Ken Mayfield

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

Ain't No Party Like an Election Night Watching Party, So Here's Where to Find Your Peeps

Sam MertenDespite lots of enthusiasm from Dallas County Commissioner Maurine Dickey, the Republicans didn't do so hot two years ago. Could they turn the tables this year? Find out at Hotel Palomar. Or Victory Park.​If you've spent the last few nights out and about watching Your Texas Rangers g ... More >>

Royce West Declares Victory For Garcia and Jenkins; Exonerees Appear Instead of Watkins

Photos by Sam Merten​With The Ackermans now on stage at the Jack Daniels Old No. 7 Club, Dallas County Democratic Party chair Darlene Ewing finally made her appearance about 45 mintues ago along with state Senator Royce West and a group of candidates, when she expressed her condolences to the ... More >>

Sweatin' It Out With the Justice League!

Photos by Sam MertenState Senator Royce West and county judge candidate Clay Jenkins help pump up the crowd as District Attorney Craig Watkins grabs the mic Saturday afternoon.​This, in case you have not heard, is the "Summer of Justice." Which, as far as summers-of goes, ranks somewhere in betwee ... More >>

Craig Watkins Just Can't Seem to Please Anybody.

Photos by Sam MertenState Senator Royce West and county judge candidate Clay Jenkins help pump up the crowd as District Attorney Craig Watkins grabs the mic Saturday afternoon.​This, in case you have not heard, is the "Summer of Justice." Which, as far as summers-of goes, ranks somewhere in betwee ... More >>

Constable Jaime Cortes Calls It Quits Because "My Family Has Been Through Enough"

​For more than 40 years, Dallas County Constable Jaime Cortes says, he led an exemplary life, rising up through the ranks of law enforcement in the last decade without running into trouble. But over the course of the last nine months, Cortes claims his reputation has been "smeared tremendously ... More >>

Embattled Constable Jaime Cortes: "A True Company Man" Who's "Sure" DA Watkins is Investigating the Constables

Cortes says Ken Mayfield's admission that he's helping his opponent reinforces his latest campaign e-mail.​When Republican Ken Mayfield admitted to us that he's been recruiting volunteers to help Democrat Beth Villarreal defeat Precinct 5 Constable Jaime Cortes in Tuesday's upcoming Democratic ... More >>

Was County Judge Jim Foster Really the Disaster His Own Party Claimed. Maybe, Maybe Not.

Cortes says Ken Mayfield's admission that he's helping his opponent reinforces his latest campaign e-mail.​When Republican Ken Mayfield admitted to us that he's been recruiting volunteers to help Democrat Beth Villarreal defeat Precinct 5 Constable Jaime Cortes in Tuesday's upcoming Democratic ... More >>

Richard Allen Blames Economy, Not John Wiley Price For Bankruptcy, Amazed Voters Chose to Replace Jim Foster

Richard Allen​Space restraints prevented us from including our interview with Richard Allen, CEO of The Allen Group, in this week's look at departing Dallas County Judge Jim Foster -- available wherever paper versions of Unfair Park are given away tomorrow. Of course, TAG is developing the Dallas ... More >>

Hey, John Wiley, Give a Dog a Bone, Willya?

​Doesn't it seem like only yesterday that Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price was telling everybody that County Judge Jim Foster was wacky? Now who wears the wacko jacket every week at commissioners court? This week Price harangued Foster for wanting to direct the county's constables to c ... More >>

Wherein Schutze Apologizes to Commissioners Ken Mayfield and Maureen Dickey

Believe it or not, you can actually own this poster. Makes a great Christmas gift. Put it next to your JWP bobblehead.​I owe an apology to the members of the Dallas County Commissioners Court for remarks in my column this week. I write that they sat idly by and did nothing during a recent outburst ... More >>

Ken Mayfield Sees John Wiley Price's Button and Pushes It. Hard. Then ... Ka-Boom!

​Maybe there's a very good reason KTVT-Channel 11 has the top nightly newscast in town -- like, oh, I dunno, because it's the lone network affiliate smart enough to send a cameraman down to the Dallas County Commissioners Court? Today, the CBS affiliate returned with a mighty powerful short film d ... More >>

New Shoes: $40. New Pants: $73. Commissioners Court Meetings: Priceless.

Dallas County Judge Jim Foster isn't the only guy at 411 Elm Street on Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price's shit list; there's always Commissioner Ken Mayfield, last seen arguing with Price over the meaning of a "black hole." Now, this chapter in their ongoing love affair: WFAA-Channel 8 ha ... More >>

Today, the Rubbers Meet the Road in Dallas County Commissioners Court

Right before Christmas, Dallas County revealed that it just might consider lifting the condom distribution ban enacted in 1995, when then-County Commissioner Jim Jackson told The New York Times, "Sodomy is still against the law in Texas. I hear people say the government shouldn't be in the bedroom. ... More >>

Buzz Reviews the News of 2008: Yes. It Was All Bad.

Sex clubs in the 'burbs, teacher layoffs in the district, black holes in the commissioners court—Buzz makes perfect sense of 2008

Thirteen Years Later, Dallas County May Finally Get Back its Condom Sense

In the wake of this morning's news that Dallas County may, at long last, overturn its 13-year-old no-condom distribution policy due to the rise in number of AIDS and HIV cases, it's worth revisiting the ghosts of Christmas past. Because in April 1995, The New York Times came to town to question why ... More >>

Take It Easy On Lupe. And: EARTHQUAKE!

In the wake of this morning's news that Dallas County may, at long last, overturn its 13-year-old no-condom distribution policy due to the rise in number of AIDS and HIV cases, it's worth revisiting the ghosts of Christmas past. Because in April 1995, The New York Times came to town to question why ... More >>

John Wiley Price Would Have Preferred "Sinkhole," Ken Mayfield

In the wake of this morning's news that Dallas County may, at long last, overturn its 13-year-old no-condom distribution policy due to the rise in number of AIDS and HIV cases, it's worth revisiting the ghosts of Christmas past. Because in April 1995, The New York Times came to town to question why ... More >>

Towing the Line at City Hall

In the wake of this morning's news that Dallas County may, at long last, overturn its 13-year-old no-condom distribution policy due to the rise in number of AIDS and HIV cases, it's worth revisiting the ghosts of Christmas past. Because in April 1995, The New York Times came to town to question why ... More >>

John Wiley Price and Ken Mayfield and the Bullshit Over Overtime Pay

In the wake of this morning's news that Dallas County may, at long last, overturn its 13-year-old no-condom distribution policy due to the rise in number of AIDS and HIV cases, it's worth revisiting the ghosts of Christmas past. Because in April 1995, The New York Times came to town to question why ... More >>

Start Your Engines

In the wake of this morning's news that Dallas County may, at long last, overturn its 13-year-old no-condom distribution policy due to the rise in number of AIDS and HIV cases, it's worth revisiting the ghosts of Christmas past. Because in April 1995, The New York Times came to town to question why ... More >>

A Family Tells Commissioners: Our Son's "Treated Like an Animal" in County Jail

In the wake of this morning's news that Dallas County may, at long last, overturn its 13-year-old no-condom distribution policy due to the rise in number of AIDS and HIV cases, it's worth revisiting the ghosts of Christmas past. Because in April 1995, The New York Times came to town to question why ... More >>

He Said, She Said and Nobody Said a Damned Thing

In the wake of this morning's news that Dallas County may, at long last, overturn its 13-year-old no-condom distribution policy due to the rise in number of AIDS and HIV cases, it's worth revisiting the ghosts of Christmas past. Because in April 1995, The New York Times came to town to question why ... More >>

Party Poop

With Dems likes these, who needs the GOP?

A Rose is a Rosita

With Dems likes these, who needs the GOP?

Hell to the Chief

With Dems likes these, who needs the GOP?

County to State: Secure This

With Dems likes these, who needs the GOP?

Gravy Train

With Dems likes these, who needs the GOP?

Sheriff Who?

Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez was a revolutionary candidate--as a leader, not so much

The Lone Ranger

Right, but not quite right, Dallas County Judge Margaret Keliher is reforming county government while infuriating her Republican colleagues

Pokes in the Eye

Cowboys back out of Fair Park deal

The king of Cockrell Hill

Dallas Constable Aurelio Castillo claims the criminal charges against him are a political conspiracy. His opponents say he's just a doofus.

Buzz

Now you don't see it...Rumor patrol; Signing off; Flicked up; Study hall; Wyoming, we think

Money talks

Dallas County commissioners increase the pay for independent court interpreters

Lost in Translation

Dallas judges say unqualified Spanish translators are hindering the course of justice, but county commissioners are hearing another story altogether

It's the details, stupid

Candidate Bob Stimson claims his opponent's shoddy bookkeeping is a sneaky way to campaign at taxpayer expense

Courthouse coup

How County Commissioner Jim Jackson and his right-wing Republican cronies have Dallas' judges running scared

No joke

County Commissioner Ken Mayfield isn't laughing anymore about sexual harassment charges