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…
On Tuesday, state Senator John Carona said he’d “give consideration” to a mayoral run should Tom Leppert vacate office early in pursuit of Kay Bailey Hutchison’s U.S. Senate seat. A top Republican in the state and one of several names included among Leppert’s potential would-be successors in Sunday’s story in…
On January 14, KERA will broadcast, statewide, a GOP gubernatorial debate beginning at 7 p.m.; it will take place at the Murchison Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of North Texas in Denton. As you can see from The Texas Debates home page, Rick Perry and Kay…
For more than a year, Smokey Joe Barton’s been trying to kill the Bowl Championship Series — most recently, of course, with H.R. 390: College Football Playoff Act of 2009, which would …… prohibit, as an unfair and deceptive act or practice, the promotion, marketing, and advertising of any post-season…
For reasons we can’t explain, politicos are sticking by state Representative Terri Hodge in her bid for an eighth term in office despite the pending March 8 trial for her role in the federal corruption case involving affordable-housing developer Brian Potashnik. Her host committee includes longtime supporters, among them Dallas…
National Public Radio just posted a piece of its All Things Considered piece on the Dallas Tea Party; the audio, of course, won’t be available till this evening for those who aren’t going to listen live sometime after the show’s 4 p.m. kick-off on KERA-FM (90.1). What do we learn…
In late August, Kim spoke with Phillip Dennis, head of the Dallas Tea Party, about his aspirations for the group. This is what he told her:I believe in what we’re doing. I believe in this movement. I think this really is the beginning of the second revolution of America. It’s…
For polling purposes, Rasmussen Reports pretended the Tea Party movement organized as a political party and then tossed it into a ménage with the GOP and Dems. On a generic congressional ballot test using the three parties, 23 percent of respondents to a national telephone poll voted for the Tea…
When we cornered Houston Mayor Bill White in late October after his campaign speech in Plano, he said he can appeal to conservatives and moderates as a Democrat because he knows how to make government run efficiently. He added that he’s “honest and straightforward,” which had been tested when we…
Despite the length of our cover story on the GOP gubernatorial primary, my discussion with former city council member Donna Blumer about Republican Party of Texas chair Cathie Adams didn’t make the cut. Knowing Adams would become newsworthy again in short order, I tucked away my notes, and sure enough,…
Remember when David and Shannon Croft sued the state because they didn’t want their kids, then enrolled in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch school district, to recite the Texas Pledge of Allegiance? Yup. Totally forgot about that one. That was two long years ago — back when the Crofts also sued the…
I hate that I have plans for Thursday. I’d much rather be at Eddie Deen’s, where the Greater Dallas Republicans have a fundraiser scheduled: “Boot Scootin’ With Mayor Tom Leppert.” Or, maybe, “Boot Scootin’ With Mayor Tom Leppert … Through the Holidays.” Hard to say just what the event’s formal…
There’s a reason why I went to see Houston Mayor Bill White during his stop in Plano last month. It wasn’t because he was one of many folks vying for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s job in the Senate, although I suppose that would have warranted the trip. Nope. I’ve long viewed…
