Perhaps the most interesting question after Saturday’s runoff election is the gay one: Did Ed Oakley lose votes because of his sexual orientation — or, at least, the way it became part of the campaign in recent weeks? Certainly many Friends of Unfair Park believe so, and if he did,…
A woeful but way better-than-expected 85,590 turned out to cast their vote for mayor, and they’ve chosen Tom Leppert. And it wasn’t even close: 49,512 votes to Ed Oakley’s 36,078. Good night, Dallas, and good luck. –Robert Wilonsky…
We haven’t called Tom Leppert for mayor yet. But Leppert’s people sure have. Oakley’s too, damned near. “It’s not looking good at this point,” Ed Oakley told KDFW-Channel 4 at 9:04 tonight — nonetheless, the nattily dressed council member said he was “cautiously optimistic” about gaining ground on his Republican…
Tom Leppert and some new friends — who, looks like, probably voted for the millionaire construction worker With 320 out of 470 precincts completely reporting, Tom Leppert still has a commanding lead: He’s got 57.76 percent of the vote now, which translates to 37,464 votes. Oakley — who had predicted…
One-hundred fifty-seven of 470 precincts have reported in now, and Tom Leppert’s still way up with 59.81 percent (or 26,440 votes) of the vote. Ed Oakley’s still got 40.19 percent, which translates to 17,767 votes. Matt reports that Leppert’s “destroying Oakley” in the north while “losing but holding his own”…
Matt Pulle’s scouring over spreadsheets at the moment, and he’s discovered that while Tom Leppert’s pulling in the Northern sector and Ed Oakley’s doing well south of I-30, Leppert’s still managing to keep it respectable in the Southern sector. In a number of individual northern precincts during early voting, Leppert…
While we’re waiting on more election result from Mr. Pulle over at Dallas County Elections HQ, here’s a missive from a Friend of Unfair Park who says he too experienced voting problems this gloomy Saturday: I got the same story at the Reverchon Park Rec Center this morning. The ballots…
“Math” Pulle just phoned from county election HQ and wanted to point out that after early voting on May 12, Leppert had a five percent lead over Oakley — now, he’s got a 19 percent lead. He’s just sayin’. Math also has some council updates. In Oakley’s old district, No…
Tom Leppert’s your early leader in early voting, but it’s early yet. Just ask Roger about last-second comebacks. …Tom Leppert, with 59 percent of the vote in early voting — which translates to 19,096 ballots cast his way. Ed Oakley, on the other hand, got 12,897 votes. Which means, as…
Several Friends have e-mailed, wondering if Matt Pulle will be reporting from county elections HQ tonight as he did back when we had 11 candidates from which to choose. Yup — and, from the sound of it last night ’round the office, Mr. Schutze will also join in the fun…
Last night, I attended my last event of Your 2007 Mayor’s Race, the Vickery Place Neighborhood Association Candidate Forum in East Dallas. To celebrate, I planned to grab a beer or two at my favorite drinking establishment, the bar at the Belmont Hotel in Oak Cliff. A little confused on…
Pardon, but what’s the big deal here? So Ed Oakley and a majority of his fellow council members voted on Wednesday to give $583,360 in tax abatements to Crow Holdings so Harlan Crow and his team could renovate the former Parkland Hospital on the corner of Maple and Oak Lawn…
This is the board of directors of Heritage Alliance. In case you were wondering. One of the two guys running for mayor is gay, though damned if I can tell which one. Good thing Reuters is bringing up the rear today in the parade of “Ed Oakley is gay” articles…
Tom Leppert’s getting a lot of free radio time thanks to Ed Oakley’s decision to ditch on-air debates. Yesterday came word that Ed Oakley was backing out of a debate with Tom Leppert scheduled for Friday on Mark Davis’ show on WBAP-AM (820). This morning, Craig Murphy, one of the…
Although the mayor’s race is apparently a dead heat, in a few days after next Saturday’s election, commentators will trot out authoritative explanations on why the winning candidate prevailed, as if they knew what would happen all along. It’s an age-old convention of political journalism. In the wake of a…
So, I just read this over at Dallas Blog: …A small group of influential women who work across the political spectrum raised money for Ed Oakley at a coffee Tuesday at the home of Lucy Billingsley, where Oakley said his polls show him two points ahead… And then I read…
Tom Leppert’s got a new spot appearing on yer local affiliates — and on his Web site too — and it turns out his vision for Dallas includes…a Starbucks on every corner. That is so The Onion, circa 1998. My vision for Dallas? It’s a Dallas that’s the safest city…
Um, is the answer “no,” or is this a trick question? Some random mayoral musings this a.m… In the Houston Chronicle this morning, our old pal and colleague Tom Korosec blames all those “Ed Oakley is gay” articles on TIme magazine. He also discovers that Texas Eagle Forum’s Cathie Adams…
OK, so you don’t believe Don Hill when he says he didn’t ask Tom Leppert for dough in exchange for his endorsement. But do you believe Leppert, when he says he has nothing to do with those hateful calls being placed by the the ultra-conservative Heritage Alliance Political Action Committee?…
There appeared in the Dallas Voice yesterday a story in which attorney John Barr — who was, till recently, Don Hill’s campaign treasurer — backs up Ed Oakley’s claims that Hill offered his endorsement to Oakley in exchange for his hiring Hill’s campaign staff. Two of Hill’s chief campaign staffers…
Yesterday evening, we heard from Ken Carter, one of Don Hill’s closest campaign advisors back when 43 people were running for mayor. Carter denied Ed Oakley’s allegations — which he made again to our own Matt Pulle last night — that Hill’s people went to Oakley and Tom Leppert to…
Well, he did it again. Last night at a mayoral forum at Paul Quinn College, Ed Oakley boasted that his campaign has such a broad range of support that both the NAACP and Harlan Crow have endorsed him. And this time, Oakley was half right. Setting up the most awkward…
