Carrollton’s first Pride event ‘couldn’t have gone better,’ organizer Bob McCranie says TAMMYE NASH | Managing Editornash@dallasvoice.com If I ever suggest getting a bucket of chicken and going to the park for a picnic, knock me in the head,” Bob McCranie said this week, joking about how what started as a simple picnic in a Carrollton park to celebrate Pride Month and encourage people to get out and vote in the city’s runoff election turned into Carrollton Pride.
It really all started with the city elections in early May. The races for Place 1, Place 5 and Place 7 “all had strong chances of going to runoffs,” McCrainie said, and he knew that if that happened, the key to an ultimate victory would lie — as is often the case — in voter turnout