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Supporters of Dallas County district attorney candidate Amber Givens attended her campaign fundraiser Monday at Whiskeys on Exposition Avenue in Dallas.<\/p>\n
Angela Piazza\/The Dallas Morning News<\/p>\n
At her first major campaign event since\u00a0a write-in challenger entered the race<\/a>, Dallas County district attorney candidate Amber Givens urged supporters to\u00a0reignite the energy that led to her surprising victory in the March 3 Democratic primary.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cTonight is about carrying the momentum from March all the way to Nov. 3,\u201d Givens told the dozens of supporters who paid $50 each to attend the rally Monday night at a South Dallas bar. \u201cWe’re not gonna just show up to the polls. We’re gonna flood the polls. Can I hear y’all say flood?\u201d The crowd eagerly responded.<\/p>\n Until a few weeks ago, Givens was the only candidate for the job. Republicans had not fielded anyone for the general election and Givens was preparing her transition. But on\u00a0Aug. 19, longtime Dallas attorney Eric Reed announced he was entering the race as a write-in.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Reed said he shared other lawyers\u2019 \u201cshock and concern\u201d with Givens\u2019 primary upset over\u00a0two-term incumbent John Creuzot<\/a> and decided to challenge her despite the overwhelming odds against him.\u00a0<\/p>\n Write-in candidates are required to run as nonpartisan in Texas. Reed said he identified as an independent and moderate.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cRight now, we\u2019re building our ground game and focused on educating voters on why Eric’s the best choice and how to do a write-in,\u201d Reed\u2019s spokesperson Suzette Brewer said Tuesday in an email to The Dallas Morning News. \u201cWe have several private fundraising events coming up, as well as some speaking opportunities that will give Eric a chance to lay out his case directly to the voters.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Dallas County district attorney write-in andidate Eric Reed and Democratic nominee Amber Givens.<\/p>\n Shafkat Anowar and Elias Valverde II\/The Dallas Morning News<\/p>\n While Reed\u2019s path to victory is extraordinarily steep \u2013 he\u2019ll need to convince hundreds of thousands of voters to write in his name in a Democratic stronghold \u2013 Givens has taken notice<\/a>.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n After his announcement, she stopped referring to herself as district attorney-elect, and her social media posts began urging supporters to \u201cflood the polls\u201d in November.<\/p>\n As she worked her way through the room Monday, Givens smiled and laughed as she stopped to talk with the many lawyers there to support her.\u00a0<\/p>\n Some, like Dallas criminal defense attorneys Tom Cox and his colleague Rebekah Dall\u2019Asen, had backed Creuzot in the Democratic primary.\u00a0<\/p>\n Both lawyers had also been called to testify against Givens at a trial earlier this year before a Special Court of Review at the Texas Supreme Court in Austin to determine whether the former felony court judge should be sanctioned for judicial misconduct. And both were among the dozens of members of the Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association who had alleged Givens was biased against them when they sought to have her recused from cases.<\/p>\n Related: Dallas County DA candidate Amber Givens no longer unopposed after write-in candidate files<\/a><\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n After Givens\u2019 primary win, Cox said he and other members of his law firm discussed how they should move forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe decided the voters have spoken and we need to go to her and apologize and ask how we can make things right,\u201d Cox said. \u201cShe said, \u2018All is forgiven.\u2019 She wasn\u2019t holding any grudges.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Then she quickly put them to work, Cox said, persuading them to host campaign events for her and attend meetings with her and other attorneys.\u00a0<\/p>\n Givens presided over Dallas County\u2019s 282nd District Court for 11 years before she resigned in December<\/a> to run for district attorney.<\/p>\n In July 2025, the State Commission on Judicial Conduct publicly reprimanded and admonished her after members of the Dallas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association filed complaints against her.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n The attorneys\u2019 group alleged that Givens had harshly treated lawyers appearing before her and allowed a staff member to stand in for her during a virtual bond hearing. The commission also determined she had taken action in two criminal cases after she had been recused from them.<\/p>\n Givens appealed, and a trial was held in February before the Special Court of Review, during which she testified<\/a> and denied the allegations. The court in July\u00a0dismissed all sanctions<\/a>. The special court, which consisted of three appellate judges from across the state, said the commission\u2019s lawyers had failed to prove their case against Givens.<\/p>\n As she thanked her supporters for coming Monday, Givens acknowledged that some were not always on her side, and that she was happy to have them join her.<\/p>\n “Some of y’all are day ones. Some of y’all are day twos, threes, fours. It doesn’t matter, right?” she told the group. “We are all in this for the people. 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