Our Man Downtown Matt Pulle reports: Ten percent of the precincts have reported in, and Leppert’s still holding strong with 29 percent of the votes (9,338 votes). Oakley’s pulled up to 20 percent of the vote, with 6,508 votes counted so far. Don Hill remains in third, with 12.61 percent,…
I wrote earlier that the candidates who finished fifth or lower will have to pull rabbits out of their hat to make the runoff. I stand corrected: Even if they possess incredible magical abilities, the likes of which would make David Blaine bury himself under the sidewalk in a block…
As of 577 precincts left to report — meaning, all of them — Tom Leppert’s just waiting to find out who joins him in the runoff. Unless he gets 50 percent of the vote. Which ain’t gonna happen. Well, I think we can say that Tom Leppert is safely in…
Matt Pulle’s Our Man Downtown tonight with the results from early voting, which are as follows: Your early clubhouse leader is Tom Leppert, with 29 percent of the early vote (7,403 votes). Ed Oakley comes in at second, with 19 percent (4,957). Don Hill comes in third with 14 percent…
Below, in the comments affixed to today’s earlier item, we have reports from around town — East Dallas mostly, where all’s clear. Same goes for up here in Northwest Dallas — again — where trips to two polling places this afternoon turned up no petitioners for the Trinity Vote, and…
The missus and I just concluded a morning tour of the Northwest Dallas polling places, and so far, no drama — or voters, for that matter. At 9:32, we were Nos. 53 and 54 at Leonides Cigarroa Elementary School on Webb Chapel Road and Walnut Hill Lane (our third polling…
I have nothing but ambiguity, confusion and darkness to offer you, Friends of Unfair Park, on the eve of tomorrow’s mayoral election. There are no certainties, only wild cards. Here are just a few:…
…we will be live-blogging the election, beginning, most likely, in the late morning, between voting and going to Home Depot to buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Matt Pulle will be at county election HQ around 7 p.m., when early results start coming in; Jim Schutze…
So, Jennifer Gale, who probably had to get a ride, showed to the final mayoral forum, but Don Hill, Ed Oakley and Max Wells couldn’t be bothered. That’s nice. More than two months ago, I attended a mayoral forum hosted by the Dallas Police Association and left thoroughly confused about…
Angela Hunt just sent to Mayor Laura Miller, Harlan Crow, Ron Kirk and other “blocker”-backers a missive in which she demands they get their mercenaries to back the eff up come Saturday, when Hunt’s Trinity Vote volunteers will be out gathering signatures for her anti-Trinity toll road petitions that call…
After the jump, we’re posting a phony “Sink the Petition! Save the Trinity!” campaign poster making the local Interwebs rounds this a.m. And, far as we know, Jim Schutze has nothing to do with it. Far as we know. –Robert Wilonsky…
The United Black Clergy, which bills itself as “a coalition of religious leaders, along with Southern Dallas business and civic leaders,” wants mayoral and city council candidates to know something: Their vote is not for sale. They will say as much at 1:30 this afternoon at St. Paul Missionary Baptist…
Listen, I don’t want to attack Max Wells too hard for his TV attack on Tom Leppert or his latest mailer, the front of which you see above. This is politics, not NBA playoff basketball. I understand that in the final days of a mayoral campaign, you’re going to distort…
This mailer, from Ed Oakley, has been making the rounds during the last couple of days; Mike Davis sent us his copy, but other politicos we’ve talked to the last couple of days have also been wondering what Oakley’s trying to say with this piece o’ campaign literature sent solely…
…despite our (and your) best efforts. But here’s the flyer, which some of you received last week and which I got at the house just yesterday. And speaking of mayoral-election mailers, we have a few forthcoming that are utterly fascinating, including one Ed Oakley mailed solely to southern Dallas voters…
Tonight you can go ask Ed Oakley about the 2,000 apartments he wants to tear down — to stop the crime, of course. A note to all our Friends concerned about the future of Deep Ellum (and the rest of Dallas, for that matter): You should attend tonight’s Dallas Mayoral…
Waco economist Ray Perryman We love Tom Korosec around here; he produced some mighty fine stories for the paper version of Unfair Park during his tenure here. But Tom’s now at the Houston Chronicle, where today he has a story about the “lackluster race for mayor” here, and while we…
On Saturday, the missus and I got the weirdest thing in the mail: a folded white sheet of paper sent first class, with the return address of what turns out to be a Mail Boxes Etc. in Casa Linda Plaza. It said it had come from something called “New Voices,”…
Well, we were going to link to Max Wells’ latest TV spot, in which some hired gun sits on his front-porch rocking chair while taking shots at Tom Leppert’s love for Hawaii and that $6.6 mil check Turner Construction had to write to the government. Only, the ad, which was…
That’s what an old rock-and-roll memorabilia-selling Friend of Unfair Park alleges over at his blog: I gathered signatures yesterday at one of the early voting poll locations. You should know that the opposition has hired “blockers” — many of whom were brought in from outside the Dallas area and/or state…
Did the mayoral election already happen? Because, all of the sudden, it seems like we’re deep in Trinity River mud, and it ain’t even May 12 yet. Unfair Park just received a press release from the Greater Dallas Chamber begging folks not to sign Angela Hunt’s Trinity Parkway petition. Indeed,…
On Friday — hey, only eight days before the election, what’s the rush? — Ed Oakley debuted his new TV spot, in which he promises to tear down “aging, rundown apartment complex[es] that have become a haven for crime.” Actually, Oakley doesn’t promise anything; he never says a word in…
