Dallasites: Tomorrow's Observer has a must-read story!

[crispini]

Preview here:

Tomorrow’s edition of the Dallas Observer will include a story about a series of e-mails that have been in the Observer’s possession since last summer, depicting Lynn Flint Shaw as the enforcer in a tight-knit group called “The Inner Circle.”

The e-mails have been on my desk for some months while I tried to authenticate them. After I was able to establish through a witness that they were legitimate, I began trying to contact Flint Shaw about them in the middle of last week. Yesterday, a few hours before her death, she faxed me a letter confirming that the e-mails were authentic but declining to comment directly on them.

The e-mails are between members of a group of black political figures who helped Tom Leppert get elected mayor last summer and then helped him defeat the Trinity River toll road referendum in the fall. The group was eager to remind Leppert of his indebtedness to them and was determined to closely control access to Leppert by minorities seeking city contracts.

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2008/03/lynn_flint_shaws_inner_circle.php

WHOA! :wow:

So we have the evil financier / developer of North Dallas allied with a corrupt circle in South Dallas. No fucking wonder we can't get a damn thing done in this town.

[sonias]

1. Developers are scum

They have the hearts of war profiteers. They come into cities and towns, pillage and plunder, make their millions and high-tail it to somewhere else to start the whole process all over again.

That inner circle sounds like a cult. And they're all just protecting their business rackets.

Sonia

[sonias]

2. Hold the presses - this person was killed

Separate story in the same paper. Whoa that's creepy.

Texas Observer 3/11/08
Dallas Police Confirm Murder-Suicide in Deaths of Rufus and Lynn Flint Shaw
Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 10:55:11 AM

Shortly before 10:30 a.m., Dallas police Lt. Craig Miller, commander of the homicide unit, confirmed what had already become evident in the light of day: Late yesterday, Dallas Blog political columnist Rufus Shaw took a handgun and shot his wife, former Dallas Area Rapid Transit chair Lynn Flint Shaw, before turning the gun on himself. Cautioned Miller, "We're very preliminary into the investigation" and a long way off from getting results of toxicology reports. "And we're waiting to work with the medical examiner to determine their cause of death," he said. Nonetheless, said Miller, "that's what it's probably going to be" -- murder-suicide.

Sonia

[GOPisEvil]

3. Yikes!!

Wow. Amazing story.

[crispini]

4. Very interesting.

This could be very very big.

[Maestro]

5. I was involved in some politics in Dallas in the mid 90s.

Dallas city government is corrupt to the core and unfortunately it seems that many dems are just as culpable for the corruption as repukes. I only dealt with the Latino education issues, but that was enough for me to see that Dallas will never improve until a full-scale gutting takes place. It is all about power and ego trips and making someone a little richer.

The murder/suicide of Shaw just makes this even more disgusting.