*Shakes head and chuckles*
Ah yes. County Commissioner John Wiley "Coyote" Price. Dallas County's longest serving resident nutbar, goof, and race-baiter.
As a resident of the Dallas/Fort Worth area for most of my life, I can speak with some authority on this. He's been around since the early 80s. Maybe
earlier than that.
And yes, Price IS that mono-maniacal about race. He pulls one of these hair-brained stunts every few months. He's actually been relatively below the radar
(amazingly enough) for about 3-4 years now. I'd started to wonder if he was still around. But he finally popped up again. I can TOTALLY believe he either
a) wouldn't know what a "black hole" really was or b) was willing to use it to cause a scene because some white lawyer was getting in his face
about something.
He's fairly savvy with his constituency and seems to "bring home the bacon" on their behalf, I'll give him that. He's pretty much got
such a lock on his district for his office that he doesn't have to worry about getting re-elected. So he can get away with stuff like this year after year.
But he is SO focussed on race issues that he often looks ridiculous. Case in point. This is actually one of his MILDER blow-ups. He's turned shooting
oneself in the foot publicly to a high art form. In fact, there was once a local political cartoon of him and a former candidate for Texas governor I recall. I
forget the specifics, but both of them had said or done some pretty ridiculous things in the same span of days. But JWPs gaffe was (as usual) FAR more
entertaining. So the cartoonist had the candidate for Governor holding a shotgun with a hole in his cartoon feet looking on with admiration as the caricature
of JWP riddled his own feet with a sub-machine gun.
Just do a google search on him if you want to see more stuff like this. This is FAR from his worst.
Every village has its idiot, and Price is ours.
Ah yes. County Commissioner John Wiley "Coyote" Price. Dallas County's longest serving resident nutbar, goof, and race-baiter.
As a resident of the Dallas/Fort Worth area for most of my life, I can speak with some authority on this. He's been around since the early 80s. Maybe
earlier than that.
And yes, Price IS that mono-maniacal about race. He pulls one of these hair-brained stunts every few months. He's actually been relatively below the radar
(amazingly enough) for about 3-4 years now. I'd started to wonder if he was still around. But he finally popped up again. I can TOTALLY believe he either
a) wouldn't know what a "black hole" really was or b) was willing to use it to cause a scene because some white lawyer was getting in his face
about something.
He's fairly savvy with his constituency and seems to "bring home the bacon" on their behalf, I'll give him that. He's pretty much got
such a lock on his district for his office that he doesn't have to worry about getting re-elected. So he can get away with stuff like this year after year.
But he is SO focussed on race issues that he often looks ridiculous. Case in point. This is actually one of his MILDER blow-ups. He's turned shooting
oneself in the foot publicly to a high art form. In fact, there was once a local political cartoon of him and a former candidate for Texas governor I recall. I
forget the specifics, but both of them had said or done some pretty ridiculous things in the same span of days. But JWPs gaffe was (as usual) FAR more
entertaining. So the cartoonist had the candidate for Governor holding a shotgun with a hole in his cartoon feet looking on with admiration as the caricature
of JWP riddled his own feet with a sub-machine gun.
Just do a google search on him if you want to see more stuff like this. This is FAR from his worst.
Every village has its idiot, and Price is ours.