Dallas politics

We Asked, They Answered: District 13 Candidates Leland Burk, Jennifer Staubach Gates, and Richard Sheridan

By Joanna England / April 8, 2013 /

Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of our series of Dallas City Council candidate questionnaires. We attempted to contact each candidate in every contested race (10 races total), and those who responded with a working email address received the same eight questions. We gave them until April 5 to respond. Below you’ll find the answers to our questions, which we did not edit or abridge.

We chose District 13 candidates Leland Burk, Jennifer Staubach Gates, and Richard P. Sheridan to be our first questionnaires posted here on CandysDirt.com because, besides the District 1 race that pits incumbents against one another, and the wide field of District 14, this is the race to watch!

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Will His Real Estate Deals Finish Off John Wiley Price and a Blast From the Past

By Candy Evans / June 30, 2011 /

My head is still swimming after reading Jim Schutze’s column describing the Dallas Real Estate dealings of John Wiley Price, whose homes, offices, PA, just about everything including his plumbing were raided on Monday by the F.B.I. While we await word on what the Feds have on him, Schutze pulled some property land records that…

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