The Ides of May: How Politics Plays a Role in Fort Worth s Mayoral Race This Year
With the race to succeed Mayor Betsy Price in a full sprint to the finish â polls close May 1 â the campaign trail has a new obstacle: politics.
Peoples, Zadeh, Parker photos by Olaf Growald
In another time and place in Fort Worth history, City Councilman Jim Bradshaw counseled his colleague on the local government board, Woodie Woods, Fort Worthâs political plumber and one of the townâs more noted political philosophers, as he plotted a run for mayor in the late 1970s.Â
As it was recounted in those days by a reporter, the encounter went like this:
of decorum on his part, and that causes people to be somewhat skeptical about the speech. everyone has to remember the backdrop. the government shutdown, a week away. we re a week away from another crisis. we have debt ceiling to raise. we have supplement emergency supplemental funding coming up, there s an incredible legislative calendar that nobody is talking about, right? and the president recognizes this, that he needs democrats in the spenate to accomplish that. otherwise i m telling what i m looking for that would be positive. number one, criminal justice reform. we know that jared kushner has been in there fighting for that. that is something that people could actually come together and get done. if van and the koch brothers agree on that van jones and newt gingrich, so listen. there s something that could happen that would be positive. on the infrastructure side, there s something that could be done a bad way, could be done a good way. that s a worthy conversation