My, my, but the county’s come a long way. Used to be, way back when, us media folks just got occasional updates as precincts’ results came in. No more: Now, as evidenced by the Craig Watkins-Danny Clancy count that just came in with 24 out of 737 precincts reporting, those…
I’m about to head over to the Palomar for the Republicans’ cash-bar shindig, while Sam’s pulling pay-as-you-go drinking duty at the AAC with the Dallas County Dems, and Ex-Intern Elliot’s eating free pizza with Stephen Broden in Uptown. But before the short pour on this long night (at least, for…
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…
The gov was here yesterday; Bill White’s in town at this very moment — and, why, at noon he’ll be just down the street from Unfair Park HQ with Eddie Bernice Johnson in tow. Photos forthcoming. Like I need to tell you.But speaking of Perry, whilst he spent Monday at…
Don’t let the empty doorway at right fool you — Leonides Gonzalez Cigarroa M.D. Elementary, home of the Fightin’ One-One-One-Seven, was full of voters early this a.m. ‘Round 8 all the booths were occupied, and a short line was forming behind me; hence the brief wait till space cleared. I…
Craig Watkins and Co. would like to remind you, as polls open in the thus-far highly contentious Dallas County District Attorney race, that Craig Watkins is committed to “protecting Dallas women.” With more than 1,000 rape kits backlogged — even Detective Olivia Benson is pissed about that — and sexual…
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…
The Power of God from First Dallas on Vimeo.Patrick was downtown Saturday morning when First Baptist blew up a few buildings to make way for its downtown expansion. But Patrick didn’t have cameras stationed all over downtown. Not like First Baptist, which appears to have captured the big bang from…
Last week, the city council was all ready to vote on — and OK, since it was on the consent agenda — spending $8,723,971 in Homeland Security dough on about 2,000 Motorola multi-band mobile radios for Dallas Fire-Rescue and the Dallas Police Department. But at the last minute, the item…
Jason Roberts has uprooted his Better Block-ing from the narrow, pedestrian-unfriendly streets of Oak Cliff and is planting that sumbitch in downtown Dallas — the Arts District, specifically — this weekend and this weekend only. (For now.) He directs our attention to this morning’s post over on the new Better…
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…
The Friends of Unfair Park are no doubt familiar with the fine work of Bill Holston, noted human-rights attorney, KERA-FM commentator, occasional Morning News op-ed’er and Unfair Park commenter. (He’s also joining Angela Hunt, Rawlins Gilliland and Shibboleth at the Dallas Rally for Sanity at Lee Harvey’s Saturday, following Jon…
This morning, as expected, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood passed out $2.4 billion in funding to 54 high-speed rail projects in 23 states. Among the recipients: the Texas Department of Transportation, which’ll take home $5.6 million intended to allow a further look-see at the Oklahoma City-South Texas Corridor Plan. From…
Yesterday, I rode shotgun in Dwaine Caraway’s Beamer while he balled it up as only Dwaine Caraway can do, chatting with reporters, fist-bumping constituents and checking in on campaign workers encouraging voters to vote against the beer-and-wine proposition. It was an effort to counter the naysayers (though that’s probably a…
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…
This photo of Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, taken when he was adorable years old, ran with this morning’s New York Times piece to which I linked earlier. But because I didn’t want to lift it from the paper of record, I asked Chris Heinbaugh, the mayor’s chief of staff, if…
Tom Leppert Fact: He pitched a few innings of junior varsity at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California. So notes The New York Times this morning, in a pitching duel between the Dallas mayor and San Francisco’s mayor Gavin Newsom, a former first baseman for Redwood High School in Larkspur,…
Several Friends have asked, privately, in recent days: Whatever happened to Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s threat to drown Keep the Dollars in Dallas? As you may recall, when it came time for the council to call the election that will allow the off-premise sale of beer and wine citywide,…
Schutze weighed in over the weekend when The News decided, look, there isn’t anyone worth endorsing in the Texas 30th District congressional race — not Eddie Bernice Johnson, not Stephen Broden, not anyone, so sorry. (A reminder: Jim’s profile of the pastor appears in tomorrow’s paper version of Unfair Park.)…
No doubt you’ve read this morning’s story about how the three defense attorneys supporting Danny Clancy for Dallas County District Attorney — including Toby Shook — have piled on Craig Watkins, claiming that Christopher Scott and Claude Simmons maybe shouldn’t have been DNA-exonerated after all. Well, Dallas County Democratic Party…
Friday morning we had that item about computer programmer Don Relyea’s run-in with that touch-screen voting machine at the Audelia Road Library, where a vote for Gov. Rick Perry appeared to morph into a straight-ticket Green Party vote. Now, see, Dallas County Elections Administrator Bruce Sherbet told us he though…
