Two candidates running for Allen mayor in upcoming election

Dave Shafer and Chris Schulmeister are running in the mayor’s race. Mayor Baine Brooks isn’t running for another term.

Shafer was previously elected in 2021 to the council Place 5 seat but lost his reelection bid to the current member, Carl Clemencich, in a runoff election in 2024. He lists public safety, proactive maintenance and fiscal discipline as priorities on his campaign website.

The Texas Observer reported that after the shooting at the Allen Premium Outlets in 2023, Shafer posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he was uncertain that the shooter held Nazi views. KERA reported that the gunman, Mauricio Garcia, included a Nazi symbol in his signature when he applied for a security guard license with the Texas Department of Public Safety in 2015. Authorities also said that Garcia had a swastika and SS tattoo.

“I definitely condemn the shooter, and any belief he had,” Shafer said in the social media post. “However, based on his other supposed tattoos and information reported in the press, I cannot say for certain he held Nazi views. I of course condemn any race-based ideology, including Nazism.”

He also retweeted a video comparing the LGBTQ pride flag to Nazi flags.



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