Okpa Out, But Not Down

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…

Don Hill’s Faith-Based Plan For…Crime-Fighting?

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…

The Elite Eight, or: Get Your Mayoral Brackets Ready!

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…

War Protest, What Is It Good For?

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,”…

Re: Sam Coats’ Concrete Problem

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…

Sam Coats’ Concrete Problem

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…

Fritz the Cat

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…

Luck of the Draw

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…

Really, The Punch Line to This Posting is at the Very Bottom

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…

Junk Mail

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…

Deny or Approve?

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: No More Flip-Flopping (Stomach, Anyway)

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…

Zzzzz…Huh? Oh Yeah. That Mayor Thingy.

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…

Griffith and Wells: Eww, Tube.

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…

Crazy About Dallas!

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…

Equal Time or Somesuch

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…