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Us, we're eating lunch at our desks today, like always. But you can dine (for the odd, odd price of $12.76) with mayoral runoff candidates Tom Leppert and Ed Oakley at the Belo Mansion, where the Dallas Bar Association is hosting a forum at which the two gentlemen will try to win yer vote and, of course, your hearts. The forum, scheduled from noon till 1:15 p.m., is free and open to the public; the buffet's strictly optional. If you want to attend, just shoot an e-mail here. Just don't ask Tom Leppert, "Who the heck are you?" Because that's just stupid. --Robert Wilonsky
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