The city’s finding one way to narrow the mayoral wannabe field: by disqualifying all the interesting left-field candidates, including Edward Okpa. Edward Okpa, my favorite long-shot candidate for Dallas mayor, has been thrown off the ballot after the City Secretaty’s office found he didn’t submit enough signatures to qualify. (He…
Gary Griffith says of Tom Leppert and Max Wells: They “simply miss the mark.” Oh, no, he dint. Till now, Gary Griffith’s mayoral campaign has been distinguished by his taste for cheese and his profound ability to fear-monger in the absence of idea-mongering. (Most recently, he’s also come out for…
Yeah, that’s what is says in the press release we just got from Hill’s campaign…pardon, from Hill’s “Campaign of Courage.” (Wait — isn’t that also Jennifer Gale’s slogan? No? M’bad.) Anyway, here’s Don Hill’s crime-fighting plan. We’ll let Dave Levinthal check the sources, but we have a feeling this is…
Edward Okpa: If you aren’t gonna take him seriously as a mayoral candidate, then we will. Of course, look what happened to the last guy bestowed that particular honor. On Tuesday the Northwood Republican Women’s Club hosted a mayoral debate at a Luby’s on Hampton Road. OK, not so much…
At least this is a better photo than the one The News used today. When did Zac turn into a zombie, anyway? About an hour ago, Dave Levinthal over at The Dallas Morning News broke the news that former Dallas Observer music editor Zac Crain has been removed from the…
We are so not endorsing Rudy Giuliani, or any one else, in any way. But we couldn’t help but point out that Mayor Rudy, who comes to Dallas an awful lot trolling for dough as he gears up his run for the White House, will be down in Victory Plaza…
When I arrived at Mockingbird Station for the peace rally organized to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq — and to protest the George W. Bush presidential library at SMU — there were police cruisers everywhere. Three helicopters were flying overhead. “Wow, this must be pretty big,”…
Until Unfair Park called him at home this afternoon, mayoral candidate Sam Coats had only heard about Jim Schermbeck’s missive in which the enviromentalist and filmmaker brands Coats a hypocrite. As you no doubt read in the post below, Schermbeck is furious that Coats is running for mayor while also…
Waste not, want not: Sam Coats is on the board of directors at TXI, which ain’t no friend of the clean air. Till today, it’s likely most folks had no idea that mayoral candidate Sam Coats is on the board of directors of Texas Industries, better known as TXI, the…
Bill Richardson wants to be president. Like, who doesn’t? Got $500 to burn and a soft spot for the pudgy, bolo-tie wearing, diplomacy-touting governor of New Mexico? Then Unfair Park has the Saturday-night soiree for you: Some half dozen of Dallas’s Latino elite are hosting a cocktail reception and campaign…
It’s Friday night and you got nothing to do? Well, this sounds like a sure-fire way to have yerself some fun: listening to Walter Mondale talk. Yup, the former vice president named “Fritz” will be speaking tonight at 7:30 at the Dallas Democratic Forum’s 30th Anniversary…uh…celebration? And it’ll only cost…
The mayoral candidates just finished down at City Hall drawing envelopes to pick their slots on the ballot, and turns out, the man at the top of the ballot will be…John Cappello, so looks like he’s your next mayor. Our pal Zac Crain wound up at No. 8 — “my…
Tom Leppert said something last August that turned out to be, like, not true or something? Recently, Unfair Park, has expressed irritation at Tom Leppert’s penchant for regaling the audience with his high-altitude exploits in the business world. We’ve sat through five hours of mayoral forums so far, and Leppert…
After the jump, Patrick “Buzz” Williams puts his stamp on some mayoral-candidate mailers that arrived this week. We just didn’t want Max Wells, Tom Leppert, Darrell Jordan and Sam Coats to feel as though their money was going to waste…
I just received a MySpace friend request from Don Hill. Seriously. “Don Hill…wants to be your friend!” the request reads. Then I open up his page (because, naturally, you gotta investigate the profile before you approve or deny the request) and feel slightly less special as it’s not just Don…
Zac Crain, who apparently used to work here, turned in his paperwork today, which means he’s now (almost) an official candidate for mayor. Our pal Zac Crain just called from the car — on his way back from City Hall, where he dropped off his paperwork to git himself on…
Have you heard? Tom Leppert is a businessman. There is the glamourous and consequential side of journalism: Covering a presidential race, writing about a war, detailing the side effects of a new cancer drug, profiling Maggie Gyllenhaal. And there is this: Attending a debate for Dallas mayor at 7:30 in…
Say “cheese.” Actually, could ya stop? Yeah, that would be swell. A few mayoral-race notes this a.m.: First, in this morning’s in-box was a missive from a Friend of Unfair Park instructing me to look at Allen Gwinn’s Web site, specifically yesterday’s item titled “Mayor Candidate Gary Griffith: Truth? Ethics?”…
By now, you’ve no doubt seen Gary Griffith’s anti-cheese ad; wow, really going out on a limb there, hunh, coming out against drugs. (Why “ironically called cheese,” incidentally?) If you haven’t seen the ad, which Griffith’s peeps posted to YouTube this morning, here it is: Silly, innit? But we have…
We love this photo of Max Wells, because it suggests Max Wells already believes he’s mayor. Actually, Ed Oakley already has the job of pretend mayor. They made the WaMu Banker’s Pen look like the cast of Lost. We’re talking about the top-tier candidates for mayor, who last night gathered…
We gets plenty of…uh…interesting mail at Unfair Park. Like the missive we got this week from Richard “Richie” Sheridan, who is indeed among the flock that’s filed to be Your Next Mayor. Sheridan sent us an open letter to Mayor Laura Miller concerning her recent appearance on KERA-TV’s Think, in…
Last I looked, only five people had seen this video, posted today on GooTube, of Dallas mayoral candidate Jennifer Gale — “the homeless, transgendered former Marine [who’s] a bit of a legend in City Hall circles,” says here. Well, we aim to fix that. Me, I also dig the introduction…
