Carol Reed

A Brazen Attack on Jim Schutze's Hat Cam: Film at 11! No, Wait, Film at Now!

Something happened to me at City Hall today, where I went in hopes of chronicling the mayor's Trinity Toll Road speech. I have really debated with myself about going public with it. But my hope is that if I tell my story, other men who have been through the same thing won't feel so isolated. I was ... More >>

Reliving the Trinity River Toll Road Campaign With Mayoral Candidate Ron Natinsky

Photo by Sam MertenRon Natinsky​In our cover story about the mayoral race, perhaps you read the section about council member Ron Natinsky and noticed a glossing over of sorts when it came to his public comments during the contentious 2007 Trinity River toll road referendum. As is often the ca ... More >>

Carol Reed Dodges Tom Leppert's DOMA Tweet, Predicts Runoff Between Leppert and David Dewhurst and Defends John Wiley Price

Photos by Sam MertenCarol Reed​Political consultant Carol Reed answered questions about the battle for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Kay Bailey Hutchison, the Dallas mayor's race, the 2012 Republican presidential primary and an assortment of local and state issues last night at a meet ... More >>

Is David Kunkle's candidacy for mayor a sign that Dallas is headed in the right direction or that Schutze is off his meds?

From the Right and Left, the "Texas Influencers"

Carol Reed​Many thanks to the several Friends of Unfair Park who've forwarded along Austin American-Statesman PolitiFact Texas's editor W. Gardner Selby's list of Texas Influencers -- which consists of the 50 most-powerful Democrats and Republicans in the state.Not all are presently working in Tex ... More >>

Internet Strategist From Washington With Senate Experience Takes Over Leppert's Web Site and We're Supposed to Believe the Mayor's Future is Still "Up in the Air?"

​On Tuesday, we opined that Mayor Tom Leppert's U.S. Senate campaign was moving full steam ahead regardless of whether Kay Bailey Hutchison resigns before her term expires at the end of 2012. Why? The donations to his mayoral campaign completely dried up in the last half of 2009; his annual fu ... More >>

The Mayor’s Proposal for City Council Ethics Reform Misses its Target: the City Council

The Waters Are Murky as Dallas City Council Seeks Clarity Before Ethics Reform Vote

Sam MertenCouncil member Carolyn Davis talks to zoning lawyer Kirk Williams as Willie Cothrum (right) listens.If nothing else, the city council's hastily planned ethics reform briefing early this morning showed that this group is capable of a spirited debate. For the most part, Mayor Tom Leppert has ... More >>

Before She's Required to Disclose Her Lobbying Efforts, We Take a Look-See at What Carol Reed's Banked From Mayor Leppert

Mark GrahamSure, Woodlief's Allyn Media has brought in about seven times the amount Reed has from Tom Leppert-related campaigns, but Reed remains the queen of consulting.As the city council continues to discuss ethics reform in the aftermath of 23 guilty verdicts in the Dallas City Hall corruption t ... More >>

In the Zoning, or: Someone Dipped Their Dallas City Council in My Ethics Reform.

Carol Reed said to Schutze last month, there's no need for lobbyist registration: Because, look, "anybody knows that when I come down [to Dallas City Hall], I'm getting paid."​The council's talking ethics reform again this morning -- specifically, lobbyist registration, restrictions on campaign co ... More >>

Tooth Marks: The Brawl at City Hall Over Real Ethics Reform Is Only Just Beginning

Patrick MichelsDallas City Attorney Tom Perkins​Angela Hunt is putting the bite on the mayor today on the issue of ethics reform.The council is being briefed on possible new ethics rules growing out of the City Hall corruption case. Council member Hunt and four other members signed a letter a coup ... More >>

What Don Hill's Conviction Means for Dallas

The Dallas City Council is Tackling Ethics Reform Behind Closed Doors. Anyone Else Have a Problem With That?

Lesson learned from federal corruption trial: How to gain access to the portals of power at City Hall

As City Council Considers New Lobbying Rules, We Learn Carol Reed Banked $65,000 From Mayor's Back to School Fair

Brandon ThibodeauxIn case you missed it, Reed was profiled in December 2007 by former Observer-er Matt Pulle.In this week's paper version of Unfair Park, Schutze uses two of Mayor Tom Leppert's top political consultants -- Carol Reed and Mari Woodlief -- to explain why the mayor is hardly the "Angel ... More >>

Up the Sleazy River At the Dallas City Hall Corruption Trial

A Chat with Carol Reed is Worth $10k? Let’s Hope She Speaks Really Slowly.

Up the Sleazy River At the Dallas City Hall Corruption Trial

Five Council Members Lobby for Transparency at Dallas City Hall. Good Luck With All That.

Psssst, Carol Reed, they're talking about you ... ​Five Dallas City Council members want the city to think about requiring people to register as lobbyists if they get paid to influence the council. The ongoing Dallas City Hall federal corruption trial has brought a series of revelations about s ... More >>

The Biggest (and Funniest) Revelations So Far in the Federal City Hall Corruption Trial

Carol Reed​Everybody knew it was about "pay-to-play" at City Hall. Don Hill, a former city council member and 13 alleged confederates are accused of strong-arming real estate developers for money.But nobody knew...1. Carol Reed's name would come up. Reed is the top political guru and campaign cons ... More >>

Latest Lesson from the City Hall Corruption Trial: When You Ask the City Attorney for an Ethics Opinion, Check With the FBI Too

Reeds Confirmed as "High-Priced Lobbyist" Pushing to Allow Car Booting Without Receipts

Save Deep EllumUpdated at 3:07 p.m. As we mentioned yesterday, the freshly inaugurated city council is set to approve a booting ordinance after the Economic Development Committee voted unanimously June 16 to put a modified version of the staff recommendation on tomorrow's addendum. This didn't mak ... More >>

Mayor Tom Leppert: "I Can Tell You Tonight the Winner is the Dallas Taxpayer."

Patrick Michels"The message tonight is Dallas is moving forward," said Mayor Tom Leppert as the crowd here at Gilley's roared in approval. The votes still aren't all in, but, said the mayor, "I can tell you tonight the winner is the Dallas taxpayer."The mayor looked exhausted and seems to have aged ... More >>

"We're at the End of the Third Quarter of a Basketball Game, and We're Tied at 75."

Just minutes after the Mavs lost to the Nuggets on a last-minute three-pointer, a campaign staffer for the Vote No folks reported the early-vote tallies on a chalkboard in the middle of The Loft dining room. It was hard to discern any type of reaction from a crowd still stung by the Mavs' loss, but ... More >>

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 mea ... More >>

The Convention Center Hotel Vote is Not Just About a Building. It’s About a Mayor.

Mayor Tom and Friends Really Would Like You Stop Asking About That Hotel

Workin' for a Livin'

You Said It

"They cared enough to give sanctuary to the nameless, faceless, powerless among us."

Schutze on the Street (View)

Dallas' Political Designing Woman

When Dallas' political elite need a win, Carol Reed cheers them on and calls the plays

Sweet/Sour Grapes on Trinity Referendum Results

I'm either happy, sad or still churning out column inches on the Trinity, depending on how things turned out

Vote No! Crowd Already Toasting to Victory

Drunk on Victory, At a Price

Politicians Uniting Behind the Trinity Toll Road

When the Levees Break: Behind the Scenes of the Trinity Toll Road Campaigns

Behind the Trinity River Toll Road Scenes with Angela Hunt

Fine, Trinity Toll Road Pimps -- Schutze is Just Begging to Be Marginalized

The Choir Boy Mayor

What Tom Leppert's campaign tells you about Tom Leppert

Ed Oakley Was Better Than His Campaign

Got That Mojo Workin’

The Lone Mitchell

Rasansky's way out on his lonesome about those bridges

These Guns for Hire

Deadbeats

Posh Trinity backers skate on 80 grand they owe to the city

Can It

Hunting can be a cruel sport in Texas

Remember Vote Fraud?

The DA was hot to do something about it until his own campaign got going

Real Politics

Feudal grudges and an imprisoned holy man in the Dallas mayoral race

Absentee Minded

Hey, Mr. Zillionaire Developer, got a big public project you want to sell? Black Dallas has the votes you need--dirt cheap.

Buzz

The Kirk connection

How Dallas' new mayor pulled it off