Laura Miller: Taking One For The Team
Want to add a name to the list of unexpected contributors to Speaker Tom Craddick's reelection campaign? Dallas Mayor Laura Miller.
Ms. Miller's latest campaign expenditures -- trolled with fingers of fury by my former City Hall deskmate Dave Levinthal -- indicate she spent $2,000 on a catered dinner party for the speaker and his wife Nadine at Dallas' luxurious and legendary downtown Neiman Marcus.
Ms. Miller, who spent Wednesday digging out from far more than snow and ice (try a sewage leak in her Preston Hollow home) said November's dinner for 30 followed a day spent showing Mr. Craddick around downtown, where she and UNT Chancellor Lee Jackson lobbied him for a new law school in the inner city. The law school, which passed the Senate last session, got held up in the House.