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Editorial: Towed Porsche reinforces DA Watkins’ loss of trust
![This is the Dallas County district attorney’s office Porsche Boxster after it was left for months on top of the courthouse parking garage. It was eventually towed and sold at auction before the DA’s office bought it back with forfeiture funds.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141029232857im_/http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/20141028-da_porsche_40423912-2-.jpg.ece/ALTERNATES/w440/DA_PORSCHE_40423912+%282%29.JPG)
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Forfeiture funds are supposedly reserved for law enforcement purposes. In District Attorney Craig Watkins’ reasoning, this includes buying back a legally towed drug car.
Timothy Egan: This is the Disgust Election
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How did we lose our democracy? Blame the U.S. Supreme Court, the author says
Regina Montoya: Images of Vickery Meadow are a reminder of Dallas’ poverty problem
![The Vickery Meadow neighborhood, where Thomas Eric Duncan was visiting in Dallas.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141029232857im_/http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20141028-ns_02ebolaapart4nh_40091805.jpg.ece/ALTERNATES/w440/NS_02EBOLAAPART4NH_40091805.JPG)
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Don’t worry about Dallas’ image; worry about our impoverished, she says.
![This is the Dallas County district attorney’s office Porsche Boxster after it was left for months on top of the courthouse parking garage. It was eventually towed and sold at auction before the DA’s office bought it back with forfeiture funds.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141029232857im_/http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/20141028-da_porsche_40423912-2-.jpg.ece/ALTERNATES/w140/DA_PORSCHE_40423912+%282%29.JPG)
Editorial: Towed Porsche reinforces DA Watkins’ loss of trust
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141029232857im_/http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20141028-px2958c.jpg.ece/ALTERNATES/w140/px2958c.jpg)
Timothy Egan: This is the Disgust Election
![The Vickery Meadow neighborhood, where Thomas Eric Duncan was visiting in Dallas.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141029232857im_/http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20141028-ns_02ebolaapart4nh_40091805.jpg.ece/ALTERNATES/w140/NS_02EBOLAAPART4NH_40091805.JPG)
Regina Montoya: Images of Vickery Meadow are a reminder of Dallas’ poverty problem
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