Brian Harkin Former president Bill Clinton, speaking moments ago to a small crowd near Grauwyler Park. A surreal scene a couple of hours ago, a real WTF moment: Bill Clinton, former president of the United States, standing in the back of a blue pick-up truck off Harry Hines Boulevard and…
Brian Harkin Barack Obama, speaking last week at Reunion Arena, hopes to create the same kind of event in Fort Worth on Thursday. I’m leaving shortly to see Bill Clinton speak at Grauwyler Park off Harry Hines Boulevard; was thinking of grabbing breakfast at the Original Market Diner anyway. Also,…
Courtesy Hillary Clinton’s campaign moments ago, an addendum to Bill Clinton’s campaign-stop schedule tomorrow: In addition to his trip out to Mountain View in the a.m., he’ll now be stopping by Grauwyler Park, off Harry Hines Boulevard, at 10 a.m. Which, not so coincidentally, was the site of a small…
After the jump, a sneak peek at the early voting numbers on the Democratic side of the ballot. The takeaway from the e-mail that landed in my in-box this a.m.: In the 2004 presidential primaries, a total of 53,713 ballots were cast in Dallas County. But, “at the end of…
More about security concerns following Barack Obama’s Reunion Arena rally — this time, from Bill Maher on his HBO show Real Time. At about 3:30 into the following clip from Friday night’s week’s episode, Maher brings up the subject with his panel, which includes former George W. Bush speechwriter (and…
Brian Harkin Barack Obama, speaking Wednesday at Reunion Arena Many of you have pointed out the apparently lax security at Barack Obama’ Reunion Arena rally last week. It was “non-existent,” wrote Friend of Unfair Park “RR” last week, “no metal detectors, hand-helds, anything.” The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Thursday that…
HillaryClinton.com Breaking news: Clear your schedules (OK, our schedules), as the campaign-trail parade continues. According to a woman in Hillary Clinton’s press office, Bill Clinton’s making several appearances in the area in coming days — beginning tomorrow morning. On Sunday, the former president will attend an early voting event in…
Merritt Martin Hillary Clinton in Oak Cliff this morning, with council member Vonciel Jones Hill (far left), U.S. congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (left) and council member Pauline Medrano (right) While thousands waited up, down and around the Reunion Arena parking garage to see Barack Obama Wednesday, a few hundred packed…
CNN Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton during last night’s CNN-Univision debate in Austin AUSTIN — I rolled into the University of Texas’ Recreational Sports Center a couple of hours before the Texas Democratic Debate between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama last night; also with me, several hundred of my…
KDFW-Channel 4 Hundreds gathered this morning for Hillary Clinton’s rally in Oak Cliff Schutze is at the Hillary Clinton gathering in an Oak Cliff parking lot, where Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price just exited the stage to strains of “Taking Care of Business,” and Jim sends back this report:…
HillaryClinton.com Hillary Clinton, speaking in McAllen earlier this month Forthcoming this morning is the return of Girl on Top, as Andrea Grimes recaps her experience at last night’s Democratic debate in Austin. But here’s late-breaking news for our Friends in Dallas and Tarrant counties: Hillary Clinton will speak somewhere between…
All I really wanted out of yesterday’s Obama rally coverage was this. And I found it. Thanks, Supafly2380. You too, No. 22. –Robert Wilonsky Update: Mike Fisher has the behind-the-scenes with Emmitt talking about precisely how he came to introduce Obama on Wednesday…
Brian Harkin Twenty bucks this photo winds up on this Web site before the end of the week. A few end-of-the-day options for your viewing pleasure (or not, if you happen to be killing time till the Huckabee-in in Plano): You can view Noah Bailey and art director Alex Flores’…
Noah W. Bailey Noah snapped this photo at 9 this morning — about the time he’d usually be waking up. For most of my 27 years, Democratic rallies in Dallas have been — how should I put this? — rather intimate affairs, with maybe a few hundred people even at…
Brian Harkin Barack Obama, speaking today at Reunion Arena Anyone who questions Barack Obama’s mounting momentum should have been at Reunion Arena this afternoon. Thousands of people waited in line for hours, only to be turned away. And when the fire marshals cut off the line and denied them entrance…
Ngan Wedemeier/University of Texas at Dallas The former First Daughter spoke this morning to a sweaty Student Union full of hundreds of University of Texas at Dallas students. Chelsea Clinton touring the area today on a college-campus trek aimed at getting The Kids to vote for her mother — you…
UTA prof and activist José Angel Gutiérrez, no fan of the Clintons Wonks, reporters and pundits have spent the past week speculating about the role Texas’ Latinos will play in the March 4 Democratic primary, and while most signs point to strong Hispanic support for Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama’s camp…
For those who actually have to work today and can’t attend Barack Obama or Chelsea Clinton’s appearances around town today, fret not: We’ll have folks at both Clinton’s speech this morning at the University of Texas at Dallas and Obama’s Reunion Arena rally. They’ll file throughout the course of the…
HillaryClinton.com No way we were going to let NBC’s David Shuster near this cutline. Bill Clinton’s stumping for his missus throughout the state this week: He’s in Galveston, Beaumont, Victoria, and Houston tomorrow, then in Midland/Odessa, Victoria and Houston again on Thursday. Which makes it twice in two weeks the…
Barack Obama’s campaign has, at long last, announced the time and place for his Wednesday shindig in downtown Dallas: It’ll take place at 11:30 a.m. at Reunion Arena, with doors opening at 10:30 a.m. Seems his local folks’ wishes were granted: Told you this morning they were hoping for a…
No word yet on when and where Barack Obama will be appearing Wednesday — not even his local campaign operatives know anything. And, yes, they too have heard all the rumors that have the Illinois senator appearing mid-morning at a local church, Fair Park or even the American Airlines Center…
Today, the ginormous 2-million-member Service Employees International Union, which reps everyone from nurses to janitors, endorsed Barack Obama for president of the U.S. and A. Which is no small thing: Says the union in its media release, it has “more than 150,000 members in the upcoming primary states, including Wisconsin,…
