Congrats, JWP, you’re officially an establishment politician, I guess.
Sunday, the Dallas Morning News, only a few weeks behind the times took its own belated look, and spinmeistering, at Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price’s attempted shakedown of would-be Dallas-area Inland Port developer Richard Allen.
Given his past, part of the JWP shakedown is likely for jobs for his friends. How much he’s in bed with Dallas Mayor Tom Leppart and/or Ross Perot Jr. is unknown.
And, Gromer Jeffers and Kevin Krause claiming that “Allen ... appeared blind to the county's complicated racial politics" sure sounds like excuse-making for JWP..
OTOH, per Pettis Norman, and a sideways riff, the best one could argue is that Allen was naive about Dallas politics with consultants in general, not specifically about racial issues.
Finally, though, the DMN duo ignores Hutchins Mayor Artis Johnson, also black, and JWP's apparent attempt to shake HIM down over the bridge, too.
As for noticing the Dallas Observer, it's either to follow up after them, try to re-spin what Schuetze reports (as here) or similar.
Meanwhile, on the Snooze’s opinion page blog, Tod Robberson tries to spinmeister for the spinmeisters.
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