As you may have read in this morning’s Dallas Morning News, Vice President Joe Biden has plans to drop by the home of lawyer Russell Budd tomorrow night to headline a fund-raiser for the Democrats’ U.S. Senate campaign committee. Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman seized on the visit…
Today, in the foyer of the Kroger at 5665 E. Mockingbird Lane, Progress Dallas officially launched its effort to collect the 68,846 signatures needed to call a local option election giving residents the chance to vote for the elimination the dry areas of Dallas, as well as ending all the…
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 Logistics Hub, which Schutze…
First we didn’t know who shouted “Baby Killer!” at Rep. Bart Stupak last night, during the health care debate. Joe Barton knew, but he wasn’t talking. Then, we found out: It was Lubbock’s own Rep. Randy Neugebauer, which, according to Jim anyway, sounded familiar.Neugebauer. Neugebauer. Neugebauer. (Also: It’s fun to…
On Tuesday, we opined that Mayor Tom Leppert’s U.S. Senate campaign was moving full steam ahead regardless of whether Kay Bailey Hutchison resigns before her term expires at the end of 2012. Why? The donations to his mayoral campaign completely dried up in the last half of 2009; his annual…
[Updated: Below, you’ll find an update, from Taking Points Memo, in which Rep. Randy Neugebauer of Lubbock fesses up to being the shouter last night. As TPM also points out, he was also the co-sponsor of the so-called Birther Bill.] Last night, Gawker wondered, “Who Is the American Hero Who…
For the past two years, Mayor Tom Leppert’s annual “Giraffes, Monkeys and Lepperts” event at the Dallas Zoo has served as a birthday bash for the mayor and fund-raiser for Friends of Tom Leppert, a committee formed to pay Leppert’s consultants and expenses. Last year, we revealed one of the…
Hands up, waiting for their turn to talk and asking the woman across the table to speak up a little louder, please, about 20 people gathered at The Generator in Garland on Saturday afternoon to mull over political questions at one of about a dozen local Coffee Party USA kick-off events.Billed as a…
One hundred and fourteen votes. That’s all that kept Clay Jenkins from securing the Democratic nomination for county judge on March 2. Instead, he’ll take on former Dallas City Council member Larry Duncan in the April 13 runoff election to determine Republican Wade Emmert’s opponent in November. Echoing much of…
Just a few things I’ve collected during the course of a day that would have been better spent in bed …I see here that Bruegger’s Bakery and Café is expanding this year into the Dallas-Fort Worth market. Never had a Bruegger’s, but says here it’s nothing more than “an average…
To the delight of State Representative Rafael Anchía and others in the Dallas County Democratic Party, chair Darlene Ewing couldn’t have been more wrong when she told us that “rampant fear and mistrust” would leave Terri Hodge’s successor in the hands of precinct chairs in House District 100. Anchía, whose…
After early voting numbers showed Clay Jenkins with a commanding lead in the three-way Democratic primary race for county judge, talk last night among the small group gathered at the Belmont Hotel supporting Judge Jim Foster focused on how the race appeared to have been won by dough (Jenkins raised…
In the online discussion related to this afternoon’s Unfair Park post regarding Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins’s campaign finance reports, several comments about Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman appeared, pointing to a fine he received from the Federal Election Commission and alleging that Neerman is the target…
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins has paid family members or businesses they own more than $85,000 from his campaign funds, according to Unfair Park’s review of his campaign finance reports. In addition, after his election in November 2006, Watkins begin paying utilities for his campaign office, which include a…
If you thought the efforts of former Dallas City Council members Diane Ragsdale and Sandra Crenshaw to get Terri Hodge reelected were futile, think again. While lawyer Eric Johnson “would make a fine representative,” says Dallas County Democratic Party chair Darlene Ewing, she predicts that he’ll fall short when votes…
We’re still trying to figure out why Bill White continues to burn through campaign dough since his only significant competition in the Democratic primary is Farouk Shami, but perhaps the former mayor of Houston is aiming to embarrass Shami at the polls worse than Shami embarrassed himself as White makes…
Terri Hodge has already asked voters in House District 100 to stop taking Diane Ragsdale’s robocalls. Now, per a good Friend of Unfair Park, the guilty-plea-taking state representative has a message for precinct chairs:I just got a Fed Ex from Terri Hodge, and it’s a form letter regarding precinct chairs…
Maybe you heard: Former Dallas city council member Diane Ragsdale still wants voters in Texas House District 100 to cast their ballots for Terri Hodge — guilty plea be damned. Said Ragsdale last week, nothing against Eric Johnson, “it’s about enhancing participation and preventing a situation where we have representation…
As Dallas County Judge Jim Foster told us February 15, after releasing the first of three reports as part of former FBI agent Danny Defenbaugh’s investigation of the constables, the second report regarding Kwanzaa Fest alleges that approximately 49 deputy constables under Jaime Cortes and Derick Evans earned more than…
Prior to his gig tonight at the Granada, Kinky Friedman made a campaign stop at Urban Dog Coffee as he continues his bid for the Democratic nomination for agriculture commissioner. Given his close relationship with gubernatorial candidate Farouk Shami, who had five key campaign aides resign yesterday, we wanted to…
After a cursory glance at former FBI agent Danny Defenbaugh’s 92-page report released Monday afternoon at a press conference held by Dallas County Judge Jim Foster, we e-mailed Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, for a comment regarding the following: JCCW2761 reported that in early May 2008, he…
Judge Jim Foster conducted a news conference late this afternoon to tell anxious reporters that, well, he hadn’t yet read former FBI agent Danny Defenbaugh’s 92-page report about Constable Jaime Cortes, which Foster said his office had received just minutes prior to the 4 p.m. gathering inside the chambers of…
