Eddie Bernice Johnson

Eddie Bernice Johnson Blasts the Morning News for "Slanted and Biased Coverage"

It's been nearly four years since developer Yigal Lelah unveiled his vision for Veterans Place, a sprawling mixed-use development he hopes to build on Lancaster Road, directly across from the VA Medical Center. The development, as the name implies, is focused on returned military personnel and thei ... More >>

Watch Dallas Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson Tell a Fox News Anchor to Shut Up

U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, who coasted unopposed to a 10th term last month, was on Fox News today to discuss the fiscal cliff. Johnson, for those of you who haven't been paying attention, is a Democrat. Fox News host Neil Cavuto is -- well he's a Fox News host. The two of them hit i ... More >>

Eddie Bernice Johnson's Chief of Staff is on Leave After Accidentally Sending an Email About a Gay Colleague to a Gay Colleague

The Washington Blade, D.C.'s main LGBT news outlet, is reporting that Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson has placed Chief of Staff Murat Gokcigdem on leave following questions about a 2010 e-mail.According to the piece, staffer Chris Crowe was seeking a letter of recommendation from Johnson fo ... More >>

Eddie Bernice Johnson on Rick Perry: "I Don't Even Know This Governor Anymore"

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, who worked as a nurse before heading to Washington, dropped by Martin Bashir's show on MSNBC to denounce Governor Rick Perry's stance toward Planned Parenthood (and to call Rush Limbaugh "un-American".) "I don't even know this governor anymore," the congresswoman says in ... More >>

Passing Out Coins, And Thank-Yous, To World War II Veterans at the Dallas VA

"When do we get to go home?" Alice Gossett inquired, a little irritably. She wore brown pajamas and soft purple booties. Tiny in her wheelchair, her feet didn't quite reach the ground. "As soon as we get our treat!" the nurse answered, beaming at her. Gossett was not impressed. "Never mind our t ... More >>

Perennial Dallas Mayoral Candidate Edward Okpa Is Not Impressed EBJ's Running Again

​From what I can tell, Jessica Huseman and Shawn Williams were the sole media members to attend Eddie Bernice Johnson's campaign kick-off held yesterday at the beleaguered Southwest Center Mall. The event was also attended by three council members: Pauline Medrano, Vonciel Jones Hill and Tennell A ... More >>

Mayor Mike: For All You Do, Eddie Bernice Johnson, This Proclamation's For You

​Got an email this morning from City Hall that Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson would be stopping by for a "a special 'thank you' event for her many years of service on behalf of the City and citizens of Dallas." Alas, we couldn't make it; too busy filling out scholarship applications. Sounded ... More >>

Union Station-to-Oak Cliff Streetcar Line Gets an Additional $3 Million From the Feds

Current Photo By Alex Scott/Historic Photo ©Dallas Historical Society​In February 2010, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood announced that the downtown Dallas streetcar project, then expected to run around $58 million, would get a huge hunk of its funding from the feds -- $23 million, to be pr ... More >>

Unintended Consequences, or: How Our John Wiley Price Reporting Helped Birth a Bad Bill

​Our coverage of the Inland Port scandal in Dallas may yet produce some new federal law. If it does, I don't think it's going to be anything we will be bragging about. Yesterday Wilonsky posted a 2-year-old deposition he found on the website of embattled Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley ... More >>

Fun With Audio, Part 2: EBJ and JWP Talk About the Inland Port, Kathy Nealy, Ross Jr. (and Me)

​This weekend I have been sitting around ruminating on the last three years of reporting I have done on the Inland Port story, which now seems to an element in the FBI corruption probe of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price. By the way, I happen to know the FBI has been hearing about this ... More >>

How Much Does That Love Field Chili's Make a Month and Other Concessions-Bidding Q&As

From the Love Field Modernization Program website​No doubt you recall the hubbub surrounding the Love Field concessions-bidding process that consumed much of last year as Mayor Tom and the council argued over no-bid contracts for incumbents Gilbert Aranza, Helen Giddings and Eddie Bernice Johnson. ... More >>

It's a diary of a mad year as Buzz recalls a P.O.'d 2010.

Joe Barton, EBJ Join Rangel, Bachmann on CREW's "Most Embarrassing Re-elects" List

​Many thanks to the Friend of Unfair Park kind enough to send our way this afternoon Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington's bipartisan list of 2010 Most Embarrassing Re-elects (and a Governor to Watch). The headline kinda says it all: Rep. Joe Barton, a hard R with a thing for BP, ... More >>

Dallas, In Red and Blue

​As I wrote last night, Dallas County's new elections website is a marked improvement over versions past -- from precinct maps to mail-ins breakdowns, it contains all the details a wonk could want. So, then. After the jump a few of the more relevant color-by-numbers, including looks at the Rick Pe ... More >>

Hours Before Polls Close, Catching Up With Eddie Bernice Johnson, Who Says of Opponent Stephen Broden: "I've Fortunately Ignored Him"

Photos by Sam MertenCongresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, clearly enthused about supporting gubernatorial candidate Bill White today at Reverchon Park Recreation Center​Knowing that winning Dallas County is vital in his uphill battle to unseat Governor Rick Perry, Democrat Bill White dropped by ... More >>

Is Tea Party Darling and Republican Congressional Candidate Stephen Broden Still Electable After Endorsing Violence As a Means of Changing the Government?

Like The News, Old Wells Fargo on Cedar Springs Can't Decide Between Broden and EBJ

Photos by Sam MertenSo confusing...Eddie or Stephen? Scholarship scandal or frightening anti-government rhetoric? Pick one for us, please, because we're flipping a coin if you don't.​In this week's paper version of Unfair Park, Schutze takes a lengthy look at Republican Stephen Broden, which m ... More >>

Broden's Camp: He's Within Striking Distance of EBJ. At Least, He Was Before the "Revolution."

Broden for CongressBroden with Karl Rove at the World Affairs Council in March​Small wonder the Stephen Broden camp is gnashing its teeth over the Brad Watson violent-overthrow interview. Just before Channel 8 ran the interview in which congressional candidate Broden said violent uprising is "on t ... More >>

The News Has Endorsed Stephen Broden. But What Does the Paper Really Know About Him?

Texas GOP VoteRNC Chair Michael Steele and Stephen Broden​This afternoon, The Dallas Morning News endorsed Stephen Broden, the Republican vying for Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson's seat in the U.S. Congress. Fascinating -- in no small part because Johnson has been the No. 1 purveyor of federal por ... More >>

Not a Lot of Folks Showed for "Last-Minute Show of Support" for Eddie Bernice Johnson

Jim Schutze​I guess grassroots just aren't what they used to be. Today an announced "grassroots" outpouring of support for embattled 30th District Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson amounted to a dozen preachers speaking to 20 human beings and 40 empty folding chairs in the Flag Room at City Hall ... More >>

Eddie Bernice Johnson and a Grandmother's Broken Heart.

Eddie Bernice Johnson's Possible Defense: "Well, Every One Else Is Taking Money."

Sam Merten​In the wake of Congressional candidate Stephen Broden's latest bombshell about incumbent Eddie Bernice Johnson's scholar-gyp scandal, we have to wonder about the whole Congress. Is Johnson's fiddling of some scholarship funds from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation merely symptom ... More >>

Anderson Cooper Is Not Amused By Your Explanation, Eddie Bernice Johnson

Eddie Bernice Johnson, who keeps changing her story about those scholarships that went to family members, appeared last night on Anderson Cooper 360 (via telephone). The segment was called "Keeping Them Honest." And Anderson did not disappoint.

Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Chair on Johnson and "The Absence of Integrity"

Rep. Donald Payne​Rep. Donald Payne, a Democrat from New Jersey, is the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation -- which, as you're well aware by now, is where Eddie Bernice Johnson found the $25,000 she gave in scholarships to relatives and her top aide's kids. And Payne's so livid ove ... More >>

Just Remember, There's More to Eddie Bernice Johnson Than the Scholarship Scandal

Eddie Bernice Johnson's Facebook page​This item is a dilation of a comment I posted to yesterday's item about 30th District Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson and the scandal about scholarships and nepotism. It struck me after I posted the comment that maybe I owed the topic a better effort. In t ... More >>

How Do You Get Your Constituents To Hate You? Tell Them Their Kids Aren't Very Smart.

Sam Merten​Lot of interesting murmurs going around Southern Dallas the last few days concerning Christy Hoppe and Todd J. Gillman's stories in the The Dallas Morning News about Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, Democrat of Dallas, dishing scholarships to her own relatives and the children of he ... More >>

Easy, Rider: Eddie Bernice Johnson Rewrites History In Interview About Trinity Exemptions

Sam MertenEddie Bernice Johnson, Tom Leppert and Kay Bailey Hutchson talking Trinity at City Hall several months back​We still have the South Dallas News in this town, only now they call it the DallasSouthNews. That's the name of the online publication Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson went to ... More >>

Caraway, EBJ, FTA Deputy and Friends Ride McKinney Ave. Trolley To, From Someplace

Photos by Evan ClintonLinda Koop, Dwaine Caraway, Eddie Bernice Johnson and John Crawford were among the bigwigs on hand today to announce, formally, the feds' MATA grant.​I don't know if Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway is a smart man. I don't know if he's an honest man. But I know Dwaine Caraway lov ... More >>

Challenger Eric Johnson Takes the High Road Against State Representative Terri Hodge, But Where Will It Lead Him?

Out Of Thin Air: "Making Ground" On the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park

Photos by Patrick MichelsMayor Tom Leppert and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson with Linda Owen (second from left) and Sheila Grant of the Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation board.​As much fun as Mayor Tom Leppert and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson could have had shoveling dirt down onto rush hour traffic, thi ... More >>

Postal Service Won't Make Changes at Dallas Main Post Office Till It Completes New Audit

​For more than a month, folks who work process mail at the Dallas Main Post Office have been wondering just when the United States Postal Service is going to make 'em move to Coppell. Last week at Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson's town hall meeting, Tim Vierling, senior plant manager at the Da ... More >>

Outside a Quiet Two-Party Town Hall, Health Care Demonstrators Take To the Streets

Patrick MichelsDemonstrators on both sides of the debate shared space outside this morning's town hall meeting with Rep. Pete Sessions and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson.​Update: Check out our slide show for more photos from the meeting and the protest.Walking up to the health care reform protest outs ... More >>

Eddie Bernice Johnson Wants FBI to Include Attacks on the Homeless in Hate Crimes Stats

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson​Last year, The New York Times noted a sharp increase in violent crimes committed against the homeless -- up 65 percent from '05 to '07, according to statistics kept by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. But at the moment, attacks on the homeles ... More >>

Eddie Bernice Johnson Demands USPS Inspector General Get Involved in Dallas Study

 When we first reached out to Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson's office last week to discuss the United States Postal Service's study concerning moving some operations from the Dallas Main Post Office to Coppell, we got no response. Then came a brief statement. A few days later, there was th ... More >>

Now, It's Eddie Bernice Johnson's Turn to Send a Letter of Concern to the USPS

Eddie Bernice JohnsonOn Friday, we acquired a copy of Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert's letter to the United States Postal Service, in which he enumerated his "grave concerns" regarding the USPS's proposal that calls for moving some operations out of the Dallas Main Post Office and out to Coppell. Today, i ... More >>

Eddie Bernice Johnson Asks DISD Board to Delay Tonight's Staffing Vote

Eddie Bernice JohnsonThe headline says it all. But this missive, which we just received from Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson's office concerning the fight over funding at Dallas Independent School District's magnet schools and learning centers, says it better. Certainly, longer.Update at 5:15 p. ... More >>

Eddie Bernice Johnson, Others Taking a Keen Interest In DISD Trustees' Efforts to Gut Magnet Schools and Learning Centers

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice JohnsonThings are popping a bit today on the Dallas Independent School District magnet schools front.Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson's office confirms that Johnson is talking to the U.S. Department of Education seeking "clarification" of its current position on Title ... More >>

Shaken and Half-Baked, or: John Wiley Price, There's a Reason God Invented Tape Recorders

Brandon ThibodeauxJohn Wiley Price is threatening legal action over Schutze's inland port stories.It was strange to pick up The Dallas Morning News today and learn that Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price has impugned the integrity of Dallas Observer columnist Jim Schutze. The commish accuse ... More >>

Congresswoman Calls Out John Wiley Price for Shaking Down Development Deal

Local pols back off a master plan that would have put the squeeze on a major southern Dallas development

The City of Dallas and Its Shiny, Distracting Thing

Do Lies Come with that Shake?

Truth Held Hostage, Day Eight. (Damn, That Sounds So Dramatic!)

Eddie Bernice Johnson's Trinity Toll Road Comment Still Not News to The News

You, Snooze. We Lose.

Turns Out, We Can Afford to Vote on the Trinity River Toll Road After All. Sorry, Tom Leppert, But You Are Wrong.

Outta Here

Cadillac Heights residents don't want levees, they want out

Letters

U.S. Reprehensible

Eddie Bernice Johnson has burned through more than 50 staffers during her four years in Congress. She says she's just demanding. They say she's a tyrant.

Campaign casualty

Cheryl Wattley's appointment to the federal bench is M.I.A. in presidential politics