Dale Davenport, Man of Mystery? No, Mayor, He’s Just a Car Wash Owner
“Tuesday I talked to Mayor Mike Rawlings about the car wash on MLK Boulevard that I have written a lot about lately — well, a lot about over the last eight years, as a matter of fact. It’s the one the city recently threatened to take by eminent domain.
We did settle one point. The mayor said he had not seen the city’s letter to car wash owner Dale Davenport when his spokesman, Sam Merten, talked me a couple weeks ago and suggested the letter was not an eminent domain threat. Since then both he and Merten have reviewed the entire package sent to Davenport and they agree it was an eminent domain threat.”
Schutze, Dallas Observer 12 December 2013.