Today, the ginormous 2-million-member Service Employees International Union, which reps everyone from nurses to janitors, endorsed Barack Obama for president of the U.S. and A. Which is no small thing: Says the union in its media release, it has “more than 150,000 members in the upcoming primary states, including Wisconsin,…
Still no word if or when Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton are coming to town, but Bill Clinton will be kinda close tomorrow — Tyler’s, what, 90 miles east? Hillary’s campaign just sent over the details of the ex-president’s trip to East Texas tomorrow, well in advance of the March…
Two Huffington Post pieces to point out this a.m.: The first is from Mayhill Fowler, who’s on the ground with the Clinton campaign as it skitters across Texas today. Writes Fowler, if Hillary takes Houston, she’ll take Texas — and, yup, has to do with the Latino vote, because Clinton’s…
Hillary Clinton’s campaign peeps just sent her Texas schedule for tomorrow: 9 a.m. at the McAllen Convention Center, 1 p.m. at the Richard M. Borchard Regional Fairgrounds in Robstown, 6:30 p.m. in the St. Mary’s University Gymnasium in San Antonio — where Texas State Representative Trey Martinez Fischer endorsed Barack…
Jim Moore — same feller who co-wrote Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential with DMN’er Wayne Slater — has, like Mary Mapes last week, posted to The Huffington Post a “Why Texas matters” essay concerning the March 4 Democratic primary. Takeaway for further discussion: “Obama will…
The official word is Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will debate in Austin on February 21, and it’ll be carried on both CNN and Univision — kickoff’s at 7 p.m., so prepare your pregame festivities accordingly. Out of curiosity this afternoon, I Googled the phrases “Obama Dallas” and “Clinton Dallas”…
Upper Deck’s Presidential Predictors trading card collection, featuring caricatures of candidates in classic baseball poses, was released on Wednesday; Dallas-based Beckett Media was first to bring the news of the set last week. Only, when you go to the official Upper Deck site, where you’ll also find word of a…
Gary Fitzsimmons and two Dallas County colleagues have come out for Obama. In case you were waiting to choose a presidential candidate till you found out who Dallas County District Clerk Gary Fitzsimmons, Dallas County Treasurer Joe Wells and Dallas County Clerk John Warren were voting for, well, the trio’s…
Former CBS producer Mary Mapes Just noticed over on The Huffington Post that Jim Schutze’s neighbor, Mary Mapes, wrote a piece about how the Texas primaries on March 4 will actually mean something, if you hadn’t already figured it out — and by something, Mapes writes, the primaries mean “maybe…
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…
