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Web Posted :
10/22/2002
12:00 AM
Open
the books, Kirk
The
only "huff and puff" in the U.S. Senate race between
Democrat Ron Kirk and Republican John Cornyn is coming from Kirk
("NBC still aiming for Kirk-Cornyn," Oct. 12).
This is the noise Kirk is making while trying
to hide that he has failed to fully disclose his personal finances
and is unwilling to fully release his income tax returns as has
Cornyn.
Tim Russert has a right to be mystified, but
many Texans know why Kirk did not agree to appear on "Meet
the Press." He would have been asked to make public his
former clients and how much he was paid as a lobbyist.
If Kirk expects to have a meaningful dialogue
with Texans, he needs to belly up to the bar and show where he has
been, where he is going and just who he is going to serve.
Jesse Diaz, Dallas |
 
Re:
Candidates
seek to take their Texas triumphs national;
State's
attorney general, former mayor of Dallas stand by records
By Gary Susswein,
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Monday, October 21, 2002
(Submitted
10/22/02)
Your
description of the allegations of Ron Kirk's corrupt politics (the
reference to "his wife" who served on several boards) must
reflect the pro-Kirk stance of your paper. As you probably know,
Matrice Kirk was given a board position by Tom Hicks on one of his
companies. Along with the position went stock options worth
anywhere between $500,000 and over $1,000,000, depending upon when the
Kirk's cashed them in (We don't know because Kirk refuses to release his
tax returns). When Hicks was asked why he appointed Mrs. Kirk he
replied (no kidding -- check out the quotes in the Dallas Morning News)
that she was appointed in spite of having no qualifications other than
because she was black, a female, and that the Kirk family needed the
financial help! Subsequently Ron Kirk became head cheerleader for
a deal negotiated by Dallas City Manager John Ware, a buddy of Kirk's,
whereby Hicks and Ross Perot Jr. got approximately $150,000,000 in
taxpayer subsidies for their arena (Oh, excuse me, not THEIR arena, the
city's arena -- that way the two billionaires pay no taxes on it.
Their deal just gives it to them to use for thirty years along with a
"no compete" clause prohibiting any other similar venues to be
built in Dallas during that time). Once the vote was
"won" by less than 1% and probably (to be generous) due to
vote fraud in South Dallas and Hicks and Perot Jr. got their money,
Hicks hired Mr. Ware at something like $500,000 per year to head some
company he set up for Ware. If you're going to tell the Kirk -
Dallas story, tell it like it is. Surely you democrats have some
vestige of pride in your politicians: Ron Kirk was about as good a thing
for Dallas as Teddy Kennedy was for Mary Jo Kopechne.
Bill Gordon, Dallas
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Hispanics
'know' Kirk
Re: "Survey
says GOP entries lead big,"
Oct. 20.
Finally, someone noticed the non-existence of a
viable black-Hispanic voting block. As owner of a small business and
lifelong Dallas community activist, I can personally attest to pollster
Micheline Blum's assertions.
Hispanics in Dallas know Ron Kirk. If Ron Kirk would
have had a viable relationship with the Hispanic community while he was
mayor, the Dream Team would not be referred to as "so-called."
In short, Ron Kirk the mayor never gave a hoot about
the Hispanic community, so why should Hispanics expect any better from
Ron Kirk the senator? Judging by the lack of campaigning Ron Kirk has
done in South Texas, I suspect Hispanics there know the Ron Kirk I know
too. Jesse Diaz, Dallas |
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