In a lengthy piece published early this morning, Politico notes Pete Sessions’s public stance on earmarks: “a symbol of a broken Washington to the American people.” Except, see, there was this one time, in 2008, when the Congressman from the Fightin’ 32nd “steered a $1.6 million earmark for dirigible research…
Via Swing State Project, we find a link to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s interview with WBAP-AM’s Mark Davis this morning, in which the senator said she’ll officially launch her gubernatorial campaign in August and then step down from the Senate “sometime October, November — that time frame.” According to the…
This is probably what happened: Angela Hunt got a phone call yesterday afternoon from Rudy Bush at The News, who wanted to know why the council person was one of seven to sign a letter telling Jerry Allen and the mayor, that, look, they’ll cut their own budgets, thanks very…
Regarding yesterday’s item concerning the Dallas City Council’s retreat to Paradise tomorrow, Jaynie Schultz, vice president of the Garrett Creek Ranch Conference Center, sends this reply about her family’s Very Special Gift to our elected officials:After learning that the Dallas City Council was potentially not going to hold their retreat,…
After serving eight years as a city plan commissioner and another eight as a council member representing some of North Dallas’s more upscale neighborhoods, 72-year-old Mitchell Rasansky is no longer roaming City Hall when he’s most needed. Replaced last month by Ann Margolin because of term limits, Rasansky now must…
I just found on YouTube a few clips in which Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s talking health care reform with members of the Dallas Tea Party. As it turns out, the senator met with several of their representatives Saturday morning at her Dallas offices; the Tea Party’s report from the get-together…
Dunno how this went unnoticed, but yesterday Dallas city council member Angela Hunt posted to her Web site a few paragraphs about how, look, she really doesn’t care that Mayor Tom Leppert didn’t make her a chair or vice-chair of one of the city council’s standing committees. Far as she’s…
Local MoveOn.org members had penciled in on today’s schedule a protest in front of Senator John Cornyn’s Spring Valley Road office, during which they had hoped to pressure the senator to support President Barack Obama’s public health care legislation. But when Paula Anderson, a MoveOn.org member and spokeswoman, showed up…
The spending gap between the two convention center hotel campaigns predictably didn’t mimic the narrow margin at the polls, as Harlan Crow’s $5.2 million anti-hotel effort dwarfed an otherwise impressive haul of more than $1.9 million by three pro-hotel committees. Nearly all of the funding for Crow’s campaign came from…
Yesterday, several of you wondered why the city of Dallas wasn’t doing anything to keep the United States Postal Service from moving some of its operations from the Dallas Main Post Office on I-30 to Coppell, as the USPS is considering. Well, this morning, Sam got hold of this missive…
After taking heat for being “invisible” while Governor Rick Perry rallied liberty-loving Texans with talk of secession and tax parties, Kay Bailey Hutchison declared today at Dallas County Republican Party Headquarters that she and not the governor stands poised to “rejuvenate” the Texas GOP. “That’s exactly why I’m running for…
Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman, whose Q&A with the editorial board at The News can be read in yesterday’s Points section, confirmed rumors that he’s considering a run against Democrat Allen Vaught for Texas House District 107. “I’ve heard the same rumors,” he tells Unfair Park. “I’m looking…
That’s what her campaign communications director, Hans Klingler, just told Unfair Park: U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s going to be at Dallas County Republican Party HQ on N. Central Expressway to “announce when she’s going to announce” her run for Texas governor. That’s just a brief peek at her remarks,…
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Iran student protests, which is why the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran and the Iran Society plan to rally outside the Earle Cabell Federal Building on Commerce Street. What time? Not sure. They only told the Associated Press “midday.”MoveOn.org is…
Speaking of the Bush library at SMU and all the stuff they gotta stick in it some day, a Friend of Unfair Park sends along this link to the George W. Bush Presidential Librarium, created by the guys responsible for Goodnight Bush for whom “themed attractions provide more entertainment than…
Till he gets his new SMU digs are done, George W. Bush is keeping his stuff in storage in Lewisville, and along with his futon, “grown-up” dresser and collection of framed mid-’80s Tom Cruise movie posters is Saddam Hussein’s pistol — quite the keepsake, as this is the very (unloaded)…
National Public Radio’s Wade Goodwyn headed out to Southfork Ranch yesterday for America’s Tea Party — alas, no Janeane Garofalo, though. Or Rick Perry either, though the governor did put in an appearance at a tea party out in Rockwall (hope he had time to grab a bite at the…
For weeks, the Dallas Tea Party has been calling out Janeane Garofalo in the hopes of getting the star of Wet Hot American Summer and The Truth About Cats & Dogs and noted Tea Party-crasher to attend Saturday’s America’s Tea Party at Southfork Ranch. Alas, it hasn’t worked — Garofalo…
I had the privilege and pleasure of riding shotgun with Jack E. Jett during yesterday’s broadcast of his Rational Radio show, during which he welcomed the most astounding what-the-what assortment of guests: Al B. Sure!, Bob Barker, Gennifer Flowers and Joe the Plumber — no, really. Anyway, during her appearance,…
Yesterday, State Sen. Florence Shapiro sent out the following tweet: Which directed our attention to this video from Our Boss’s sister…
Updated at 3:07 p.m. As we mentioned yesterday, the freshly inaugurated city council is set to approve a booting ordinance after the Economic Development Committee voted unanimously June 16 to put a modified version of the staff recommendation on tomorrow’s addendum. This didn’t make the Save Deep Ellum coalition happy,…
Angela Hunt’s been hearing it from supporters who’ve wondered in recent weeks why she shifted gears so suddenly on the convention center hotel. Once among the most vocal opponents of the city owning a hotel, she was among the council members who voted unanimously last week to fund the project…
