And Now, to the List of Dallas Mayoral Candidates, Add Mike Rawlings

• Yes, that's happened quite a bit over the past 200+ years.

• We also have Kunkle who is not DCC.

• I, it looks like for one, am glad to see him run for mayor

• "Mike knows how to drill down to determine the needs and the resources..." I'm pretty sure I read that same phrase on the back of a porno box.

• EXACTLY!

• Thanks!

• We now have two DCC candidates?

• As a Hispanic, and see what we got...Domingo Garcia, Elba Garcia, Roberto Alonzo, Steve Salazar...I am quite happy with the "white" man wanting to run things.

• Bumper Sticker "I will do for Dallas what I did for the homeless - put them where no one could see or hear them, and kept them off the streets during the SuperBowl."

• @ Skinner Randy WTF are you smoking?? I seriously doubt Rawlings personally managed the placement of 700 homeless people. Heck, I doubt he even touched them without wearing a bio haz mat suit. The issue is not that he helped Leppert compartmentalize a problem that would have blemished the City during SuperBowl if not for the snow. The issue is that he is a corporate clone of Leppert - no stripes - doing the bidding of a small group of so-called business leaders who think they know how to run the city better than the citizens, and not have to be elected to do it. I don't see any of them offering their millions of bucks to cover a deficit they caused by forcing the city to buy bonds for a hotel we don't need and a bridge we can't cross.

• Mike will bring a fresh perspective to the suffering in our city, at a time when city, county, and state budgets are being cut for the poor and mentally challenged. He will build on the great work done by Mayor Leppert and the City Council with making Dallas the leading city in changing the face of homelessness. Last year, nearly 700 formerly homeless were placed into housing. This leadership, led by Mike Rawlings, is needed in a time such as this.

• I'd like to see that, but FWIW, he denied that when I asked him (about a year ago). I suspect he could be convinced otherwise. So, that race probably lines up as Anchia vs. Staples. Interesting.

• Begins: Monday Ends: March 14

• Me? You mean, running for mayor? Nope. Well, I mean, sure -- but the policy speeches I give my wife at 11:29 p.m., drink in hand, probably wouldn't sound as good to anyone other than me.

• Robert: Have you ever thought about it?

• When is the filing deadline, anyway?

• Oy! Between Natinsky and Rawlings..... we haven't a chance. Too much luggage on both and any friend of Tom's is not a friend of mine. Snakes!

• They don't issue those until after you are sworn in.

• How do so many non-hispanic whites get elected mayor when they only make up 30 percent of the Dallas population? Is there more opportunity to be paid off as a simple council member?

• I will vote for him. When it came to getting things done with Our homeless he did what was necessary!

• Anchia wants nothing to do with being mayor. His eyes are on a bigger prize. Perhaps a gubernatorial run in 2014?

• I'd like him a lot more if he had a pinstripe suit.

• So many white guys. Sure would be interesting if an Anchia or an Atkins threw his hat in the ring.

• Ah. I see. The list to which I referred was a list of things in which they have invested throughout CIC's history. I am editing the item to reflect that. Thank you for pointing that out.

• Visited the link.... And then Clicked through on the Ace Cash Express name. Read the bottom paragraph on the summary. It states as follows: "In October 2006, Ace Cash Express was sold to an affiliate of JLL Partners. Over the course of the investment period, CIC Partners and its investors achieved a return in excess of 50 times from the original MBO." Only took one more click than was made for the story to find out CIC sold it off 4 and a half years ago.

• What percentage of The City of Dallas does CIC own compared to The Citizen's Council?

• It's the first listing on CIC Partners' website. How much more fact-checking am I supposed to do? See the link above. There's even a link from CIC's site to Ace Cash Express's site.

• Mr. Rawlings company no longer has holdings in Ace Cash Express. Fact check please before reporting!

• Will he be opposed by Spalding?

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