The Democrat is state Rep. Barbara Caraway. Her district is in the Dallas area. On January 2, her husband, Dallas Mayor Dwaine Caraway, called the police on a domestic disturbance. Questions soon arose as to just what went down that night, and Mr. Caraway tried the lie first:
Caraway called Dallas Police Chief David Brown and asked him to send an elite team of investigators to his home to investigate a disturbance. Caraway later told reporters the disturbance involved two guests, “Arthur and Archie,” who were arguing about football.
Problem: That wasn’t true. He was really in a big fight with Mrs. Caraway (the state Rep.) about some aprons. Archie and Arthur may not even exist. But there was a police tape of the incident, and Mayor Caraway fired up the city machinery to keep that tape away from the press and the public. I’ll let Texas Watchdog pick up the story from there.
After involving everyone from Dallas Police Chief David Brown, the city attorney and the state Attorney General to obstruct our public freedom to indulge in tawdry information, it took a Dallas judge to get Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway to hand over a police recording of a domestic violence call to his home on Jan. 2.
It pretty much turned out to be what everybody expected, a battle royal between Caraway and his wife, state Rep. Barbara Mallory Caraway, D-Dallas, according to the tape released today and carried by NBC Dallas Fort Worth.
While pretending not to be a bit interested in the lurid circumstances of a politician pulling a knife on another politician to whom he happens to be married, what is fascinating is how much taxpayer-financed civic machinery got cranked up to keep a police blotter item secret.
Not to mention questions about what is to be done about the mayor pro tem’s original and now discredited account of what prompted him to call police in the first place, involving friends Archie and Arthur who may or may not exist.
The tape, at the NBC link above, is really something. Mr. Caraway admits without saying directly, that his wife, a woman who has some impact on the lives of everyday Texans, is violently crazy. She pulled a knife on him, it was quite the brouhaha. He sounds like a patient man on the tape, but to the public he has repeatedly lied. Rep. Caraway is on the Homeland Security & Public Safety Committee (yeah) and the Urban Affairs Committee in the state House. Their domestic dispute ended up embroiling major figures in city government. Mayor Caraway still has yet to tell the whole truth about all this. He called his loss in court yesterday, the battle to block the release of the tapes, “another win for the high dollar people.” In Austin for the legislative session, Rep. Caraway has yet to comment at all. The Texas Democratic Party is likewise mum about two of its electeds being involved in all this, but surely Matt “Shadow Party” Angle will note this over on his watchdog site shortly. Riiiight.
These two Dallas Democrats are still scandal amateurs compared to what goes on in Detroit, but it sounds like they’re trying to catch up in a hurry.
Oh, in case you’re wondering, yes, this is the same mayor who gave Michael Vick a key to the city of Dallas.
Update: From the comments at Ace – It was just a “kinetic household debate.” But was it time-limited, scope-limited?
So – it’s a straight up domestic violence with a deadly weapon charge …. right?
Oh, wait, the victim (or potential victim) was MAN.
So, no comments from the local DV advocates, shelter representatives, or anyone involved in the DA’s office about a “zero tolerence for domestic violence”.
Does this stand out to anyone else?
They rule us.
I think they are the norm.
It explaings a lot.
Looks like the people in Dallas have picked a bald faced liar and obstructor of justice for Mayor and the people in the Dallas area have elected a wack job for State Rep. Is there a lot of dope smoking going on there or were these people elected due to the fact they idiots and the people of Dallas are idiots so there was a compatibility factor?
From an observer in a near-by county, the answer to your question is ‘yes’, as Dallas is another corrupt big city where voter fraud, crooked politicians at all levels and graft have always been the norm. It is the only city in Texas that lost population in the new census, as people are fleeing the drug and crime-infested streets. It’s heading for the title ‘Detroit of the Southwest’.
The elected mayor of Dallas recently resigned to run for RINO Hutchison’s Senate seat in 2012.
This guy is the fill-in. He has also said that he will not run for mayor in the next election.
If he lived in Detroit, he could now be mayor for life, but his chances in Dallas aren’t as good (but not zero. The Dallas electorate is more “progressive” than you might imagine, with large black, hispanic and gay populations. The conservative millions mostly live in the surrounding communities.)
Heed the words of Obo-Won:
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun”
I’m not surprised. He’s just playing to his voter base, basically in Dallas it goes like this for most: Black Democrat > Democrat > Anything Else. I’m calling it right now – neither he nor his wife will lose their next election (unless they wind up in jail).
“neither he nor his wife will lose their next election (unless they wind up in jail)”.
Jurors come from the DMV/Voter registration info. Translation=they will be re-elected, even if they are in jail.
Bushs’ ranch is in Texas, hence it is all his fault(?). I’ve been a Dem for 3 minutes now, and already my brane hertz.
Brother can’t handle his woman.