Gromer Jeffers

As Supreme Court Debates Gay Marriage, Texas Politicians Explain How it Violates God's Law

The attention of the country, or at least that segment of it that's politically aware enough to pay attention, is focused squarely on the U.S. Supreme Court,which this week is debating a pair of potentially momentous cases. Hollingsworth v. Perry, which was argued today, could do away with Californi ... More >>

The North Texas Tea Party Says Voting Machines Are Stealing Republican Votes

There's been a lot of talk this election season about the specter of voter fraud, the idea that the polls will be flooded by illegal immigrants, household pets and dead people (all left-leaning constituencies), thereby cheapening real Americans' votes. There has been relatively little concern expres ... 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 >>

Republican Senate Candidates Are Politically Identical

Still deciding who to favor among the Republican candidates vying for nomination to the U.S. Senate? Might as well play eenie, meenie, miney, mo, or choose based on favorite color or music preference, because politically, they're practically the same. Tom Leppert, Senate candidate and former Dallas ... More >>

What John Wiley Price's Supporters Are Really Saying About How Dallas Operates

​Gromer Jeffers has a pay-walled column in today's Dallas Morning News trying to explain community support for embattled Southern Dallas leader John Wiley Price, now the target of a major FBI investigation for money laundering and other crimes. I respect Jeffers for struggling with a very tough is ... More >>

John Wiley Price: Give the Devil His Due

And don't believe everything you read.

Watch Carefully as The Dallas Morning News Tippy-Toes Away from John Wiley Price

​If you are a regular reader of The Dallas Morning News, Dallas's only daily newspaper since 1991, and if you are following the federal corruption investigation of John Wiley Price, the county's most powerful black politician, then from here on out you need to put on your magnifying specs and ... More >>

With Familiar Name as Chief of Staff, Mike Rawlings Talks About Top of His To-Do List

First off, to the Friend of Unfair Park who noted yesterday that Paula Blackmon would be named mayor-elect Mike Rawlings's chief of staff today, kudos. That's indeed correct, says City Hall: Former Mayor Tom Leppert's deputy chief of staff,  who took a gig ... More >>

Al Lipscomb Is Dead

Photo by Sam MertenAl Lipscomb at the federal courthouse during the trial of Don Hill in '09​'Round this time last year Al Lipscomb was hospitalized at Methodist following a fall that resulted in a broken leg; Gromer Jeffers wrote that the former council member wasn't "doing so well these days." W ... More >>

Mike Rawlings Says He Wants to Fix the Schools. Sure, But Talk is Cheap.

​Ah, wait a minute. Wait a minute. I call "rubber meets road" on the school district issue in the mayor's race. Candidate Mike Rawlings has been getting himself some political mileage on the hustings by saying that, as mayor, he will help fix the city's beleaguered public school system. I hav ... More >>

Do Other "Truly Great American Cities" Talk About Being "Truly Great" As Often as Dallas?

Over here you'll find the highlights from last night's mayoral debate held in front of dozens on the SMU campus; KTVT-Channel 11 was kind enough to cut it up into little pieces, lest we choke on the whole thing. But let's begin the morning at the end of affair -- after all the talk of budgets and br ... More >>

David Kunkle Says He's Not Hiding Laura Miller's Support Because He Doesn't Have It Yet

Patrick MichelsFormer Mayor Laura Miller praises then-Police Chief David Kunkle in November 2009 after he announced he was calling it quits​She spoke at former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle's retirement press conference. She appointed Mike Rawlings to be the city's homeless czar. She was ma ... More >>

Rick Perry's New Sidekick, Grover Norquist

Office of the GovernorGrover Norquist speaks on Tuesday at Manda Machine, along with Rick Perry. It's also nice to see The News's Gromer Jeffers doesn't let boring press conferences keep him from getting his Mardi Gras on.​As mentioned below, Gov. Rick Perry was in town yesterday -- at Manda Machi ... More >>

Tom Leppert Rediscovers His Virginity

​The Gromer Jeffers story in The Dallas Morning News Saturday reporting that Tom Leppert now opposes federal earmark money for the Trinity River project put me in mind of an old newspaper friend. He had struggled mightily with temptation during his younger married years. I should say, he stru ... More >>

Dallas Citizens Council will once again try to anoint our next mayor: There are good reasons to give a damn.

Why Is County Judge Gunning for Elections Chief Bruce Sherbet, "One of the Good Guys"?

Via.Dallas County Elections Administrator Bruce Sherbet​[Update: For reasons explained in the piece below, Bruce Sherbet tells Unfair Park he has resigned, effective March 1. He says when he spoke to Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price today, he told him he would work through the May mayor ... More >>

In Dallas Mayoral Race, Is Angela Hunt's the Only Personal Life That Matters?

​I'm guessing the male "potential candidates" for mayor listed in a Wednesday Dallas Morning News article have personal lives. They're probably in relationships or unmarried singles. Some of 'em might have kids. Others could have ailing or aging parents they're responsible for. Maybe one or two on ... More >>

The Billion-Dollar Question: If Mayor Tom Leppert's Really About to Ditch, Why?

Mayor Tom and Ron Natinsky​Gromer Jeffers is saying this afternoon it's "all but certain" Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert won't run for reelection in May, although he doesn't quite say how he's so certain. I certainly have been picking up a lot of ground clutter in the last week, mainly about various hop ... More >>

Craig Watkins's Campaign Says Danny Clancy's TV Ads Are Misleading Voters By Claiming Watkins Hasn't Prosecuted a Case as DA

If you've seen Republican Danny Clancy's latest political ad above or his first one, you know what he views as District Attorney Craig Watkins's biggest wart: never prosecuting a felony case. But that's not true, according to Kurt Watkins, Craig's cousin and campaign manager. In fact, Craig exami ... More >>

Governor Perry Drops By East Dallas Gun Shop to Remind Us How Much He Loves Second Amendment, Hates Coyotes

Sam Merten​Gov. Rick Perry said concealed handgun laws have made Texas safer during a campaign stop at McClelland Gun Shop yesterday afternoon while receiving endorsements from the National Rifle Association and the Texas State Rifle Association. He also continued to milk his story about killi ... More >>

Angela "Swing Vote" Hunt Gives Us a Hint of What to Expect at Tomorrow's Love Field Airport Concessions Shindig

Angela Hunt's flickrWill this be the scene after tomorrow's council briefing?​Tomorrow, finally, the city council will be briefed once again on the concession contracts at Dallas Love Field Airport that has the council is split along racial lines. Mayor Tom Leppert failed to mention the racial ... More >>

Kissin' Cousins: Who the Hell Came Up With That List of Would-Be Mayoral Candidates?

David Laney, who at least looks like a Dallas mayor​Reading The Dallas Morning News is easy. I don't know why people complain. I had at least three conversations Sunday with grumpy people all upset and confused about the Gromer Jeffers story in the Sunday paper: "Issue of Dallas' next mayor isn't ... More >>

GOP Chair Neerman Brushes Off Governor Perry Calling Him "a Great Kid" But Won't Take Back Comments About Cathie Adams

Sam MertenNeerman's right. He does have a lot more gray hair than Perry.When Dallas County Republican chair Jonathan Neerman told us that the election of Cathie Adams as the state party's new chair "set the party back five years," even the editorial board at The Dallas Morning News took notice. A fe ... More >>

GOP County Chair Jonathan Neerman Responds to Kick to the Crotch from DMN'er

Hal SamplesFamily reasons? Give us a break, Neerman. Geez, like we haven't heard that one before. On Tuesday, DMN'er Gromer Jeffers reported on one of the paper's 423 blogs (apparently they have one named after the Portland Trail Blazers) that Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman (a ... More >>

Governor Rick Perry Doesn't Talk Hutchison or Secession at Fund-Raiser, Instead Brags About $9 Billion in "Rainy Day" Funds

Sam Merten​Governor Rick Perry touted the Legislature's ability to balance the state's budget while stashing away $9 billion in "rainy day" funds during a Dallas County Republican Party fund-raiser this afternoon at Edison's. "That is the type of government that America is looking for," he ... More >>

Maybe Northern and Southern Dallas Should Consider a Free-Trade Pact

What Gag Order? Yet Again, Don Hill Claims He's the Victim of a Witch Hunt.

Clearly, Don Hill will no longer take this prosecution sitting down.We're still waiting on the preachers' letter to U.S. Attorney Eric Holder, but in an interview with Gromer Jeffers Jr. just posted to The Dallas Morning News Web site, Don Hill yet again claims he's being subjected to federal prosec ... More >>

South Side Story

Richard Allen brings jobs to the black community.That makes him racist?

The DMN Buries the Lede and Common Sense

No Surprises: Ron Kirk is Being Vetted for Obama Cabinet Position

Flickr photo: Obama__Dallas (Adam Jefferson) Ron Kirk, speaking briefly at an Obama victory party at Gilley's on Election Night On November 5, the day after his friend Barack Obama was elected president, former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk told Unfair Park he had "no expectations" concerning an appointme ... More >>

Cornyn-Noriega: The Other Debate

Bill Clinton Stops By Thomas Jefferson for Democratic Party Pep Rally

Fred Baron: I Gave John Edwards' Mistress the Money, Sure Did

Lions, Tigers and a Mayor Tom Fund-Raiser -- Oh, My!

And You Think We're Obsessed With Angela Hunt

Do We Still Have to Vote Next Week?

Don Hill Has "Courage." So, Thanks, FBI!

No Matter How Many Would-Be Mayors Are in the Soup, the Recipe's Always the Same

Why All the White Wanna-Be Mayors Might Be Rooting For a Don Hill Candidacy After All

Re: Chaney to the Rescue?

The Next Mayor of the City of Dallas Will Be...

High Cotton

Bury, Destroy--What's the Difference Amongst Friends?

Rock Star

The smart money wants a mayor with sex appeal

Don and Sheila Sitting in a Tree...

Feelin' groovy

...and ineffectual

Bad Blow

Why are the DMN city columnists so lame? Belo wants them that way.

Buzz

A child shall lead her

The Real Cheaters

Officials showed courage by cracking down on Dwaine Caraway's campaign