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…
That’s what we gather by looking at the pics sent to us by Kurt Watkins, cousin and PR man to Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. Kurt also sends word that Craig endorsed Democratic gubernatorial primary frontrunner Bill White on Thursday, and the DA subsequently began campaigning for White during…
If today’s University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll — which had former Houston Mayor Bill White with a whopping 50-11 lead over Farouk Shami (30 percent claimed to be undecided) — wasn’t enough to hand the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to White, Shami ensured that the 10 million bucks he vowed to…
It’s obvious, apparently even to Debra Medina, that her three-paragraph explanation following her disastrous interview with Glenn Beck yesterday wasn’t enough to put the wheels back on her campaign. So Medina has decided to face the music, or in this case, a group of reporters anxious to hear WTF she…
Just when it looked like Debra Medina could maybe possibly somehow sneak her way past Kay Bailey Hutchison into a runoff with Rick Perry for a chance to grab the Republican nomination in November’s gubernatorial election, she melted down during an interview this morning with Glenn Beck, who questioned Medina…
A very amused Friend of Unfair Park sends word: The four Democratic candidates for Texas governor not named Bill White or Farouk Shami have sued KERA and North Texas Public Broadcasting in federal court down in Austin because they didn’t get invited to Monday’s debate held in Fort Worth and…
Hard to say how seriously to take the results of today’s Public Policy Polling press release that says Debra Medina’s becoming quite the player in the GOP gubernatorial race; after all, this is the same company that asked America the other day, “Saints or Colts?” (Saints all the way, but…
In the current paper version of Unfair Park, we detail the lengthy battle between Robert O’Donnell and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who extinguished O’Donnell’s child support collection business after several courtroom victories. Despite the efforts of Abbott and his office to find O’Donnell’s company non-compliant with federal law, several…
Tonight’s the Democratic gubernatorial debate at KTVT HQ in Fort Worth — can’t wait! In advance of what could be an epic showdown, “hair-care guru” Farouk Shami sends word that he’s picked up the endorsement of Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway following a Friday-night winding held by the Interdenominational…
For no other reason than sheer curiosity, I spent last night at WFAA studios for the taping of The Belo Debate featuring Republican gubernatorial primary candidates Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison and Debra Medina. I just had to know why dozens of journalists would pack themselves into a storage room…
Closing out a four-act revue of downtown’s political keepers last night, DowntownDallas CEO John Crawford promised good news, a “unique experience” of a town hall meeting and a look at the latest “vibrancy and excitement” in the heart of Dallas. That the big news included five new video boards, a dozen Supergraphics…
Described in today’s Wall Street Journal as “an obscure candidate” threatening to force a runoff between Governor Rick Perry and U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, Debra Medina sat down briefly with Unfair Park yesterday afternoon as she’s in town for tonight’s Belo debate. While Medina…
While combing through the recent campaign finance reports filings due Friday, we took notice of the one turned in by former Republican Judge David Kelton, who lost his robe in 2006 to Carlos Cortez, switched parties and is now battling Dale Tillery and Baltasar Cruz in the Democratic primary for…
First KERA wasn’t sure it would let Debra Medina participate in its Republican gubernatorial debate on the University of North Texas campus, which was held last week. Then, it extended an invite after all, and Medina did all right, all right. Then, Belo said, so sorry, but it wasn’t gonna…
Earlier today, Irving Mayor Herb Gears e-mailed The Dallas Morning News to let them know that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid “just called to inform me that pressing government business in our nation’s Capitol requiring his presence necessitates his having to postpone tomorrow’s planned events in the DFW area including…
That’s right. Wanna know why Johnny Gomez thinks he’s got a shot against incumbent Gary Fitzsimmons? Or why lawyer Clay Jenkins has been anointed by nearly every Dallas politico (including Fitzsimmons) as Jim Foster’s replacement? If so, the Preston Hollow Democrats (which are in desperate need of a Web site…
We admit that of the 14 contested primary races for Republican precinct chairs in Dallas County, the odds are that you aren’t paying attention to any of them, even if you live in those precincts. Heck, we hadn’t planned on it either until we discovered an intriguing battle up North…
Mike Rawlings and Mike Faenza of the Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance briefed the City Plan Commission this morning regarding the city’s goal of diverting those living in homeless shelters into 700 new units of permanent supportive housing. Their appearance was timely after last night’s brutal weather caused the city to…
A couple of weeks back, GOP gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina was demanding she get an invite to KERA’s January 14 debate at the Murchison Performing Arts Center on the University of North Texas campus. KERA spokesperson Meg Fullwood told us, look, she just needs to be patient: “We do not…
We just love shenanigans, so it’s no wonder why we found ourselves roped in by claims from Eric Johnson’s campaign that some of the petitions attached to state Representative Terri Hodge’s ballot application didn’t pass the smell test. It appeared as though Hodge, who submitted 610 signatures from registered voters…
