prairie point

There’s a new weblog called The Burnt Orange Report and a couple days back it had a pretty good post about the Dallas mayoral election coming up.

I live in North Dallas and I find it surprising the amount of support Laura Miller has here in what I think of as a Republican stronghold. As in the special election last fall, there are a huge number of yard signs for her. As a councilwoman and as a reporter before that she opposed the big business projects previous mayors were known for. As a candidate she campaigned instead on improving the services that average citizens really need. Why can’t that strategy work at higher levels of government as well?