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09/19/02  Kirk is Toast, and his Old Gang's in the same Oven.

So much to say, but so much stuff is being said by others that today's edition is going to be in the Drudge Report manner.

Looks like The Dallas Managed News Editors are reading DallasArena.com because we said it first, but better late than never:

The Race Card, Again: Kirk should learn from his remarks Opinion: Editorials 9/19/02

.  .  .  Gov. Ann Richards took a verbal shot at her opponent, George W. Bush. .  .  .  Mr. Bush sat by quietly.  .  .  .      Democratic senatorial nominee Ron Kirk should consider that lesson, if he hopes to rise in politics.   .  .  .      But is the debate over Iraq the place to engage in class warfare or to play the race card? No, just as Mr. Cornyn's campaign was wrong to suggest this summer that Mr. Kirk's presence on the so-called Democratic dream team was part of a quota system.      We said then, and we say again now, that candidates particularly need to watch how they interject race into campaigns.  .  .  .  Ron Kirk said Tuesday that he regrets his comments. Perhaps he will return to the approach of building consensus, such as he did on some major issues in Dallas.  .  .  .

Thought you had died and gone to heaven?  Seeing the DMN actually ALMOST criticize Ron Kirk might lead you to question your mental state.  But, the Houston Chronicle has absolutely no problem laying it on Old Con Jerk.

Kirk regrets racial overtones in debate; He accuses Cornyn of warping his national defense stance By CLAY ROBISON Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau

Sept. 17, 2002, 11:56PM AUSTIN -- Democratic senatorial candidate Ron Kirk said Tuesday that he regretted inserting racial overtones into the debate .  .  .  .      "I regret the way I stated those concerns and had no intention of offending anyone, particularly those who serve or, like my father, have served this country," he added. . . .

 
What are they saying in Ft. Worth?

Fort Worth News

Kirk says he regrets remarks Jack Douglas Jr. Star-Telegram Staff Writer 9/18/02

U.S. Senate candidate Ron Kirk said Tuesday that he regrets his choice of words in suggesting that, in the event of a war with Iraq, the first half-million U.S. soldiers should come from wealthy families. .  .  .     Kirk said he wishes that he had chosen his words more carefully when, on Friday, he questioned how much Republicans would support war if "the next time we go to war, the first 500,000 kids have to come from families who earn $1 million or more." . .  .

Looks like Goffer Jeffers had to call in re-enforcement to actually cover the Cornyn-Kirk campaign.  The way he has been handling it to date, you would hardly know Con Jerk had an opponent.  

Cornyn-Kirk race pivotal, backers say  09/19/2002  By GROMER JEFFERS JR. and DAVID JACKSON  The Dallas Morning News

In dueling fund-raisers half a continent apart,  .  .  .     Former White House adviser Karen Hughes, .  .  .  "We're engaged in a monumental struggle of good against evil," Ms. Hughes said of the war on terrorism. "It's an important time to have leaders who know where they stand, who stand on principles and convictions and who live lives of commitment and service. That's John Cornyn."     Mr. Kirk attended a private reception in Washington featuring Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D. Later, he went to a fund-raiser in Boston. .  .  .    At a fund-raiser billed as Women for Cornyn, . . . Ms. Hughes also taunted Mr. Kirk for saying earlier this year that efforts to make the Bush tax cut permanent would be irresponsible. Mr. Kirk has since said . . . .  She also scolded Mr. Kirk for saying last week that race and class motivated Mr. Cornyn's support of a possible war with Iraq. . . .   Mr. Kirk said Tuesday that he regretted . . .      The Cornyn campaign said its fund-raiser generated $60,000. Kirk aides said they did not know how much money they will get from a spate of out-out-town fund-raisers this week and next.

That's pretty much how Con Jerk and City MisManager Ted Benavides ran Dallas during Kirk's 6-year reign of terror.  We had a surplus when Kirk took over -- we may have still had it when Benavides came on board (we'll never know), but Con Jerk left us with a $95 million shortfall.  Under Ron Kirk's leadership, we don't know how much money we had or how much money we spent -- but it's sure gone now.

Jim Schutze must have got hold of a video or tape of the 9/11 city council meeting because he just goes to town on Mary Poss and Tom Hicks in this article:

	Jerk the Jerk  BY JIM SCHUTZE At long last, Mayor Miller and the city council give Tom Hicks' chain a good hard yank
Peter Calvin Council member Mary Poss: OK, Mr. Ross. Whatever you say, Mr. Ross.	. . .Palladium is the City Hall suck-up giveaway by which this same city council was tricked earlier in the year into shoveling out $43 million in tax money for a French lingerie and sports memorabilia shopping mall next to the new not-quite-downtown arena.   .  .  .  The strangeness was that most of the city council supported her, all except Mary "Yes, Ross" Poss and her Southern Sector Posse.  .  .  .
Alan Walne, a Lake Highlands/North Dallas representative, himself a businessman with a long history of defending business interests at City Hall and specifically of voting for Hicks and Perot, said: "I can't even begin to explain to you how deeply this hit me." Walne said he had sought assurances from former Mayor Ron Kirk before Kirk left office that Hicks and Perot would not try to sleaze out of their five-year commitment. "I was told, as Mayor Kirk could do, in no uncertain terms that that wasn't going to happen . .  .  .  and Miss Poss has gone on about what's the legal obligation. .  .  .  "I am very disappointed that Mayor Kirk couldn't have brought clarity to it and couldn't have made a phone call on behalf of the city to remind everybody what the deal was. And it's going to cost the city 2 million dollars." dallasobserver.com | originally published: September 19, 2002

Whatever happened to that syrupy suck-up with her fake smile?    This new Mary is really a lot more fun, but Peter Calvin's picture does not look like a babe who says "Yes" too often.

There's more:

GOP Nominees Make Iraq a Political Weapon By Jim VandeHei  Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, September 18, 2002; Page A01

. . . In Texas, Democratic Senate nominee Ron Kirk, an African American, lashed out at Republican John Cornyn for backing U.S. intervention in Iraq because a disproportionate number of soldiers would be minorities.    "I would be curious to see if he would go to war without any thought of loss if the first half-million kids to go came from families who made $1 million," Kirk was quoted as saying. ? 2002 The Washington Post Company

Hispanic voters cool so far to 'dream team' By LORI RODRIGUEZ Copyright 2002 Houston ChronicleMinority Affairs Writer

Sept. 18, 2002, 9:38PM The black and Hispanic coalition that Democrats hope will vault their "dream team" into the state's top slots so far has failed to coalesce, largely because of anemic Hispanic interest.

In conclusion --  

Please God, may we never have a Mayor Mary Poss or a Senator Ron Kirk.

Amen,  Rad Field