As far as faces go, this seems like an upgrade.
By Tim Rogers
Published in
FrontBurner
April 20, 2021
11:55 am
Over the weekend,
The Atlantic published an interesting story about Beth Van Duyne, the former Irving mayor who was elected in November to Congress by a district that went for Biden. As the magazine says:
The outcome complicates the narrative about Texas that liberals like to tell: that the state is slowly but surely “turning blue”; that one day soon Texans will wake up, come to their senses, and become Democrats. Van Duyne’s victory suggests that her 2015 strategy of stoking fears of foreigners didn’t make her unelectable in a diverse, growing suburb and may have even aided her. Trump may be gone, but Trump
The Devil in David Kunkle’s Brain
Dallas’ former chief is disappearing.
Sarah Dodd knew something was wrong with her husband in November 2019.
Though, if she’s being honest, she began to worry at least a year before that, probably longer. Something she couldn’t yet define, something still more feeling than fact. Just that thing, said the former television reporter, “when you’re around someone you love and you know when that person is not …”
A pause. A deep breath. Then a choked-back tear.
“. When that person is not himself.”
Nov. 14, 2019, was one day after Dodd’s husband, former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle, turned 69. To celebrate, the couple flew to Santa Barbara, Calif., for a long-planned, eagerly anticipated five-day trip. But days before they were to depart, Dodd said recently, Kunkle grew anxious and agitated the opposite of the composed, rational, carefully logical chief of police she famously wed in December 2006.