DALLAS — At a North Dallas event this summer, Dallas executive Timothy Wilson challenged Beto O’Rourke to step up his outreach to Black voters by engaging them in nontraditional campaign venues — their neighborhoods.
“I told him ‘you have my vote, but I do have a community of people who feel left out — Black and brown people,’” said Wilson, senior vice president of a health management company. “We feel left out of the equation, out of the agenda.”
O’Rourke, the Democratic nominee for governor, liked the idea, and joined Wilson and community leaders Friday for a forum at the Black-owned Kutinfed Barbershop in East Dallas. Organizers dubbed it “Shop Talk.”
