Burnt Orange Report

Pre-Launch of DallasBlog

By Karl-Thomas Musselman

I noticed this earlier today, but there is a new Blog being run by some professionals up in Dallas, one who was part of the original team over at Quorum Report. See DallasBlog.

QR: Bennett was one of the driving forces behind the creation of Quorum Report back in 1983. He worked in the first round of Governor Bill Clements, was editor of the now-departed Texas Business magazine, did time as a Dallas Morning News columnist for seven years and is now a business consultant specializing in strategic business transformation. He includes companies such as Boeing in his client list.

Unlike most sites, Bennett has some regular contributors with some real bona fides including former News columnist Carolyn Barta, current DMN columnist Bill Murchison, former DMN technology editor Doug Bedell and Lone Star Report editor Will Lutz...

The site is intended to be a broad based town hall kind of blog with both the right and the left well represented.

Now, I'm not sure how based in fact some of their stories are today, but they do mention a couple interesting theories. One is that GSD&M ad man and Austinite Roy Spence would run for the Democratic Nomination for Gov. Now, that's not new news around these parts, but certainly not something that I've seen any wind blowing behind of late. The second one is interesting but as unlikly as the first...

The hot rumor in Houston is that former Democratic Congressman Chris Bell may drop his candidacy for Governor and be replaced by Houston Mayor Bill White. A Houston political insider tells DallasBlog that, once White is re-elected Mayor of Houston next month the stage would be set for Bell to withdraw from the race in favor of White.

I'll keep on eye on it.