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  Let’s Have Some Fun Gaming D Magazine’s Mayoral ‘Poll’

  March 20 at 4 a.m.

  You don’t know this, because you don’t read D, the city magazine of Dallas, but they’ve been running a mayoral poll on their online Frontburner page. You click to vote for your favorite candidate. This week they admitted the poll probably is being gamed. Shawn Shinneman wrote: “It’s possible —...

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  Dallas Mayor’s Race Overrun With Anonymous Twitter Accounts

  March 15 at 4 a.m.

  ’Four years ago, the last time Dallas elected a mayor, the anonymous online high jinks were limited and mostly amusing. The dumb/brilliant Mayor Mike Rawlings Twitter parody @fauxmayormike and some enterprising cyber-squatting by opponents of then-candidate Casey Thomas livened things up. Wylie H, the website commenter turned social media soothsayer,...

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  Beto O'Rourke Is Officially Running for President

  March 14 at 4 a.m.

  Get ready for another round of text messages from Team Beto O'Rourke. According to social media reports from volunteers for the former El Paso U.S. representative's senatorial campaign, O'Rourke and his team sent out an email Wednesday afternoon, informing the volunteers that O'Rourke needed help pushing out some text messages...

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  Laura Miller Is a Savage, and in This Town That Is High Praise

  March 14 at 4 a.m.

  The City Council campaign in District 13 north of the Park Cities is shaping up to be strangely like a very important chapter in my own past, although it’s also totally different. Former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller (2002-2007) is running to unseat the incumbent, Jennifer Staubach Gates, who has represented...

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  Police Audio Reveals Elaborate Ongoing Lie in Accusation Against Scott Griggs

  March 13 at 4 a.m.

  The mayor of Dallas and the editorial page of The Dallas Morning News have revived an incident from 2015 in which Dallas City Councilman Scott Griggs, now a candidate for mayor, was accused of violently threatening a city official, then-Assistant City Secretary Bilirae Johnson. A Dallas County grand jury dismissed...

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  Dallas GOP’s Reagan Day Dinner Lineup Has to Be Seen to Be Believed

  March 12 at 4 a.m.

  There's parody, self-parody and then whatever the hell the Dallas County Republican Party is doing with the lineup it's put together for its annual Reagan Day Dinner next week. The slate of speakers the local GOP has assembled is so absurd that, when first spotted in the wild by the...