Going on a voting Spree: At bottom, Julie Doyle and Tim DeLaughter stump for Hillary Clinton before Saturday’s senatorial district convention on the SMU campus. I spent Saturday serving as a delegate at the Fightin’ 16th Senatorial District’s Democratic Convention at SMU’s Moody Coliseum, and I’m happy to report the…
You know who we feel for right now? Gary Fitzsimmons, who’s got a long Saturday ahead of him. Like, marathon long. There are 178 precincts in the 23rd Senatorial District — including Sandra Crenshaw’s, No. 3549. But as it turns out, despite Crenshaw’s claims in the item below, only one…
Sandra Crenshaw OK, so … deep breath. No doubt many of our Friends also read the FrontBurner, which means many of you are very, very familiar with the story of former city council person Sandra Crenshaw, who’s spent several weeks defending herself against allegations that on March 4 she absconded…
Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen has a super — and superdelegate — idea that includes Dallas. Awful nice of the Tennessee gov to throw some bidness Dallas’ way. But over on Politico.com today, there’s an interview with Phil Bredesen, who’s yet to cast his lot with either Hillary Clinton or Barack…
Housing Secretary Alphonso Jackson Friends of Unfair Park know all too well the hot water in which former Dallas Housing Authority president and CEO Alphonso Jackson’s bathing these days, so no point in rehashing it when the history lesson’s but a click away. But for those in need of more…
Lewisville-based Institute for Policy Innovation — the Dick Armey-founded “non-profit, non-partisan public policy ‘think tank'” — will be in D.C. this week, hosting a chitchat at the National Press Club called “Trade and the Race for the White House: Exploring the Candidates’ Positions.” John McCain’s sending someone: a former director…
The Washington Blade today looks into the rift in the gay community between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama supporters — and it specifically deals with the how the Stonewall Democrats of Dallas have had to deal with the fact that president Jesse Garcia lists Clinton as a “political hero” while…
In this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, Buzz talks about Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins’ defensiveness concerning criticism directed at him and his office. Watkins was asked about a few issues, most notably his decision to charge Lynn Flint Shaw with a misdemeanor instead of a felony for…
Why is Harriet Miers smiling? Because she knows ain’t nothing coming of this lawsuit. Harriet Miers fought the law — and the lawmakers ain’t havin’ none of it, finally. Miers, the former White House counsel and Dallas city council member now keeping a chair warm as a partner at Locke…
Once more, I’d like to comment the fine folks of the Fightin’ 1117 for running such an orderly precinct convention. One of the few, turns out. Our Boy Merten spoke with Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins for a piece running in next week’s paper version of Unfair Park –…
Last night, Daily Show correspondent Rob Riggle was in Plano covering Indecision ’08. OK, fine, not really. Nonetheless, here’s the clip for those who spent the better part of the night watching the “real” news — during which NBC’s Brian Williams actually said Hillary Clinton’s victories in Texas and Ohio…
Mark Graham Lorlee Bartos Schutze’s East Dallas comrade and Friend of Unfair Park Lorlee Bartos has been sending ’round town an e-mail bearing the subject heading: “Caucus at Precinct 3345 or why you should read your mail.” I asked her if she minded whether we posted the missive; she said…
From The Washington Post this morning comes this story, which tries to explain why Hillary Clinton is “the Grace Adler to [the gay community’s] Will Truman.” And it does so from the great Gun Barrel City, a short drive to the south of Dallas, where you’ll find one of the…
Some housecleaning this a.m., before finding out how Jessica and Greggo voted last night. We suggested these t-shirts yesterday, but after last night’s election results — Clinton wins Texas and Ohio, though Obama still’s the frontrunner among those who like math — a Friend of Unfair Park instead suggests these…
Seriously, caucusing in a firehouse looks much cooler than hanging out in an elementary school. By 7:15 p.m. very long lines stretched into the darkness outside the Precinct 1224 polling place — the fire station at Belmont and Abrams in Old East Dallas. When the Democratic lines were divided into…
See, if Pulle were still around, we’d be full of local results too — like, ya know, that little race for Dallas County Sheriff. Looks like it’ll be Lupe Valdez for the Dems — by a landslide. She’s got 56,112 votes so far — or damned near half of the…
Far as you know, this is not Noah Bailey. Just got back from my caucus at Eduardo Mata Elementary School in East Dallas, where 99 people showed up (approximately one third of our voter turnout). Personally I was hoping for some more fireworks — you know, a couple of thrown…
At 7:39 p.m., the line at Cigarroa Elementary was around the hallway and out the door. I dig the caucus process — it’s kinda like a neighborhood mixer, without the alcohol … which, at one point, we thought about going out to get, as 356 of us stood in the…
I had to squeeze my way through the crowd packing the gymnasium at Alex Sanger Elementary School for the Democrat caucus in Precinct 2228, which started promptly at 7:16 p.m. The noise level was so high that someone finally let out a screeching whistle to shut up everybody long enough…
We’re outs till Round 2 of the day’s events — there’s still a paper version of Unfair Park to get out the door. So, see you somewhere around 7:30ish with reports from Dem damned precinct conventions (or, if you must, the caucuses). Till then, of course, the big news from…
Herrera’s: Hillary Clinton ate here! Sort of. Got a media alert from the Clinton campaign that Hillary’d be lunching at Herrera’s today — the one on Denton Drive, near Love Field. And it promised big things — Queer as Folk star Robert Gant, Kansas Democratic Party vice chair Teresa Garcia…
Why, oh, why, do our fashionable Friends send such wonderful links too late to do anything about them? Because if I’d known about this a week ago, I would totally have bought this tee and worn it tonight (not because of the candidate affiliation necessarily, but because it’s a good…
