Ngan Wedemeier/University of Texas at Dallas The former First Daughter spoke this morning to a sweaty Student Union full of hundreds of University of Texas at Dallas students. Chelsea Clinton touring the area today on a college-campus trek aimed at getting The Kids to vote for her mother — you…
UTA prof and activist José Angel Gutiérrez, no fan of the Clintons Wonks, reporters and pundits have spent the past week speculating about the role Texas’ Latinos will play in the March 4 Democratic primary, and while most signs point to strong Hispanic support for Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama’s camp…
For those who actually have to work today and can’t attend Barack Obama or Chelsea Clinton’s appearances around town today, fret not: We’ll have folks at both Clinton’s speech this morning at the University of Texas at Dallas and Obama’s Reunion Arena rally. They’ll file throughout the course of the…
HillaryClinton.com No way we were going to let NBC’s David Shuster near this cutline. Bill Clinton’s stumping for his missus throughout the state this week: He’s in Galveston, Beaumont, Victoria, and Houston tomorrow, then in Midland/Odessa, Victoria and Houston again on Thursday. Which makes it twice in two weeks the…
Barack Obama’s campaign has, at long last, announced the time and place for his Wednesday shindig in downtown Dallas: It’ll take place at 11:30 a.m. at Reunion Arena, with doors opening at 10:30 a.m. Seems his local folks’ wishes were granted: Told you this morning they were hoping for a…
No word yet on when and where Barack Obama will be appearing Wednesday — not even his local campaign operatives know anything. And, yes, they too have heard all the rumors that have the Illinois senator appearing mid-morning at a local church, Fair Park or even the American Airlines Center…
Today, the ginormous 2-million-member Service Employees International Union, which reps everyone from nurses to janitors, endorsed Barack Obama for president of the U.S. and A. Which is no small thing: Says the union in its media release, it has “more than 150,000 members in the upcoming primary states, including Wisconsin,…
Still no word if or when Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton are coming to town, but Bill Clinton will be kinda close tomorrow — Tyler’s, what, 90 miles east? Hillary’s campaign just sent over the details of the ex-president’s trip to East Texas tomorrow, well in advance of the March…
Two Huffington Post pieces to point out this a.m.: The first is from Mayhill Fowler, who’s on the ground with the Clinton campaign as it skitters across Texas today. Writes Fowler, if Hillary takes Houston, she’ll take Texas — and, yup, has to do with the Latino vote, because Clinton’s…
Hillary Clinton’s campaign peeps just sent her Texas schedule for tomorrow: 9 a.m. at the McAllen Convention Center, 1 p.m. at the Richard M. Borchard Regional Fairgrounds in Robstown, 6:30 p.m. in the St. Mary’s University Gymnasium in San Antonio — where Texas State Representative Trey Martinez Fischer endorsed Barack…
Jim Moore — same feller who co-wrote Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential with DMN’er Wayne Slater — has, like Mary Mapes last week, posted to The Huffington Post a “Why Texas matters” essay concerning the March 4 Democratic primary. Takeaway for further discussion: “Obama will…
The official word is Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will debate in Austin on February 21, and it’ll be carried on both CNN and Univision — kickoff’s at 7 p.m., so prepare your pregame festivities accordingly. Out of curiosity this afternoon, I Googled the phrases “Obama Dallas” and “Clinton Dallas”…
Upper Deck’s Presidential Predictors trading card collection, featuring caricatures of candidates in classic baseball poses, was released on Wednesday; Dallas-based Beckett Media was first to bring the news of the set last week. Only, when you go to the official Upper Deck site, where you’ll also find word of a…
Gary Fitzsimmons and two Dallas County colleagues have come out for Obama. In case you were waiting to choose a presidential candidate till you found out who Dallas County District Clerk Gary Fitzsimmons, Dallas County Treasurer Joe Wells and Dallas County Clerk John Warren were voting for, well, the trio’s…
Former CBS producer Mary Mapes Just noticed over on The Huffington Post that Jim Schutze’s neighbor, Mary Mapes, wrote a piece about how the Texas primaries on March 4 will actually mean something, if you hadn’t already figured it out — and by something, Mapes writes, the primaries mean “maybe…
Debbie Dudley Branson Today, reporters were allowed to eavesdrop on the weekly conference call with major donors to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. And Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic Monthly reports back with this gem: Dallas’s Debbie Branson, a former president of the state trial bar, implored the campaign to send…
Former Texas Land Commissioner Garry Mauro Last I saw, Barack Obama was still trying to decide whether he’d participate in the MSNBC debate scheduled for February 28 in Houston, in advance of the March 4 Texas primaries. Hillary Clinton wants four more debates before she and Obama go after Texas’…
Alphonso Jackson has many friends — including, apparently, legendary songwriter and producer Kenny Gamble More Alphonso Jackson news — and this time, it involves allegations that the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department Secretary retaliated against the Philadelphia Housing Authority for failing to give a buddy of Jackson’s a $2-million…
Brian Harkin Ah, well, Rudy — we’ll always have Wild About Harry’s. John Edwards is out, as of moments ago. Rudy Giuliani is out, as of last night’s Florida juicing, which should give Tom Hicks a little more free time to further ruin his various sports franchises. And Hillary Clinton’s…
Mark Graham Attorney Fred Baron, Dallas Dems’ fave bread-maker The Houston Chronicle this morning tallies up the state’s biggest political donors in 2007 — “a year in which there were no high-profile races and only a few constitutional amendments on the ballot” — and second only to Houston home builder…
Jim Bowles, former (and, he hopes, future) Dallas County sheriff In this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, we take a look at former Dallas County Sheriff Jim Bowles’ attempt at getting back his old job. He had plenty to say — too much to squeeze into the pages of…
More or less, Paul Burka of Texas Monthly anoints State Rep. Rafael Anchía as governor of Texas … in 2018. But only after he’s served as Dallas mayor. As in, “With the triumph of Dallas mayor Rafael Anchía as the first Hispanic governor, another watershed election has occurred, this one…
