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,…
Just one hour after we posted that item about the missing Giuliani docs, which were posted to reporter Ben Smith’s blog only yesterday, they’ve already been taken down. Good thing we didn’t save the .PDF file to our hard drive. Yeah, that would have been a very bad idea. Gosh,…
We can take no credit for this; nope, all due propers to Josh Benton at The Dallas Morning News, who yesterday on BoldTypes penned an item about those infamous Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign plans that went, uh, missing from a hotel room in November. Ben Smith, the New York Daily…
Saturday a packed Good Records hosted the CD release party for the two-disc Zac Crain for Mayor comp, with performances by Baboon, Dove Hunter and Erika Wennerstrom of Cincinatti’s Heartless Bastards, who certainly appreciated the audience, despite most likely not knowing who this Crain character was. For those of you…
Illustration by Craig LaRotonda It seems like just yesterday that Farmers Branch passed a slew of anti-illegal immigrant measures, but, no, it’s been nearly two months, and still people are shouting at one another outside City Hall. Forced by a grassroots petition to either repeal the ban on renting to…
Who isn’t on Dallas County District Attorney-Elect Craig Watkins’ transition team? Seriously, this thing looks like one of those randomly generated, ironically cobbled-together lists that used to appear in Spy magazine. That, or a guest list to a party at which you do not want to show up stoned. Here…
Have you read Steve Blow this morning? No? Really, you should. It’s top-notch stuff, no joke–The Man, more or less, taking seriously The Kid running for mayor. Love the headline: “Another Observer mayor? Web-savvy candidate is no joke.” Love the description of our pal Zac Crain: “He’s 32 and straddles…
Guess if you live in Houston, there’s always hope you’ll be like Dallas; what else ya got, right? At least, that’s what some Democrats are figuring: They’re looking to their neighbor in the north–at least, the Houston Chronicle is–and figuring that last week’s lean to the left might some day…
A Friend of Unfair Park read our earlier item about Craig Watkins’ Web site comments and sent a missive directing us to his comments in the League of Women Voters’ campaign insert that appeared, among other places, in the paper version of Unfair Park. Whyohwhy don’t we actually pay attention…
Mark Graham A month before the election, Craig Watkins took off his law firm’s Web site a page proclaiming his desire to defend his clients “by any means necessary.” Man, I really wish I hadn’t thrown away all that campaign junk mail that filled my mailbox in the past few…
Yesterday, Our Man Matt Pulle attended the Dallas County Democratic Party’s victory press conference, during which many of the local Dems paraded up to the podium to offer, well, not terribly much. But, hey, you don’t wanna blow it your first day; really, give them a week before they self-destruct,…
Toby Shook isn’t gonna be Dallas County District Attorney, but that doesn’t mean Craig Watkins is ready to get rid of his former opponent. Dallas County District Attorney-elect Craig Watkins didn’t exactly ease concerns that he wasn’t quite up for the job during the Dallas County Democratic Party victory press…
Here’s your new Secretary of Defense, Texas A&M president Robert Gates. Gig ’em. You might wanna turn on your TV right now: President George W. Bush is yelling at reporters, to whom he just said Donald Rumsfeld is out as Secretary of Defense. In is Robert Gates, former National Security…
Never you mind the quality of this screen grab. But this is how The Daily Show last night broke the news that Chris Bell (and Kinky Friedman and Carole Straylander Keehorn Jingleheimer Schmidt) had lost to incumbent Governor Rick Perry. The GOP’s mascot trundled across the screen and took a…
Margaret Keliher didn’t lose. Her party did. Straight-ticket voters did the judge, and the county, no favors. Margaret Keliher loses? Craig Watkins wins? And Kinky’s on a book tour starting next week pimping his Christmas Pig booklet. One of those I coulda predicted. Guess that Lupe Valdez thing wasn’t a…
Criminal District Judge Manny Alvarez is a Republican. But he’d prefer it if you kept politics out it. Back in May, a non-partisan poll showed that two years after Bush won a historic 40 percent of the Hispanic vote, Republicans’ stance on immigration was alienating Latinos at a rapid clip…
Seems a bad time for The Dallas Morning News’ Web site to be buggy, doesn’t it? (It’s up and down, like my mood this election day.) Surely it’ll be fixed momentarily, but I don’t recall this ever being a problem before the redesign. (Update: At 12:08 p.m., the site was…
