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…
Watching the real news some nights has its advantages. Like this gift sure to keep on giving, for instance, which was wedged almost unnoticed at 10:23 in between awkward election-result wraps: WFAA-Channel 8 just ran Rebecca Lopez’s story about how city council member Carolyn Davis might well have interfered with…
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…
With a monster show of force, and a little help from the weather, Dallas County Republicans have made their presence known tonight, bringing Central Expressway and Mockingbird Lane to an absolute standstill pulling their Large Vehicles into the Hotel Palomar for their election night cash-bar bacchanal. We’ve heard from a…
It was way back in February that Gary Huddleston, the Dallas market’s director of consumer affairs at Kroger, first made it known he was leading yet another effort to get Dallas all wet and make it possible to buy beer and wine wherever citywide. Nine months later, the treasurer of…
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…
