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This is merely the first indication of the real damage that Tom Leppert has done the city by picking the wrong crowd to hang out with and screwing up DART. The suburbs leapt to put Chrisman in this job so they will have an edge while DART decides who to screw for its Big B deficit -- the city or the 'burbs. The board could have waited until its next meeting to decide this and could have amended its by-laws, since it's still supposed to be Dallas's turn to control the chair for two years. Chrisman getting the job for the 'burbs is a substantial blow to the city's interest. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

On the plus side he's got perfect hair. Not one piece out of place. Congrats!

AJ, I thought the same thing about the hair. It's perfect. I never trust guys with perfect hair.

This whole DART mess makes me so @#$%# mad. It's the new DISD. Boneheadedness abounds in this city.

I find it amusing that people are so outraged that a white guy was appointed to this position, as though that should disqualify him from running.

It should be the most qualified, and capable candidate, regardless of race or hair.

A peek into Schutze's thought process re: DART the past two weeks:

- "DART Chair appointed by Mayor is a crook! Plus she won't talk about it! And the Mayor likes her! Mayor Trinity Boondoggle to boot! Hang 'er high!"

- "Whazzat??? She resigned??? What's the angle? Who can I be pissed at now?"

- "Oh, here we go: Mayor Trinity Boondoggle's calling long distance from Mexico to screw the good people of Dallas again! John Ware is coming back to steal the money he forgot to take the first time! Hang 'im high!"

- "Whazzat? No John Ware? Who's this Chrisman dude? What's the angle? Who can I be pissed at now?"

- "Ahhhhh -- He's from Carrollton? That's not Dallas! It's a suburb! The suburbs hate us and want our money! They're all out to screw us! It's the mayor's fault! Hang 'im high!"

Thus contentedly outraged, Schutze can sleep peacefully again.

Chrisman is a fine gentleman who keeps a low profile,honest,gongenial,dedicated to his position as a DART Board Member. He'll make an excellent Chair. Now that DART is somewhat down and at a disadvantage I expect the nasayers to jump on their every move. He will have to be transparent in every move that he, the board,and DART staff makes.

I finally had a chance to talk to a person I sorta-kinda know who works at DART. A lowly individual, not one of the policy makers. (More's the pity--this dude has common sense out the wazoo and I respect him immensely.) Anyhoo, he said (get this), that the staff has known for YEARS that the cost of doing the lines to the 'burbs and downtown on schedule was going waaaaay over projections because of higher construction costs, material costs, etc. It was no secret around the office. That info somehow did not get shared with the board. He doesn't quite see why people are so upset now, because, as I say, he and the rest of the staff saw this issue ages ago. I tried to explain that it is news to most of us, and we taxpayers see $1 billion as a big ol' chunk o' change, but again, he's lived with the idea of overruns for a while, so he's used to it.

To bring DISD back into this, I have often thought that it would be a great idea to get teachers involved in making DISD policy. Credit card nonsense aside, there is some fine teaching going on in DISD, and the people on the front lines know what works. I think it would be a good idea to have a few rank and file DART employees reporting to the DART board instead of having pesky details filtered through some high-up mouthpiece.

Maybe Mr. Chrisman (a/k/a Mr. Perfecthair) can actually talk to some of the folks down in the trenches at DART to get a feel for what is going on.

Obviously most of you don't know Randall....I met him in 1992 when he was just starting his company and I must say, he is one of the most sincere, respectful people I ever known. He's way to good of a person to be thrown into the mess that is DART and Dallas...Maybe he can change some of the backward, political junk that goes on and makes Dallas such a national laughing stock.

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