Leppert's likely departure sets off scramble to field Dallas mayor candidates

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Leppert's likely departure sets off scramble to field Dallas mayor candidates
07:34 AM CST on Wednesday, January 12, 2011
By GROMER JEFFERS Jr. / The Dallas Morning News
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It is now all but certain that Mayor Tom Leppert will not run for re-election this year, setting off a scramble among business leaders and political operatives to find a candidate to replace him.

City Council member Ron Natinsky, a reliable ally of Leppert with ties to the business community, has bolted out of the gate, letting it be known without making an official announcement that he is running for mayor.

Leppert's ambition to run for the U.S. Senate is well-known and was stymied by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's decision to remain in office after her failed gubernatorial bid last year. It has been widely speculated that he is readying himself for a 2012 run for her seat.

For more than a year, he has cozied up to Republican opinion makers and took the unusual step last year – for a person in a nonpartisan office like Dallas mayor – of endorsing Republican Rick Perry for governor.

more at http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/local/stories/011211dnmetleppert.a4cb388c.html

Please, please run Dr. Elba Garcia.

[sadbear]

1. Are there no bigger names in the Texas GOP?

Now that I think of it, no.

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2. Just the usual A-holes.

Joe Barton - Apologized TO British Petroleum for investigations into Gulf spill.

Pete Sessions - Current Chair of RNCC.

Louie Golmert -

[KamaAina]

3. Louie Gohmert: The 'h' and 't' are silent.

:P

[sadbear]

4. What an embarrassing lot?

Texas republicans should be ashamed of themselves for this sorry lot. (I don't speak highly of Texas Democrats, either.) Gohmert really is an insane douchebag, isn't he?

[PWT]

5. Please...

Please!

[Liberal In Texas]

6. Kay Bailey is retiring.

And this is why he isn't running for mayor again.