Gary Griffith — and Tom Hicks, come to think of it — may be all for Rudy Giuliani, but Jerry Jones is backing John McCain. So reports the Associated Press today, as it thumbs through the presidential candidates’ first-quarter finance reports and discovers that the Dallas Cowboys owner gave $2,300…
Sam Coats says if he’s elected mayor, he’ll undo at least one thing Mayor Laura Miller’s done. Which is more than any other candidate’s said about the current mayor. This morning we showed you the letter Mayor Laura Miller sent to Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau president and CEO Phillip…
On Friday, Mayor Laura Miller booted council member Angela Hunt off the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau board. The reason: Hunt’s opposition to the Trinity River toll road and her attempt to get a referendum on the ballot come November. Wrote the mayor in a missive to Phillip Jones, president…
We took this off Sam Coats’ Web site, because, damn it, it just makes us giggle. Just don’t let Dr. Seuss’ people see this. Well, it’s time, once again, for your end-of-the-week rankings of the top eight mayoral candidates. Usually when I do this I make it clear there is…
Hey, we didn’t say it. The 73-year-old mayoral candidate does in his new TV spot that debuted yesterday. And since we’re giving mayoral campaign ads plenty o’ play here at Unfair Park, we figured we’d slap it up here, in the interest of equal time. God knows it’s far better…
No need to go Gary Griffith’s Web site to see that nutty ad cry for help referred to below. We have it right here. And we’re gonna watch it over and over and over and over… –Robert Wilonsky…
Why do I (and the rest of the city, sooner or later) ask? Well, have you seen his new TV spot? No? Then, by all means, take a look, and then ask yourself, “What the eff does a tank cruising down a street in Iraq have to do with the…
Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III has put his church’s muscle behind Tom Leppert in a radio spot that busts, by our count, two and a half moves. So, we know the mayoral candidates are no good at making TV and Interwebs spots — well, except for Tom Leppert. (And, I…
Note to Max Wells: Make cooler videos. Remember, you like the kids now. You need them. You no longer want them off your front lawn. I am not exactly sure why Max Wells — or, more likely, his people — would feel the need to post to the Interwebs a…
That’s right, Don Hill. You are No. 1 on our hit parade this week. Hey, pal, you earned the right. I have a bit of a confession: I really like the candidates running for Dallas mayor. If I were 60 years older, I might even like to play shuffleboard with…
This was not paid for by the Friends of Gary Griffith. But it is a nice photo. Dallas city council member and mayoral candidate Gary Griffith has friends. Not surprising. Seems like a decent guy. Talked to him for a few pieces here and there, always called back promptly, always…
We’re not saying Matt Pulle has a man-crush on Sam Coats. We would never say it. Not outloud. Nope. Welcome to the second installment of Unfair Park’s weekly round-up of the top eight mayoral candidates. We shuffled part of the list around a little bit, not so much because anything…
How many things can you find wrong with this invitation to Central Dallas Ministries’ 12th Annual Urban Ministries Prayer Breakfast? (Hurry: Ed Housewright at Bold Types is already way ahead of you.) –Robert Wilonsky…
The city’s finding one way to narrow the mayoral wannabe field: by disqualifying all the interesting left-field candidates, including Edward Okpa. Edward Okpa, my favorite long-shot candidate for Dallas mayor, has been thrown off the ballot after the City Secretaty’s office found he didn’t submit enough signatures to qualify. (He…
Gary Griffith says of Tom Leppert and Max Wells: They “simply miss the mark.” Oh, no, he dint. Till now, Gary Griffith’s mayoral campaign has been distinguished by his taste for cheese and his profound ability to fear-monger in the absence of idea-mongering. (Most recently, he’s also come out for…
Yeah, that’s what is says in the press release we just got from Hill’s campaign…pardon, from Hill’s “Campaign of Courage.” (Wait — isn’t that also Jennifer Gale’s slogan? No? M’bad.) Anyway, here’s Don Hill’s crime-fighting plan. We’ll let Dave Levinthal check the sources, but we have a feeling this is…
Edward Okpa: If you aren’t gonna take him seriously as a mayoral candidate, then we will. Of course, look what happened to the last guy bestowed that particular honor. On Tuesday the Northwood Republican Women’s Club hosted a mayoral debate at a Luby’s on Hampton Road. OK, not so much…
At least this is a better photo than the one The News used today. When did Zac turn into a zombie, anyway? About an hour ago, Dave Levinthal over at The Dallas Morning News broke the news that former Dallas Observer music editor Zac Crain has been removed from the…
We are so not endorsing Rudy Giuliani, or any one else, in any way. But we couldn’t help but point out that Mayor Rudy, who comes to Dallas an awful lot trolling for dough as he gears up his run for the White House, will be down in Victory Plaza…
When I arrived at Mockingbird Station for the peace rally organized to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq — and to protest the George W. Bush presidential library at SMU — there were police cruisers everywhere. Three helicopters were flying overhead. “Wow, this must be pretty big,”…
Until Unfair Park called him at home this afternoon, mayoral candidate Sam Coats had only heard about Jim Schermbeck’s missive in which the enviromentalist and filmmaker brands Coats a hypocrite. As you no doubt read in the post below, Schermbeck is furious that Coats is running for mayor while also…
Waste not, want not: Sam Coats is on the board of directors at TXI, which ain’t no friend of the clean air. Till today, it’s likely most folks had no idea that mayoral candidate Sam Coats is on the board of directors of Texas Industries, better known as TXI, the…
