Subject: Brint Ryan

• New Candidate Joins Race To Replace Mitchell Rasansky on Council

  As we mentioned here a couple months ago, Ann Margolin seemed like a tough candidate to beat in May for Mitchell Rasansky's open city council seat. However, comments she made to us about a certain $520 million boondoggle may have sparked Mayor Tom and others to find someone who will fall in line and play nice. Enter Brint Ryan, founder of Ryan, one of the largest tax firms in the country. Ryan's campaign will be managed by Leppert's ally, Allyn & Company, and his treasurer is familiar too,

  December 9, 2008

• One More in a Neverending Series: Brint Ryan Talks City Budget Deficit, Convention Center Hotel, Trinity Project and Much, Much More

  Brint Ryan is hoping a big bank account, a high-priced consultant and 20 years in accounting will be enough to knock off Ann Margolin in the fight for the District 13 council seat.Editor's note: From now till the May 9 city council elections, Unfair Park will attempt to profile every candidate running for office. Today, Mr. Merten catches up with the taxman.Back in September, we said the race to replace District 13 council member Mitchell Rasansky (who's leaving because of term limits) was all b

  February 26, 2009

• Who's No. 1? Dallas City Council Candidates Pick Ballot Positions.

  Sam MertenPauline Medrano and Sheffie Kadane were two of only three (Vonciel Hill was the other) incumbents who showed up this morning.City Secretary Deborah Watkins and her staff this morning in the Flag Room at City Hall announced the ballot positions for the May 9 city council elections, as Billy MacLeod, Victoria Walton, Tiffinni Young, John Jay Myers and Anita Dade gained an early leg up on the incumbents in their respective district races by nabbing the top spot. Ann Margolin was able to

  March 10, 2009

• Ryan, Margolin Accuse Each Other of Misleading Voters in District 13 Council Race

  Things have gotten nasty between Ryan and Margolin in the battle to replace term-limited Mitchell Rasansky.Brint Ryan in a press release urged fellow city council candidate Ann Margolin to stop misleading voters by campaigning on a senior tax issue that has already been proposed by City Manager Mary Suhm and the Dallas City Council. Ryan cited campaign materials sent out by Margolin, which tout her support of raising property tax exemptions for seniors to $100,000. "Our homeowners are looking

  March 30, 2009

• Brint Ryan Makes Good on His Threat to Sue Fellow Council Candidate Ann Margolin

  Last week, when District 13 city council candidate Ann Margolin started circulating to the media a copy of a $482,337.09 federal tax lien filed by the Internal Revenue Service against Brint Ryan, who's also running for Mitchell Rasansky's soon-to-be-vacated seat, I contacted the IRS for further explanation. At the time, Clay Sanford, who handles media relations for the IRS's North Texas Region office, said he couldn't discuss Margolin's allegations: "Federal disclosure regulations prohibit IRS e

  April 30, 2009

• Hotel? No Hotel? Hard to Say, as Early Voting's Split Darned Near Right Down the Middle.

  One of the city of Dallas's official renderings of the convention center hotelMerten and Pulle are out; Schutze is about. They'll offer their reports from hotel shindigs pro and con -- and, just maybe, some council member throwdowns -- later in the night, as Dallas County Elections begins kicking out returns from the day's vote. But till then, the early-voting results are in, and, as of 7 p.m., the Vote Yes faction is out in front by hair's breadth, with 19,048 votes -- or 50.51 percent of the v

  May 9, 2009

• A 200-Vote Margin for the Hotel Is Now Closer to a 2,000-Vote Margin

  The convention center hotel, now the frontrunnerWaiting for the boys to call in, as no doubt the mood's shifted at both The Loft at Gilley's and Tucker on Ross Avenue just a bit. Because, with 427 of 534 precincts reporting, the margin's grown wider in the pro-hotel faction's favor: 39,506 (51.28 percent) who voted for the convention center hotel, as opposed to 37,539 (48.72 percent) who cast their lot against. That's a 1,967-vote margin, if my chisembop is correct.Proposition 2's all but dead:

  May 9, 2009

• And It's Only Getting Closer: Hotel Race Now Separated By, Oh, 200 Votes

  Perhaps Carol Reed was right about closing strong: With 79 of 534 precincts reporting, the Proposition 1 race is only getting tighter -- separated by a mere 207 votes now. At the moment, the pro-hotel faction has taken the teensy-weensy lead with 22,481 votes, or 50.23 percent of the vote. Which mean CATOH has thus far scored 22,274 votes, or 49.77 percent. Pulle sends this missive from the pro-hotel's shindig:Mayor Tom Leppert, looking a bit nervous and tired, just walked into The Loft at Gille

  May 9, 2009

• Finance Reports Confirm What You Already Knew: Harlan Crow and Ray Hunt Are Loaded

  Sam MertenWhat recession? As Harlan Crow told us right after the losing the election and more than $5 million: "I'll get over it before I get home."The spending gap between the two convention center hotel campaigns predictably didn't mimic the narrow margin at the polls, as Harlan Crow's $5.2 million anti-hotel effort dwarfed an otherwise impressive haul of more than $1.9 million by three pro-hotel committees. Nearly all of the funding for Crow's campaign came from his company's hotel, the Hilt

  July 17, 2009