Debbie Dudley Branson Today, reporters were allowed to eavesdrop on the weekly conference call with major donors to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. And Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic Monthly reports back with this gem: Dallas’s Debbie Branson, a former president of the state trial bar, implored the campaign to send…
Former Texas Land Commissioner Garry Mauro Last I saw, Barack Obama was still trying to decide whether he’d participate in the MSNBC debate scheduled for February 28 in Houston, in advance of the March 4 Texas primaries. Hillary Clinton wants four more debates before she and Obama go after Texas’…
Alphonso Jackson has many friends — including, apparently, legendary songwriter and producer Kenny Gamble More Alphonso Jackson news — and this time, it involves allegations that the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department Secretary retaliated against the Philadelphia Housing Authority for failing to give a buddy of Jackson’s a $2-million…
Brian Harkin Ah, well, Rudy — we’ll always have Wild About Harry’s. John Edwards is out, as of moments ago. Rudy Giuliani is out, as of last night’s Florida juicing, which should give Tom Hicks a little more free time to further ruin his various sports franchises. And Hillary Clinton’s…
Mark Graham Attorney Fred Baron, Dallas Dems’ fave bread-maker The Houston Chronicle this morning tallies up the state’s biggest political donors in 2007 — “a year in which there were no high-profile races and only a few constitutional amendments on the ballot” — and second only to Houston home builder…
Jim Bowles, former (and, he hopes, future) Dallas County sheriff In this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, we take a look at former Dallas County Sheriff Jim Bowles’ attempt at getting back his old job. He had plenty to say — too much to squeeze into the pages of…
More or less, Paul Burka of Texas Monthly anoints State Rep. Rafael Anchía as governor of Texas … in 2018. But only after he’s served as Dallas mayor. As in, “With the triumph of Dallas mayor Rafael Anchía as the first Hispanic governor, another watershed election has occurred, this one…
Um, did anyone else know Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck and Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief were meeting with President Bush and Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez today, to discuss expanding free trade agreements? Well, if you didn’t, there’s a report here from the meeting, at which…
If you’re looking to get on the primary election ballot, keep in mind today’s your last day to file, so you’d better hop to. And if you’re only curious about who’s already filed, well, the Dallas County Democratic Party has its list available on the left side of the page,…
It all began on May 5, 2006, when the Dallas Business Journal reported that during an April 28, 2006, speech in Dallas, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson said he wouldn’t award HUD contracts to folks who “have a problem” with his boss and good pal President Bush…
Barack Obama officially added his name to the roster of Democratic presidential candidates taking part in the March 4 Texas primary, which may or may not mean something that late in the ball game. Well, he didn’t do it. Obama had former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk filing his paperwork today,…
Pardon our absence — server issues, in short. So, back to business. Courtesy The New York Times’ Bloggingheads today comes this video, featuring Time’s Amy Sullivan and The Dallas Morning News’ Rod Dreher. They “examine the growing appeal of Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama.” Feel free to examine, after the…
Plenty of news from last night’s CNN/YouTube Republican debate — like, oh, did Hillary Clinton’s peeps plant a plant in the audience to ask the candidates about gays serving in the military. Also, from Dallas, came The Question of the Night: Asked Joseph Dearing, “Do you believe every word of…
Last week, Dallas oilman T. Boone Pickens was in Washington, serving as chairman of a 40th anniversary shindig for The American Spectator. On November 6, Pickens apparently said he’d give $1 million to anyone who could disprove a single one of the allegations made by the Swift Boat Veterans for…
Brian Harkin Fox News would like us to suppress our use of this photo of Rudy G. at Wild About Harry’s. But Judith Reagan said it was OK. Courtesy Damon Frazier of Plano-based Frazier Photography & Video, we’ve been invited to the September 8 Rudy Giuliani fund-raising shindig at Lombardo…
Over at Dissident Voice, which is not owned by our parent company, Cindy Sheehan this morning recounts her recent visit to the University of Dallas, where she spoke at the invitation of the chairman of the economics department, Samuel Bostaph. Sounds like a hoot: Surprisingly, my friend Sam, received little…
Our Man With Nothing Better to Do on a Tuesday Night, Matt Pulle, will be blogging live from election headquarters tonight, bringing the results of the all-important hides and animal inspector prop vote as they come in, starting around 7 p.m. He may even have something to say about the…
Trinity River Expedition’s Charles Allen was Julia Barton’s guide for her Weekend America story over the weekend. Ten years ago, former Dallas Observer contributor Julia Barton wrote on Salon about the giant ball of flaming space rock that destroyed Dallas — c’mon, you don’t remember NBC’s Asteroid? On Saturday, on…
On the YouTubes, TrinityVote has posted three “Vote Yes” ads, in addition to Justin Spence’s Mac-PC parody that Angela Hunt had redone for use on local TV (though why they didn’t completely excise the bleeped-out “fuckin'” is a bit of a head-scratcher, since WFAA-Channel 8 won’t run the thing till…
Yes, we know — this picture’s out-of-focus. Thanks. Not our fault. Neither is the defacing, by the way. Swear. Jim Schutze can’t account for his whereabouts 30 minutes ago, which is interesting, because right around that time, someone vandalized some Vote No! Save the Trinity signs at two early voting…
Dallas’ powerful Democratic fund-raiser Cappy McGarr, at left, with a couple of other dudes Amazing the things you learn on the Interwebs. Like, before I read this Fortune story this morning, I don’t know if I’d ever heard the name Cappy McGarr — sounds like an Irish pirate, y’ask me…
Our friends over at Austin-based Texans for Public Justice sent word this a.m. they’ve just unleashed to the Interwebs an online report titled, bwah-haw-haw, Money in PoliTex, which, they promise, “analyzes the $158 million in campaign funds raised by 378 candidates for major statewide offices and the Texas Legislature.” (I…
