Tom Leppert and Dwaine Caraway Try, Try Again to Fill DART Board Seat

Mayor Tom Leppert and Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway -- whom I have always wanted to describe as the Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid of Dallas City Hall, but I can’t figure out which one’s Butch -- have nominated Nigerian-born businessman and former mayoral contender Edward Okpa to fill the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board seat of the late Lynn Flint Shaw. Okpa, you may or may not remember, was the favorite long-shot mayoral candidate of the late Matt Pulle. (Matt’s actually alive and well in Nashville. He’s just late.)
This means that Butch and Sundance’s last candidate for the DART board, Dr. Beverly Mitchell-Brooks, apparently has been placed into the political vaporization chamber and caused to disappear without further ado or whimpering. Zap! What Mitchell-Brooks? Who’s that? She’s history.






















