Inevitably, a slew of anecdotes make the rounds in the days following an election, most of which we’re unfortunately sworn to secrecy not to expose. However, we’ve been given the green light to share the experience of election judge Sue Ringle, who just told us about Troy Aikman’s appearance and…
Longtime food-and-beverage concessionaire Gilbert Aranza requested a temporary restraining order and filed a lawsuit against the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport board late this afternoon, stemming from a disagreement regarding approximately $279,000 the board claims he owes in back rent. While the TRO aims to halt the board’s vote tomorrow morning that…
After losing yet again to the Democrats, Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman is prepared to let someone else attempt to turn the blue county back to red, telling us that he doesn’t expect to run for a third term in 2012. “I don’t want to say I’m definitely…
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 Texas House candidates…
It’s been a relatively quiet night at the Jack Daniels Old No. 7 Club, where Democratic candidates or officeholders have been hard to spot. Heck, even party chair Darlene Ewing has been in hiding all night. The slim pickings thus far have included state Rep. Helen Giddings, who we’re guessing…
Knowing that winning Dallas County is vital in his uphill battle to unseat Governor Rick Perry, Democrat Bill White dropped by Reverchon Park Recreation Center this afternoon for a quick media appearance with U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson in a last-ditch effort to grab votes before the polls close. Not…
If you’ve spent the last few nights out and about watching Your Texas Rangers get thoroughly outplayed in the World Series by the Giants, perhaps tonight is a good time to stay home and drown your sorrows alone. But for those ready to shift gears and put on your political…
It’s not often when we get to watch Mayor Tom Leppert play Robin to anyone’s Batman, but that’s exactly what happened when he introduced and subsequently endorsed Governor Rick Perry a couple weeks ago during Perry’s visit to the Hyatt Regency for his State of the State Address. No doubt…
Although I’ve long considered Matt Cain one of baseball’s most underrated hurlers, there’s no reason why C.J. Wilson can’t rebound from getting knocked around by the Yankees in Game Five of the American League Championship Series and tie up the World Series tonight. But no matter what happens against the…
In this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, Schutze takes a lengthy look at Republican Stephen Broden, which might have been a good idea for The Dallas Morning News to do before it endorsed him over U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson and then switched to a Switzerland stance in the…
Love and money: When a divided city council voted in August to open up bidding to all comers for food and retail concessions at Love Field Airport, City Hall probably hoped it’d heard the last of a fight that pitted Mayor Tom Leppert and white council members against minority council…
Ever since New York Baseball Digest’s Frank Russo posted his “Five Reasons Why the Yankees Will Sign Cliff Lee” on Monday, it has made the rounds, and several of my fellow Texas Rangers fans have expressed their concern that, well, he makes a lot of sense. To summarize, Russo argues…
Dallas County Democratic Party chair Darlene Ewing said she’s accustomed to dealing with typical political gamesmanship during campaign season like distorting records and taking words out of context, but she felt it necessary to “take a stand” against the Republicans and chair Jonathan Neerman for running “an orchestrated campaign of…
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 examined two witnesses,…
It seems like only yesterday that we were at the parking lot in front of the Dallas Convention Center to celebrate the groundbreaking of the new city-owned hotel, where Mayor Tom Leppert donned a bellhop’s hat and twice shoveled dirt into a hole before a large “D” was pulled out…
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins accused Republican challenger Danny Clancy of lying and attempting to be the next Henry Wade at a debate last night at Friendship-West Baptist Church in South Dallas, where Watkins and his family attend church. While Watkins clearly held the home-field advantage for the final…
Governor Rick Perry recycled his campaign stump speech and sold it as his State of the State Address to the crowd gathered at the Hyatt Regency this afternoon, as Perry bragged about the economy and railed against Washington for failing to secure the Texas-Mexico border. “In a word, the state…
We’re here at City Hall for the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee’s briefing about the recent setback in the city’s rush to restore the Trinity River levees’ 100-year flood protection before FEMA finalizes new flood maps at the end of 2011. At issue is a request by the U.S. Army…
Dallas County Democratic Party chair Darlene Ewing said it’s her party’s “belief and suspicion” that Republican Danny Clancy’s reported theft of four tires from his Ford Expedition on Thursday was a “stunt,” adding that there’s a racial connotation to Clancy’s suggestion that District Attorney Craig Watkins or his campaign was…
Back on July 11, I spent a couple innings with Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels inside a luxury suite at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington as the team finished a lousy four-game series with the Baltimore Orioles. His team would lose that day and limped into the All-Star break after…
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins outraised Republican challenger Danny Clancy by more than $50,000 during the latest three-month fund-raising period, while Clancy outspent his Democratic counterpart by more than $20,000, according to campaign finance reports. Both candidates struggled to raise dough — Watkins nabbed just $136,000 and Clancy $83,000…
Much like everyone else in Dallas media, I received a call this morning from Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman, who told me that Danny Clancy awoke to find his SUV on blocks with its tires stolen. Already aware that his wife Julie, a Dallas municipal court judge, had…
