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Oakley, Leppert tussle over tactics
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| Contributor | TX DEM |
| Last Edited | TX DEM Jun 02, 2007 04:14pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Dallas Morning News |
| News Date | Saturday, June 2, 2007 05:55:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Dallas mayoral candidates Ed Oakley and Tom Leppert sat silently, side by side, as one of Mr. Oakley's recent campaign commercials flashed on a TV monitor. In it, Mr. Leppert is portrayed as a corporate swindler and toxic dumper.
"It is false, it is misleading and it should be pulled. That's not what the people of Dallas deserve," said Mr. Leppert, the former Turner Corp. chief executive's voice growing louder as he scolded Mr. Oakley for injecting negativity into the campaign.
Mr. Oakley's eyes narrowed as he turned to Mr. Leppert and began waving a sheet of paper.
"Is this not a negative piece? This was already going out, it had to have been prepared a week ago. You did the same thing to [former candidate] Max Wells. You went negative on his crime district," Mr. Oakley said of a new Leppert mailer that paints Mr. Oakley as uninterested in improving educational opportunities in Dallas.
This exchange, among several others during an hourlong Dallas Morning News and WFAA-TV (Channel 8) candidate debate Friday night, illustrated how the previously Wimbledon-like contest is becoming ever more acrimonious as the June 16 runoff nears.
Crime, economic development and leadership philosophies – long the campaign's staple issues – played secondary roles in the debate to accusations of corporate theft, unethical behavior and, simply, poor taste. |
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