Look Who's Making Fun of Pete Sessions
Wick Allison, in Frontburner, really lays into Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), starting from the opening sentence, "Perhaps making fun of Pete Sessions is just too easy [...]". He cites recent Sessions' problems with his mouth (comparing the GOP to the Taliban), with his connections to the gambling world (fundraiser at a Las Vegas trip club), with his penchant for earmarks, and now with his connection to alleged swindler Allen Stanford. Wick Allison, owner of D Magazine and one-time publisher of William F. Buckley's National Review is asking, "Is this who Republicans want to uphold conservative principles?" Sessions represents a Tom Delay-gerrymandered safe Republican district in north Dallas. He is the poster child for why even Republicans ought to consider pulling the lever for a Democrat once in a while, if only to keep their GOP Congressmen honest.
City Takeover of DISD? Not So Much
Wick Allison is on a roll, reviewing a front page story in The Dallas Morning News speculating on Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert's interest in taking over dysfunctional Dallas Independent School District.
The evidence is thin, at best. Leppert talked to one state senator and one business leader and that was months ago. No one on the school board or city council is identified as knowing anything about it. If anything ever comes of this, the News deserves credit for being first. But if nothing comes of it, the News deserves blame for implying much, much more than the story delivers. As it is, I'm just as inclined to believe the conspiracy theorists who see this as a massive distraction from the city's plan to build a convention center hotel. There's no evidence of a plot to distract, but it would be useful to the mayor, now, wouldn't it? And useful to the News, too, right?
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