Laura Miller NOT RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION!

[crispini]

Hold onto your shorts, folks, the Dallas mayoral 2007 election is gonna be a wild one for sure now!

[Sooner75]

1. True. Sorry to see her move on.

I think Laura Miller will be remembered as one of the best mayors Dallas in this era. In the chummy world of Dallas city politics, she was the gutsy councilman who cried "Bullshit" to the inside deals. The power brokers HATED the fact that they couldn't beat her when she ran for mayor.

With Laura out of the picture, the mayor's race is likely to tilt back to a group of millionaires with real estate interests to protect and enhance.

In a classic Laura Miller moment on the city council, the owners of the Hyatt Regency wanted the city to GIVE them a small adjoining lot and Laura spoke up and said, "If they want it, they should pay the city fair market value." (The small lot was worth like $40,000.) Well, the council snapped into action and gave the lot away for free over Miller's objection. Deals like that made Laura Miller a "troublemaker." When she became mayor, she was able to make a lot MORE trouble for those insiders.

Thank God for troublemakers like Laura Miller!

[TexasThoughtCriminal]

2. Wow! Just wow!

I hope we don't get one of our nutjob councilpersons as next mayor. Or an indicted one!