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Catfight between Dallas DA, Commissioners presages 2010 elections

Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins will draw a Republican opponent in 2010, the Dallas News reports, with the news coming at a time when the state's first African American DA is under more serious fire than ever in his brief political career.It's hard to imagine those two facts are unrelated, but there's also an extent to which Watkins brought some of the extra misery onto himself. Lately, the DA has been engaged in a bitter pissing match with the County Commissioners Court over his budget that's escalating like a schoolyard spat between 11-year olds with all their so-called friends gathered in a circle egging them on.Whoever's advising Craig Watkins in his budget wars with the Commissioners Court is supplying him poor counsel. He's been holding "town hall meetings" on the topic, publicly inviting county commissioners like John Wiley Price who he knows won't attend, then castigating them in their absence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 08, 2009 (boomark / email).