Domingo Garcia

Ralph Isenberg is on a Wild Crusade Against Domingo Garcia over May 5 Immigration March

Ralph Isenberg and Domingo Garcia haven't always been enemies. Back in 2010, in fact, they were all set to dine together at a fundraiser with President Obama, until Isenberg was unceremoniously disinvited by the White House. Their relationship has since gone south, reaching its nadir this month wit ... More >>

Domingo Garcia Wants to Be LULAC's President, but LULAC is Suing to Stop Him

Sometime last month, Domingo Garcia launched his bid to become the next president of LULAC, the nationwide Latino civil rights advocacy organization. He started a campaign page on Facebook on March 8 and sent an open letter to the group's members at about the same time. "Today LULAC is at a politic ... More >>

Meet Luis Martos-Uribe, the Man Whose Finger Was Severed at the Perot

The folks at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science are excellent at putting together infotaining science exhibits. They are not so good at handling a minor PR challenge. That much became clear when, on December 30, a museum patron was injured. A week later, pressed by the Morning News, museum offi ... More >>

Garcia Says He Didn't Actually Lose That Election

Last I checked, Domingo Garcia lost his bid for Congress. Marc Veasey got about 53 percent of the vote in last month's Democratic primary runoff, which is more than half, which is what it takes to win an election. Except Garcia doesn't see it that way. "While it may appear that I have lost the ele ... More >>

Breaking: Domingo Garcia's Dog Endorses Domingo Garcia For Congress

For months now, Domingo Garcia and Marc Veasey have been groveling before increasingly less significant public figures for endorsements in the race for the U.S. House seat stretching from Oak Cliff west to Ft. Worth. I thought that, with the July 31 runoff fast approaching, they had exhausted all en ... More >>

Domingo Garcia and Marc Veasey Trade Barbs At Pissy Primary Debate For District 33

At Friday's Democratic primary run-off debate between Domingo Garcia and Marc Veasey for the 33rd wasn't quite as bitchy as we had hoped, in that Garcia didn't refer to his opponent, a grown-ass black man, as a "boy" this time, which is positive, right? At the beginning, hell, we even thought this ... More >>

Whoever Allegedly Hacked Domingo Garcia's Facebook Account Is Not Very Imaginative

Update at 2:41 p.m.: I just heard back from Garcia. It was his personal account that was targeted, and it's still down. "They changed the email to the account and changed the password, and they unfriended everybody," he told me. Why someone would do that, he wasn't sure, but he suspects they made ... More >>

Jason Roberts Won't Endorse. We Advise Marc Veasey and Domingo Garcia How to Woo the All-Important Hipster Vote

Now that the race for North Texas' newest congressional seat has officially been whittled down from a dozen to just two, it has transformed from an entertaining, no-holds-barred political cockfight with several amusing sideshows into a ethno-geographical scramble for endorsements. A mess, in other, ... More >>

No, Domingo Garcia Does Not Live 33rd District. But Neither Do Many of His Rivals.

View You too can see if your candidate lives in the Texas 33rd Congressional District When the polls close on the Democratic primary for Texas' new 33rd Congressional District, surprisingly few of the nearly dozen candidates will have cast a vote for themselves. We received a note from a Friend of ... More >>

Marc Veasey Doesn't Like Domingo Garcia "Trumpeting" Black Paper's Endorsement

In case you haven't been paying attention, the race for the 33rd Congressional District is still a pissing match likely to end up in a runoff between between Domingo Garcia and Marc Veasey for the Democratic nomination. A quick recap: Garcia called big SUVs un-American, which led Veasey to proclai ... More >>

Did Marc Veasey Call a Civil Rights Icon Senile? Domingo Garcia Says Yes.

There are 11 candidates in the crowded Democratic primary for the new congressional district spanning from Oak Cliff to Fort Worth, but the race is quickly sinking into a political pissing match involving just two as the May 29 primary approaches. Marc Veasey, a state representative from Fort Wort ... More >>

Domingo Garcia Calls Opponent "Errand Boy." Was That a Slur or Just Typical Garcia?

Domingo, Domingo, Domingo. You were named after the day of worship. Why do you always wind up using names against other people? Yesterday, state Representative Rafael Anchia jumped on Dallas congressional candidate Domingo Garcia for calling a black opponent an "errand boy." In a press release, A ... More >>

In the Race for District 33, the Bank of Domingo is Open (but Not for Kathy Nealy)

It costs north of a million bucks to win a U.S. House seat these days. Winning District 33, the new DFW block carved out of the totally riveting and not at all arcane redistricting process, should cost considerably less, thanks to a shortened primary and probably noncompetitive general. Still: It wi ... More >>

The Race for Texas' New Congressional District Is Going To Be Very Interesting. And Crowded.

Let's just call it: Everyone in town is running for Congress. Okay, not everyone, but the race for the newly-created, much-argued-over Congressional District 33 has gotten very, very crowded, especially on the Democrats' side. Last night we watched as former Dallas city council member -- and may ... More >>

Last Week, Several From Dallas City Hall Took a Couple of Field Trips to the Justice Department

Photo by Anna MerlanDomingo Garcia and Delia Jasso at last night's redistricting confab​The answer is no, the question being: Will we ever stop writing about the city redistricting process? But it's been a little while, so let's review. Then we can discuss the dueling delegations who apparentl ... More >>

Dallas City Hall Gets Occupied, For the Morning At Least, By the Latino Redistricting Task Force

Photos by Anna Merlan​As promised, the public comment period at this morning's Dallas City Council meeting featured several members of the Domingo Garcia-led Latino Redistricting Task Force . In the council briefing room, every chair was full, with many people wearing white-and-blue tees that read ... More >>

"It's Time to Take Action": Latino Redistricting Task Force Pledges to Fight New Council Map

Photo by Anna MerlanDomingo Garcia and, sitting to his right, Scott Griggs at last night's meeting over the map in Oak Cliff​Last week we sat through a very long, very ugly city council meeting, which ended with the members narrowly adopting a new redistricting plan. At that time, council member D ... More >>

Turns Out We May Not Be Done With Fighting Over Redistricting Map After All

​And here Anna thought she was done with redistricting. Hah!A Friend of Unfair Park just sent us an invite to wingding Domingo Garcia's throwing at Tejano Restaurant on West Davis scheduled to kick off at 6:30 p.m. Says the come-one-come-all signed by the redistricting commissioner:"The Dallas cit ... More >>

Making Black Voters Disappear

Domingo Garcia and his council redistricting pals pull off a neat trick.

Garcia Defends Private Redistricting Meetings; Calls Morgan, Halstead "Dinosaurs of Dallas"

Ruth Morgan addressing Mayor Mike Rawlings in a clip that follows after the jump​As we noted yesterday, during her presentation of the Redistricting Commission's proposed map to the city council, chair Ruth Morgan mentioned that one member of the commission, whom she later identified as Domingo Ga ... More >>

So Much For Transparency: Garcia Held Private Meetings Before Redistricting Map Hit Council

Domingo Garcia, a week before he called his closed-door meetings with the Redistricting Commission​This morning, the city council got its first formal look at the just-completed redistricting map proposal, Plan 16d, presented by redistricting chair Ruth Morgan and vice chair Billy Ratcliff. And du ... More >>

Dwaine Caraway Speaks at Longest Redistricting Commission Meeting Ever & Other Highlights

The end is near ... sort of. The city's Redistricting Commission is inching towards putting together a city map it can forward on to the city council, and everyone -- the public and commissioners alike -- is trying to get in a parting shot before then. Last night's meeting was a marathon ... More >>

Let's Watch Domingo Garcia, Redistricting Commission Discuss the Future of Dallas

Redistricting Commissioners Elizabeth Jones and Domingo Garcia, who have tough and thankless jobs for which they aren't paid a penny, are displeased with me at the moment for nay-saying their incomplete maps. Garcia chided me in the comments, writing that it appears I've graduated from " ... More >>

Domingo, As a Member of the Redistricting Commission, You Should Really Know Better

Click to embiggen Domingo Garcia's submitted map.​Like I said Friday, when we looked at Dwaine Caraway and Carolyn Davis's messed-up maps, Anna's heading to that Redistricting Commission meeting this evening at City Hall -- sooooo lucky. (Tell Sandra Crenshaw that Schutze sends his warmest regards ... More >>

Redistricting Commission Nixes Halstead's Map But Praises the Work of One Sam Merten

Photo by Anna MerlanAt right, a former Unfair Park-er makes the case for his map to the Redistricting Commission last night.​At last, an interesting Redistricting Commission meeting. And a vaguely star-studded one too. Among those in attendance at last night's meeting: council members Dwaine Caraw ... More >>

News & Notes: Immigration Reform, César Chávez, Garland Road & Gay Jesus

​Some news and notes on this light-commenting Thursday:Domingo Garcia's got himself a whole new immigration-reform MegaMarch to promote -- this one, a May 1 parade that'll start at the Santuario de Guadalupe on Ross Ave. and end at Dallas City Hall. Says Garcia on the Web site, "Our immigrant comm ... More >>

Who Gets Constable Jaime Cortes's Computer Data? Not Cortes. For Now, It's the Court's.

Constable Jaime Cortes​During a last-minute hearing this afternoon, a judge ordered that data seized from Precinct 5 Constable Jaime Cortes's office computer be returned -- only, not to Cortes, as his lawyers, Larry Friedman and Domingo Garcia, had demanded, but to the court, where it will remain ... More >>

Mexican Citizens Seeking Help from the Local Consulate Get Snared in a Legal Grudge Match

Bill Richardson's Coming to Town. He Wants Your Money. Who Doesn't?

Domingo Garcia Leading March on Immigration Enforcement HQ Today. Sounds Like Fun.

We Never Say "Told Ya So." Never.

Schutze Reads DMN Story, Then Votes "No"

Run for the Border

A Mexican diplomat tells suspects to run, but Susana Loera won't stand for it

2002 Revealed

An aging Buzz finds little to celebrate in the year gone by. What did you expect?

Pants on Fire

Plus: Machismo gone wrong, In painful detail, Miller-obsessed

The Envelope, Please

And the Tom Dunning staff member who has been subpoenaed to the grand jury is...

Someone's Lying

Hint: His initials are D.G., and he has a moustache

A Hole in Every Pot

A city gone shabby yearns for a mayor to put things right

One Moe

Even if Domingo Garcia can't win the mayor's race, he can slap the other two into shape

Agin and Agin

The next city election will separate the good aginners from the evildoers

Run, Domingo, Run

Looks like Domingo Garcia will coming to a ballot near you.

Deep Doo-doo

One side or the other broke the law in a messy city council race, Dallas' top election official says

Buzz

Letters

Politics makes strange enemies

Why Domingo Garcia is running against the father of his godson

Behind closed doors

What the council says in secret.

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BeloWatch

Buzz

Another view

What City Hall isn't willing to hear about the new arena