This morning, Roger Friedman of FOX News has cobbled together a series of old newspaper clips and federal tax returns in an effort to make sense of the Oprah Winfrey-Harold Simmons love affair. Because, after all, Winfrey was chief among Barack Obama’s backers, while the Dallas billionaire and Swift Boat…
Regrets, he’s had a few: President Bush has done a lot of navel-gazing in recent days — on CNN earlier this month, followed by a sit-down with his sister Doro Bush Koch on behalf of StoryCorps, excerpts from which began appearing Friday. Tonight comes the former and future Dallas resident’s…
Wonkette this morning ran an e-mail from a Texan who wants to secede from the Union — what else is new, right? The reason for the missive, which lays out the ways in which the great state will survive all by its lonesome, thanks very much? Writes the mysterious Hotmailer:…
This morning, Harper’s tallies up the lists of President Bush’s pardons past and present and comes up with the following conclusion: “Texas S&L Swindlers Need Apply.” Seems almost retro in retrospect — nostalgic, even, like new-wave hits of the ’80s, as the magazine even brings up the 2004 pardon of…
Several SMU items of note today, because we’d be remiss if we went the day without mentioning something said yesterday on MSNBC. After the jump, Daily Beast Tina Brown’s appearance last night on The Rachel Maddow Show, which was guest-hosted by Alison Stewart. The reason we mention it? Brown talks…
Linda Harper-Brown, who doesn’t look happy even in her campaign Web site photo By now, you’re probably aware that a week after Election Day, the dust hasn’t settled in Irving, where three-term incumbent Linda Harper-Brown and Democratic challenger Bob Romano are still tussling over who gets to rep Texas House…
BarackObama.com A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to this photo of Barack Obama, which was taken by his campaign staff on Election Day. For at least three other Friends of Unfair Park, University of Texas grads all, this will prove much better than porn for a good day…
Surely you’ve seen the stats by now: 289,092 Dallas County voters went straight-party Democrat on Tuesday, 422,242 folks filled in their bubbles blue for Obama, and even Rick Noriega bested John Cornyn here by some 82,000-plus votes. Elsewhere, Burnt Orange Report proclaimed, “The Death of Travis County Republicans,” which seems…
Flickr photo: Obama__Dallas (Adam Jefferson) Ron Kirk, speaking briefly at Gilley’s on Tuesday night before heading home to celebrate his friend’s election in private On Tuesday night, Ron Kirk dropped by Friendship-West Baptist Church on Wheatland Road to address the Obama faithful, then drove to Gilley’s, where he spoke yet…
Dianne Wray Among the items for sale last night at the Obama for America party at Gilley’s In our last last-night round-up, a tale of three parties – most of which involved drinking and staring at televisions. We’ll begin with the biggest: the Obama Dallas for America party at Gilley’s,…
Flickr photo: Obama__Dallas (Adam Jefferson) Love this picture of Ron Kirk taken last night at the Obama victory shindig at Gilley’s on 1135 S. Lamar Street, not the one in Chicago. Very handsome. Almost … mayoral. Cabinet material, at least. –Robert Wilonsky Update: Just spoke with Kirk’s assistant at Vinson…
Daniel Rodrigue Bishop Arts last night, jam-packed with drinky Dems Hundreds of people packed Bishop Street last night, filling the sidewalks of Oak Cliff’s arts district and watching the election returns on huge screens erected outside the shops and cafes. As the Happy Bullets played on stage and Barack Obama…
From Dallas Weekly to the White House? Could happen. From humble beginnings, he has risen. In a white man’s world, he has conquered. Not this guy. This guy. Oh, I guess Barack Obama has done pretty well for himself, too. First black President. Prompting optimism in America throughout the world…
Sam Merten Lowell Cannaday and his wife Rose, who was choked up during her hubby’s speech After John Carona, Dan Branch, Angie Chen Button and Pete Sessions celebrated the handful of victories by the Republican Party in Dallas County, Lowell Cannaday — who I had been trying to track down…
Daniel and Megan, frustrated by crapped-out WiFi all night, send this brief dispatch from the Democrats’ victory bash in Bishop Arts. More from them tomorrow, with plenty of pretty pictures. Leading the crowd in triumphant cheers of “Yes, we can!” and “Yes, we did!,” State Sen. Royce West and plenty…
Brian Harkin Barack Obama, speaking at Reunion Arena in February — nine months before he was elected President of the United States … Barack Obama is the president-elect, say Fox News and NBC and CNN. And he crushed John McCain in Dallas County. With 654 of 708 precincts reporting, Obama…
Well, uh, here we are at the big Election Night bash in the home of our only Park Cities friends. And, uh … nobody else is here. It’s kind of, how you say, awkward. We parked three blocks away because we know how parked up it gets in the Park…
Matt Pulle Although Allen Vaught is still locked in a tight contest with Republican challenger Bill Keffer — it’s Vaught by 51 percent to 46 percent with 43 of 55 precincts reporting — the Democratic state representative doesn’t seem too nervous as the results trickle in. I swear his campaign…
Sam Merten Dallas County Commissioner Maurine Dickey Things are looking bleak for the GOP, but you don’t have to be at the Radisson to know that. We’re still trying to locate Lowell Cannaday, who’s behind 56 percent to 44 percent with 420 of the 708 precincts reporting. But, in the…
With 200 of Dallas County’s 708 precincts reporting, Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez maintains her lead over challenger Lowell Cannaday: 313,083 (or 56.24 percent of the vote) to 243,632 (43.76 percent). Sam’s with the Republicans and will have more comments and photos from the GOP un-shindig shortly — only, as…
T.D. Jakes of The Potter’s House in Dallas was, moments ago, in the middle of telling David Gregory on MSNBC that “it’s anybody’s game” and that “in many cases, we’ve underestimated Sen. McCain,” when Gregory broke in with the news: NBC News has called Ohio for Obama. Dallas County now…
State Rep. Allen Vaught Lauren Mish, the youngish campaign manager for Allen Vaught, is confident that her candidate will score a victory over former Lakewood-area state Rep. Bill Keffer, the Republican challenger. Talking to her as she set up her laptop in the front corner of the boisterous Lakewood Tavern,…
