10/29/04  The Mayor's Gorgeous Guru divorces Bah Bah!

Sometimes, we just have to share juicy tidbits that have absolutely no importance other than a big snicker.

Everyone has been laughing since Park Cities resident Beth Ann Blackwood moved her hair bows to Oak Lawn and announced her candidacy for city council to replace Princess Velveeta as Queen of District 14. 

It seems like almost immediately after last year's May council elections, Bah Bah sent out an announcement of her candidacy.  A very expensive, "I'm here" announcement.  That alone was a big surprise because she had hired Rob Allyn (currently spending lots of Grandpa Warbucks' millions in Arlington) as her campaign consultant.  He had to have known better than to waste Bah Bah's money so early.  For that matter, he had to have known her chances of success in District 14 (a very organized, very political district) are slim to none.

There is one really good candidate in District 14, Candy Marcum.  There are other candidates, almost anyone of which have more community credentials than does Bah Bah Blackwood, just by actually living in the District or anywhere else in Dallas.  Princess Velveeta is pushing the Mussolini of the M Streets.

Since her campaign was going nowhere, Bah Bah decided to drop a big bomb on the whole process and announce that she is leading a petition drive to get a measure on next year's ballot to change our city government and do completely away with the City Manager and give all the authority at City Hall to the Mayor.  See  City Manager.

We had 6 years of an all powerful mayor under Con Jerk/Ron Kirk, who got us Ted Benavides and Terrell Bolton.  We don't need a monarch at City Hall, we need a city manager and a mayor who can crack the whip over some council crooks who do not know where the line between conflict of interest begins and ends.

Not only has Park Cities resident Bah Bah decided to take over city hall (and how we run it), but she has decided to forego any contact with our unwashed masses.  Her husband (the power behind the bow head) has hired a firm to gather the required signatures to get her matter on the ballot.

One can't depend on volunteers to get the job done when one has no connection with anyone living in Dallas.  One certainly can't expect one's Park Cities chums to actually go door to door in Dallas to collect signatures.  I mean, please!  There are sidewalks in Dallas with cracks, or worse!  There are porches in Dallas that might have collected leaves, or worse.  There are some real-honest-to-God poor people in Dallas, or worse. 

There actually are enough rich people in Dallas to sign Bah Bah's petition, but they don't answer their doors and mostly live in high rises or behind tall fences. 

What else was a Park Cities babe supposed to do except get her husband to make it all better?

It was a puzzlement to many of local political groupies as to why Bah Bah was doing this petition thing, considering she's paying lots of $$ to the Mayor's Guru, and what Bah Bah's pushing is absolutely NOT what Mayor Miller wants in the way of a charter amendment to increase SOME powers for the mayor. 

There were a couple of opinions --

1) Allyn was too busy fleecing Grandpa Warbucks with that Arlington $5 million campaign to be paying attention to Bah Bah, and some Allyn underling had really screwed up, or
2) Allyn was trying to help Mayor Miller's efforts to get some reasonable and needed powers for the mayor position by promoting something much more outrageous.

It looks like it was 1) some Allyn underling really screwed up, because the rumor about town is that Rob Allyn (one of the most gorgeous, if not the most gorgeous men in Dallas) has dropped Bah Bah Blackwood as a client. 

A lot of women who would pay good money (if we had it) to buy time to go sit and talk to Rob Allyn.  Not only do you get to look at him, but he's really a smart, funny guy who can talk about almost anything.  Unfortunately, Rob is married to one of the most beautiful women in Dallas. 

So, poor Bah Bah is now without a political consultant.  Worse, she no longer will have those great meetings with the Mayor's Gorgeous Guru.  Obviously, she was spending her money to just look at him (and you can't really fault her for that) and not to listen to him.  There is no way Rob Allyn would have recommended Bah Bah's ridiculous petition drive as a vehicle to get some publicity for her Don Quixote impossible dream of serving on the Dallas City Council.

The Lord moves in mysterious ways.

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