Full Voter Assault

BarackObama.com Obama at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo this morning At around 10:30 this morning, I pulled up to Precinct 1224’s polling place, Fire Station No. 17, mindful of the two Obama peeps nearby. I started to walk into the fire station, when I heard a young girl yelling…

Honk at Rob Reiner. Do It!

Our Rich Lopez just had himself a nice lunch at Herrera’s Mexican Restaurant on Denton Drive — turns out, at the exact same moment Hillary Clinton was ordering votes with a side of queso. More from that forthcoming, but this just in from Clinton’s press peeps: At 4:30, Rob Reiner…

Judge Not, Election Judge

A good Friend of Unfair Park who cast his ballot today witnessed something today that ain’t … what’s the word I’m looking for … oh, yeah, legal: My elderly neighbor was voting with her husband, and neither of them knew anything about the Railroad Commissioner nominees. As they’re filling out…

Back to the Future With Bill Clinton

Brian Harkin Bill Clinton, campaigning for his Hillary in Grauwyler Park on February 26 More backward-glancing from the national media this a.m.: Just as The Washington Post revisited Barack Obama’s visit to Duncanville last week, The Los Angeles Times retraces Bill Clinton’s footsteps through the DFW one week ago today…

Dallas’ Black and Brown, In Black and White This Morning

Speaking of, this sounds looks good right about now. Last week, Adelfa Callejo got herself — and Hillary Clinton — in a wee spot of trouble, when the Latino-rights activist insisted that “when blacks had the numbers, they didn’t do anything to support us.” Today, the Chicago Sun-Times’ columnist Mary…

Just Which Candidate Captured “The Zeitgeist of the Moment”?

Simon Rosenberg, founder of the New Democrat Network This morning, The Washington Post uses last week’s Obama appearance in Duncanville to, once more, investigate the “movement” surrounding the senator from Illinois. Among those interviewed is a former Bill Clinton war roommate, Simon Rosenberg, who details the two campaigns’ different use…

Voting This Morning? No Prob.

So, that was anti-climactic. Took all of 10 minutes to vote, including drive time from and back to the house. No crowded parking lot, no line, no nothing except two campaign workers — one from Hillary Clinton’s camp, one from Barack Obama’s — shivering on the sidewalk, sharing a box…

Sign o’ the Times?

A hearty “mazel tov” is in order for Jim Schutze’s favorite blog (not including his own, natch): Back Talk Lakewood’s Friday item, about how the Clinton campaign appears to have paid a couple of guys to hold signs at Lovers Lane and Greenville Avenue, was picked up yesterday by Daily…

Clinton Folks Predict a “Major Surprise in Dallas and Fort Worth”

HillaryClinton.com Hillary Clinton’s campaign feels very good about carrying the DFW tomorrow — says so in today’s New York Times, right below a picture of Barack Obama campaign workers holding “Obama for President” signs. As in: Michael Trujillo, director of Mrs. Clinton’s Texas field offices, said the campaign had rapidly…

C’mon, UTD, No David Caruso?

Khamid Bakhadirov/UTD Right click, of course, to view a larger version of this image. Because you want to, you know it. Yesterday we mentioned Sophia Bush’s appearance at the University of Texas at Dallas, where she touted her choice for president, the apparently faint-worthy Barack Obama. (And if you’re anything…

Did Obama Throw a Town Hall Meeting or a Religious Revival?

Jonathan Finley For more photos from yesterday’s town hall meeting, there’s a slideshow right here. When I got back from Barack Obama’s town hall meeting at Duncanville High School last night, my friend Jeff called and said, “So, how was hanging out with the black Jesus?” Seems he’d had dinner…

Headache Hotel and Other Dallas City Council SUPs and WTFs

I’ve yet to attend a city council meeting I didn’t enjoy, and yesterday’s was no exception. How can one not feel satisfied after bearing witness to important votes on the convention center hotel and gas drilling, a council member admitting to witnessing a drug deal in progress and doing nothing…

Anchía, Lost in Translation

This just in from Dallas Rep. Rafael Anchía, concerning yesterday’s post about comments he made — or didn’t make — on Spanish radio yesterday, where it was reported “he is satisfied with the idea of becoming Dallas Mayor.” Writes Anchía, “Yes, the synopsis and translation is way off. The allusion…

Feel Free to Reject and Denounce This Item About Callejo and Clinton

Adelfa Callejo Amazing how these stories come out of nowhere and are suddenly everywhere and mean everything when it’s all just a big bunch of nothing. Few days ago, Adelfa Callejo was Dallas’ well-regarded 84-year-old Latino-rights activist about whom Stanford Law students wrote glowing biographies. She was also a Bill…

Bush for Obama! Bush for Obama!

Sophia, the one Bush we can get behind this election season As usual, a few election-related items of note this a.m. — these involving famous faces not running for office. A Friend of Unfair Park with impeccable taste points our attention back toward the University of Texas at Dallas –…

Did Rafael Anchía Just Say He Wants to be Mayor of Dallas?

Perhaps the translation’s slightly off, but it seems Dallas Rep. Rafael Anchía has given us a sneak peek into his future political plans. Today Radio Euskadi — which is broadcast throughout Basque Country in Spain, where Anchía’s family comes from — ran an interview with the Haynes & Boone attorney…

No Safety for Cliff Harris

I guess it makes sense, as the Dallas Cowboys great is an Arkansas native: Today Cliff Harris endorsed Mike Huckabee for president. As in, “Many told me I would never play in the NFL, let alone win a Super Bowl ring or two. Similar cynics may say the same thing…

Is it March 5 Yet?

HillaryClinton.com Feel the love, because come a week from today, we’re getting dumped. First thing’s first, as today Barack Obama’s in Duncanville at the Sandra Meadows Memorial Arena on Camp Wisdom; the so-called “Stand for Change” town hall event begins at 4:45 p.m., with doors opening two hours earlier, and…