Wait a minute, he's not the mayor. Philip Kingston is just a City Council member from East Dallas. But he's out-mayoring Mike Rawlings by doing all the things a mayor should do. He stands up to the Dallas Citizens Council, for example. (They're the old mossbacks who've been calling the shots in Dallas since before Elvis.) Like the time they told him he couldn't attend their political luncheon, so he went anyway and made them throw him out. That's the kind of cool stuff a mayor should do — stand up for the city and the people who live in it.
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