If nothing else, this would get you to the polls, wouldn’t it? Promises, promises. A few observations from my polling place: 1) At 9:12 a.m., there was a handful of folks voting, but there was plenty of room, which wasn’t the case at 7 a.m. According to one poll-watcher, there…
Till, oh, two weeks ago folks living in Precinct 1117 had no idea they were supposed to vote at F.P. Caillet Elementary–where I went to school! Wee. Really, God bless the Democratic Party. Even when they do their best, it ends up shooting ’em right in the ass, then they…
Rick Perry doesn’t wanna know about your god. Because your god’s gonna get you a one-way ticket to hell. Ya know, as a liberal Democrat and a bar mitzvah boy, I was so gonna vote for Rick Perry till I read this morning’s Dallas Morning News and saw this headline:…
The real amusing thing about the weekend’s Silverado 350 Craftsman Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway wasn’t that rookie trucker chick Erin Crocker blew an engine on the first lap. Or that checker flag-grabber Clint Boyer led for 103 of the race’s 148 laps, dueling ferociously with Nextel Cup…
The News gave you no news about Rose Renfroe and Ken Mayfield today. But the paper’s story about their campaigns did answer the question: “You’re so awesome, how come you’re so awesome?” Kevin Krause of The Dallas Morning News normally does a very good job covering Dallas County politics, and…
This is an anti-Bush rally in Salt Lake City–or about three more people than we expect to see this afternoon and Tuesday in downtown Dallas. Beleaguered by approval ratings still mired below 40 percent and a likely-probable-maybe-dunno routing by Congressional democrats, President Bush is seeking safe haven in Texas a…
Rose Renfro: She wants to be a Dallas county commissioner. Or a Tarrant County jail prisoner. If you’re a candidate for office, there is one place you don’t want to appear four days before election: in court. But on Friday, the eternally bumbling Rose Renfroe, who is hoping to unseat…
Although the November 7th election is more than a week away, the prescient minds at Unfair Park are able to divine some of the day-after press coverage. Excerpts after the jump…
Dallas County Judge Margaret Keliher’s got a good friend in John Wiley Price. Power to the people and all that. Margaret Keliher and John Wiley Price have made quite the political odd couple over the last four years. She’s a demure Republican county judge from Highland Park; he’s a brash,…
I’m all about avoiding lines. I’ll buy movie tickets online. Hell, I’ll mail in checks that need depositing. Thus, you will most likely not see me on a certain Tuesday in November whipping some chad into shape. I might procrastinate on knitting holiday gifts and vacuuming, but I’m an early…
Prosecutor Shelley Hallman, the wife of Republican candidate for District Attorney Toby Shook, will probably not be asked to write the couple’s Christmas cards this year. In this week’s feature story about the questionable legal tactics of prosecutor Shelley Hallman, we include a rather unprofessional internal e-mail she dispatched to…
Some dude named Zac Crain, who’s apparently running for mayor (that can’t be right), sends this missive concerning yesterday’s posting about the Republican National Congressional Committee allegedly pulling a million-dollar ad campaign for Waco-area U.S. House of Representatives candidate Van Taylor that was scheduled, or not, to appear on Dallas…
A story in a Waco paper this morning says the RNCC is abandoning Iraq War vet Van Taylor–by not buying ads on a Dallas TV station? Today the Waco Herald-Tribune ran a story about how the Republican National Congressional Committee is all but abandoning Republican Van Taylor, an Iraq War…
Kinky Friedman got naked for this Observer photo shoot three years ago. No way he regrets it now. There’s a huge cover story about The Jewboy Who Would Be Governor, Kinky Friedman, in the new issue of The Weekly Standard (not even makin’ that up). It wonders of Friedman’s candidacy,…
If this picture were at all legible, you could make out the four mayoral candidates gathered yesterday for small talk and lox yesterday at Temple Emanu-El. I wouldn’t consider it an entirely wasted Sunday morning. There were free Einstein Bros. bagels, after all, and lox and cream cheese; hell, that’s…
This sounds like just the thing to kick off your Sunday morning: having a nosh with Bill Blaydes, Gary Griffith, Darrell Jordan and Mitchell Rasansky. But all those announced and likely mayoral candidates will in fact be at Temple Emanu-El this very Sunday at 9 a.m. participating in a…what, round-table…
Since I’ve seen that one serious photo of Zac on his Web site a million times, I am using this one taken (by Aden Holt, I think) when Zac appears to have been 24. Or 8. Hard to say. Not 10 minutes after a helpful city employee faxed over my…
Everybody knows why Laura Miller’s not running for mayor. And everyone knows who’ll take her place. Yeah. Right. Fine. Whatever. It’s not surprising to read this morning so many takes on Mayor Laura’s announcement yesterday, first to KTVT-Channel 11’s Sarah Dodd and then later to The Dallas Morning News’ Emily…
Last Zac Crain posting of the month; swear. (Fine–none in May either.) I just thought this one merited a mention because of its source–not a hometown blog, but venerable national journalism trade mag Editor & Publisher, which seems tickled by the fact “the former music editor for the alternative weekly…
I have no idea how serious a mayoral candidate Zac Crain will be come next year’s elections; Lord knows he’s swimming in a crowded pool that will likely include not only Mayor Laura Miller, but also attorney and perennial candidate Darrell Jordan, council members Don Hill and Bill Blaydes (and,…
I’m asked this three times a day, at the very least: “Zac’s kidding, right?” Or, “What’s Zac thinking?” Or, “He’s not serious, is he?” Seems no one wants to take former Observer music editor, and my good friend, Zac Crain at his word when he says he’s running for Dallas…
They ain’t making Jews like Kinky anymore: The would-be gov spoke to a crowd at Bill’s Records and Tapes at noon on Saturday. Kinky Friedman has but three weeks left to submit to the state the 45,450 signatures he (and fellow independent gubernatorial candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn Rylander Jingle Heimer…
