Several Friends of Unfair Park have e-mailed me wondering why we haven’t posted Ed Oakley’s Tom-Tom-pounding ad; a few seem to think we’re Leppert lovers, whatever. Only one’s wondered where Leppert’s repsonse is. Me, I just miss Sam Coats’ ads; at least they were clever and folksy, as opposed to…
Who knew so many of our Friends were fans of the Ron Paul? (And by so many, I mean 11. Ish.) Well, you know who else loves the sole Texan running for president? Yup — Jon Stewart, who last night had the Gulf Coast Congressman on The Daily Show and…
Over at Tom Leppert’s Web site, the mayoral wannabe has just posted a response to Ed Oakley’s “Truth”-telling ad — ya know, the one that makes Leppert look like a jaundiced spastic. Leppert doesn’t really attack the attack. Instead, he just says things like, “Negative attack ads won’t fight crime,…
If you missed last night’s debate twixt Tom Leppert and Ed Oakley — and you did — you can watch it again its entirety right here, courtesy KTVT-Channel 11. Or you can watch it in segments, as Channel 11 has kindly broken it down into DVD-ready scene selections that have…
Perhaps you missed this in today’s Dallas Morning News; among those who did not were Think Progress and Salon’s “War Room” reporter Tim Grieve. And by this, I mean a syndicated column from Universal Press Syndicate’s 40-year veteran Georgie Anne Geyer, who writes about a visit President Bush recently received…
Ed Oakley’s launched a new Web site aiming to take down Tom Leppert. Hoping to make someone, anyone pay attention to the mayoral runoff, Ed Oakley has launched The Truth About Tom, a dumb and clumsy Web site largely dedicated to exposing Tom Leppert’s record as CEO of Turner Construction…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends his take on this morning’s Ed Oakley-Tom Leppert forum at the North Dallas Chamber. Highlights are after the jump — and, no, we don’t have any idea who our Friend is voting for. But we can guess… Nonetheless, says our Friend, ” Both were…
Ron Paul fascinates us. No idea why, unless it’s just that his brand of crazy sounds relatively sane. That, or we’re just amused by guys with two first names. Last year, I wrote a cover story about Bruce Bartlett’s being fired from the North Dallas-based right-wing think tank National Center…
Tom Leppert and Ed Oakley, meet your worst nightmare: Tracy Rowlett. OK, I dunno about all that, but the KTVT-Channel 11 anchor-on-his-way-out will, a week from tonight, moderate a half-hour debate (really, that’s all — the length of an episode of According to Jim?) twixt the two mayoral candidates. It’ll…
Al Gore was out in Marin County, California, yesterday signing copies of his new book, The Assault on Reason and 1,001 Other Summertime Smoothie Recipes, and, of course, he was greeted by some 2,000 peeps all begging him to run, Al, run. Among the throngs, reports the Marin Independent Journal,…
Illustration by Craig LaRotonda Last Tuesday, three days after voters in Farmers Branch voted overwhemingly for the law that bans apartment owners from renting to illegal immigrants, we posted that press release from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas…
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…
Don Hill wants you to know that he isn’t supporting Ed Oakley or Tom Leppert in their bids to become Your Next Mayor. Not supporting them yet, that is. He might pick someone to endorse, if either Oakley or Leppert believes as Don Hill believes. And what does Don Hill…
This dude was only 14,745 votes shy of making the runoff. So, a mere 71,421 turned out to vote — or about 12 percent of the registered voters in the city, which isn’t shameful at all. And out of those votes cast, 103 went to a write-in candidate, and there…
Now, see, if Sam Coats had actually run this ad, which his campaign posted to YouTube today lest it wind up on the shelf, then maybe he’d have gotten more than 5,470 votes in his bid to become mayor. Or, fine, maybe not. Either way, it’s still a giggle, and…
I spent a few minutes this morning talking to our old pal Zac Crain, who now says he can’t believe he ever wanted to be mayor in a city where 71,000 people turned out to vote — an “apocalyptic” figure, says the wanna-be candidate booted off the ballot. “I feel…
By Saturday afternoon, we heard several stories about the anonymous call many locals had received — the one in which they were told not to vote for Ed Oakley, Max Wells or Don Hill. Said the robo-voice on the other end of the “private” phone number: “Today is election day…
Since it doesn’t appear we’ll have further need for this tremendous photo, here it is one last time. Stay strong, Don Hill. You are still No. 1 — by which we mean, No. 3 — in our book. Here’s the first official statement from Don Hill, who — with 570…
Here’s where it stands, before it totally collapses: Tom Leppert’s got 27.24 percent of the vote, which translates to 19,080 votes — out of 70,045 counted thus far. Ed Oakley’s got himself 20.44 percent of the vote, or nearly 5,000 fewer than Jordan at 14,314. As for Hill and Wells,…
Our Man Downtown’s about to become Our Man at Gilley’s, as Matt Pulle’s on his way to Tom Leppert Party-Down HQ to wrangle a few quotes from the top vote-getter (thus far, but who’s kidding whom?) in today’s mayoral election. So, it’s damned near a done deal: Tom Leppert and…
We’re almost done tonight, folks: With most of the votes in — 64,234, to be exact — Tom Leppert’s got 27.19 percent, or 17,463 votes. Ed Oakley’s still in second, with 20.75 percent (or 13,328 votes). Don Hill’s still in third, with 14.37 percent — or 9,228 votes. Max Wells…
Our Man Downtown says: Don Hill’s done. Why? Because most of the Southern sector votes have been counted, and it’s likely Hill will drop from here on out, especially as Lake Highlands and East Dallas precincts keep reporting in. For instance, Max Wells’ former council district, which is now Bill…
