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…
Zac Crain has some thoughts about Deep Ellum. Any other mayoral candidates wanna play? Yesterday’s Deep Ellum posting (the 426th in a series, I believe) stirred quite the conversation concerning the fate of the neighborhood. Buried beneath the torrent of comments (56 and counting), a Friend of Unfair Park directed…
Sam Coats is running for mayor. You knew that, right? Because I totally forgot. Well, we just got the press release from Sam Coats’ folks informing us who’s going to be running his mayoral campaign, and top o’ the list is Jason Stanford, who used to call us all the…
After a stream of virulent comments posted to Unfair Park in response to items I’ve written on immigration issues, I thought I’d respond and clarify a few things. First, so you know what I’m talking about, here’s a sampling, the first comment posted by my favorite Unfair Park screen name,…
It didn’t take long for the ol’ Clinton charm to hypnotize the crowd at the former Prez’s speaking engagement last night at the Nokia Theater at Grand Prairie. After a sustained standing ovation, the first thing out of his mouth was, “Thank you. This must be about 90 percent of…
Terri Leo doesn’t like the gays. Or maybe she just doesn’t get them. Got a little time to kill this morning? Good, because the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund has just issued its latest report on the religious right’s influence on Texas government, God’s Lawgivers? Carrying the Water for the…
Sara Taylor, the White House’s political director, will speak tonight to the Republican Jewish Coalition. And probably have a nosh too. Maybe you’ll never get to be in the same room as Bush’s Brain, Karl Rove. I’ve actually stood next to the man — he was in the lobby of…
Don Hill looks like a man who wants to be mayor. Or he’s just wanting for a phone call from the F.B.I. Hate to tell this to our pal Zac Crain — who, we find out in this morning’s paper, is one powerful dude — but he is no longer…
Things be gettin’ uh-guh-lee in the legal battle over TXU’s proposed new 11 coal-fired power plants that will, in all probability, choke us to death. Today the Texas Clean Air Cities Coalition (or the TCACC), fronted by Mayor Laura Miller, is going to try to force TXU — and, specifically,…
