taxpayers. He is heavily involved with lobbyists and has allowed a lobbyist friend to use Craddick's name and position on a demand letter to a fishing trip in the Amazon where they were trying to get their deposit refunded ,even though the agreement clearly stated "no refunds". Craddick accepts donations in bulk from lobbyists to the extent he has been able to donate $250,000 to several state representatives campaign funds in an effort to gain their votes to put Craddick back in the Speaker's role,a very powerful position in the Texas legislature.Politics are "crooked" enough without knowingly placing someone with a questionable character be placed in a position of power.

Please see "Nonprofit Hospitals, Once For the Poor, Strike It Rich" in the 4/4/08 on-line edition of the Wall Street Journal.  It's an all too common phenomenon in Texas as we witness the proliferation of VIP lists within the UT system. An excerpt:

However, much of the industry's profit growth comes from strategies it honed to increase profits. Among them: demanding upfront payments from patients; hiking list prices for procedures and services to several times their actual cost; selling patients' debts to collection companies; focusing on expensive procedures; and issuing tax-exempt bonds and investing the proceeds in higher-yielding securities.

Please see "Nonprofit Hospitals, Once For the Poor, Strike It Rich" in the 4/4/08 on-line edition of the Wall Street Journal.  It's an all too common phenomenon in Texas as we witness the proliferation of VIP lists within the UT system. An excerpt:

However, much of the industry's profit growth comes from strategies it honed to increase profits. Among them: demanding upfront payments from patients; hiking list prices for procedures and services to several times their actual cost; selling patients' debts to collection companies; focusing on expensive procedures; and issuing tax-exempt bonds and investing the proceeds in higher-yielding securities.

Gasoline is $3,30 a gallon,Milk is $3.50 a gallon,bread is $1.79 a loaf and your raise was 2% as a line employee.The boss got a 10% increase.Your health insurance premiums went up and so did your car and homeowner's insurance. You have cut the entertainment,food and clothing budgets and you are looking for a second job to supplement your income.You keep seeing that college tuition is going up yet again.It looks like your straight A child who wanted to go to a state institution will have to opt for alocal community college and work. You know he won't be able to to keep his grades as high,but student loans are drying up. Less than half of all high school students are graduating from urban schools now.

You look at the parking garage and see the big boss parking his Mercedes in his reserved parking space he didn't have to pay for,but your parking fees went up again this year and you have to pay. He strolls into the building in his $1000 suit ,while you remember that half of your wardrobe came from WalMart and the other part from the resale shop.You realize you are lucky to have a job because they laid another person off last week and their work got redistributed and you got your share.

People are losing their jobs,their homes and their hope at a record pace and look for hope in a new Federal government administration.They make great promises but there are no poor politicians.Only poor voters.The middle class is shrinking and no one seems to notice.You pay your social security deductions all year,but the boss on;ly has to pay until he makes his $92,000 gross salary,or before March.The wealthy have more options to shelter cash and income from taxes. The shrinking middle class has a limited option,pay the taxes.

There are now 28 million Americans on food stamps.When will the middle class get their share of the food stamp program? Soon,I'm afraid.

This year when you vote,look closer at the candidate and not the party. The party collects the funds to run the ads to convince you to vote for a party. Do something different this year. Vote for yourself by voting and by voting woth information and not the best commercial.

Too many time we want to call ourselves Democrats or Republicans. Why? Is your party affliation as important as who you are voting for? Ever get into that voting booth and go "who the heck is that?". Do you read the Dallas Managed News and vote for those they recommend? Let's make our votes count by voting for the person,the one that clearly identifies with our individual standards and values. Voting a straight party ticket ,often puts the wrong person in a job they are unable to do and "on the job training" costs taxpayers. This year try something new.Reasearcxh the candidates and vote for the most qualified to you.

Doesn't the timing of all of these cancelled flights for inspections of planes that should have already been done seem just the least bit suspicious ? The FAA inspectors were too chummy with Southwest Airlines.  That seems to translate to cash to me . I would suggest to congress and the FBI that they investigate the financial records of those involved in giving Southwest a "pass" on inspections at the peril of passengers. Now we see American and United cancelling flights to go inspections? Over 1000 flights cancelled yesterday. Three airlines went out of business? Doesn't the timing of all of this seem just a little too conincidental to anyone?

Last we read on this enigma known as the "Innner Circle" was the revelation that Rufus and Lynn Flint Shaw were members  and that the contact for minority contractors in Dallas is Willis Johnson. a radio personality in South Dallas. We have also learned tha Mr. Johnson has an office furniture business and some "interest" in other minority owned businesses that are required for Dallas contractors and those of state entities,such as The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.Interesting that Rufus Shaw was the campaign manager for Tom Leppert who was the CEO of Turner Construction,a company that receives a multitude of city and county contracts. We also discovered the well know architectural firm of HKS was achieving their minority contracting goals as promised in their bid documents so the city and county can make their minority numbers and maintain their Federal grants and contracts .It also appears the "Inner Circle" gets a cut of the pie as well.There are many "rumors" that can not yet be confirmed , but open records requests for the minority sub contractors should reveal some interesting details. Why did Lynn Flint Shaw deal with travel? Why would Rufus Shaw tell people he had protrate cancer when he didn't or did he really tell people that? Why didn't Senator Royce West call the police when Rufus Shaw calle dhim and told him these troublesome things? This story is not concluded and I am going to continue to probe until I can find out why there was  even a need for an Inner Circle......Kickbacks?

Three weeks ago, CBS 11 Investigative Reporter ,Robert Riggs was dismissed from his job after investigating and reporting several stories regarding questionable spending by The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and its President,Dr. Kern Wildenthal. When asked why ABC's channel 8's Investigative reporter ,Brett Shipp,didn't persue Wildenthal's spending,his response was candid and,frankly, distubing. Mr. Shipp was asked about bringing in the FBI and the IRS. His response was  that "they may poke about a bit, but they don't have the nads to do anything about someone as polictically connected as Wildenthal."  Mr. Shipp also acknowledged that there was "questionale spending" but that if "all of th epeople that work for Wildenthal cover for him,then what's the point?"  Indeed ,what is the point? The point my friends is that misuse of state funds constitute a  crime. I guess what Mr. Shipp is saying is that  you will never get any justice in this town for people with political clout. Exactly how much clout does Wildenthal have? Why is he not accountable for his actions? No investigations, save Mr. Riggs investigative stories.No one can "touch" this man? Dallas must be a corrupt as New Orleans. It's a good thing Lousianna is close by ,so Texas doesn't look so bad.

Dallas County Sheriff candidate for the Republican Party won the right to run against current Dalls County Sheriff Loopy Valdez on the Republican ticket. Cannaday recently resigned his Irving City Council seat to run for the Sheriff's office of Dallas  County. He was also a former Dallas Police Deputy Chief and the Chief of the Irving Police. Ms. Valdez spent her law enforcement career in a low level Federal position before winning the sheriff's office. In a sheriff's race political party isn't as important as experience and the ability to put credibilty  back into the sheriff's office. With the jail failing the past five inspections, it's time for a change. I would recommend Cannaday as our county's next sheriff. Integrity and experience....

With the deaths of Rufus and Lynn Flint Shaw ,two members of what was part of the Inner Circle was lost. Rufus Shaw was a polctical strategist and Tom Leppert campaign manager for Dallas Southern sector. In emails obatained by the "Dallas Observer" Rufus Shaw and Tom Leppert exchanged the fact that Willis Johnson,a radio personailty in South Dallas, was the "go to man" for anything Southern. Also, Mr. Shaw elaborated that talks had already occured with HKS, an architect that already had contracts with the city and then Turner Construction,where Leppert was once the CEO and had contracts with the city. These talks were to gain subcantracts for minority companies. All the while, Lynn Flint Shaw was a paid consultant of Deloite ,an accounting firm that the DART board voted to give a large contract to with Lynn Shaw voting AND receiving $21,000 for "consulting".It appears that the Inner Circle "helps" minority contractors obtain sub contracts with large contractors and accepts consultng fees in the process. Maybe if you could obtain a copy of Rufus Shaw's 1980 book "How to be a Rich BLEEP" , you might begin to understand Dallas minority politics are played in Dllas,while lining the pockets of those helping others to help themselves, Some of the side businesses of the Inner Circle was office furniture. How many state,couty,and city agencies purchased from the Inner Circle? Who donated to the $60,000 campaign fund of Lynn Shaw when she make a brief run for city council? What happened to the money?

Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick testified this wek that he never read the letter he signed on am Austin lobbyist letterhead threatening to damage the reputation of a m Amazon fishing guide service. Craddick and Bill Messer , a lobbyist and fishing companion, booked a guided fishing trip that clearly advised that "deposits were non refundable" but ,using Craddick's powerful position was the maner in which these two Jonah's were attempting to intimidate the tour guide company into returning the pair's $3800. But, Craddick did pick up a check from former Congressman Tom DeLay's favorite donor for $100,000, Craddick never looked at the amount......

After completing my usual research of candidates for public office, I want to pass along my recommendation for Dallas County Sheriff,Lowell Cannaday. Mr. Cannaday,70 is an former Dallas Police Deputy Chief and Chief of Irving Police with more than 30 years of law enforcement experience. While Jim Boles,79 another Republican has the experience, but he was voted out of office in 2004 due to the scandals involving his poor bidding practices with the jail stores.He was never charged but the vendor in question and a sheriff in another county are both under indictment for their business practices.The Opponent on the Democratic side of things is a former low level Federal employee ,Lupe Valdez. Valdez needed two years too pass her cetification and had to lower the acceptable shooting scores in order to pass. Cannaday is endorsed by both the Dallas Police Association and the Dallas Sheriff Deputies Association. Now you can make an informed decision about the next Dallas County Sheriff...