Kwame Malik Kilpatrick is an American politician,convicted fraudster and racketeer,who previously served as the 72nd mayor of Detroit –from 2002 to 2008. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously represented the 9th district in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1997 to 2002. Kilpatrick resigned as mayor in September 2008 after being convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice. He was sentenced to four months in jail and was released on probation after serving 99 days.
Edwin Everett Pawlowski is an American politician and convicted felon who served as the 41st Mayor of Allentown,Pennsylvania. He held the office from 2006 until his resignation in 2018,following his election to a fourth term in 2017. He resigned after being convicted on 47 federal charges related to corruption as mayor of Allentown.
"Window Seat" is a song by Erykah Badu. It is the lead single from her album New Amerykah Part Two (2010). It was produced by Badu and James Poyser. The song is low-tempo ballad with lyrics that concern escapism and longing for a lover. The music video for "Window Seat" features Badu walking the streets around Dealey Plaza in Dallas,Texas,slowly stripping to the nude,before being shot by an unseen assassin. Badu's public nudity,guerrilla filming,and the video's allusions to the assassination of John F. Kennedy were met with controversy among fans and critics.
Anthony Cobos is an American politician from the State of Texas in the United States. He served as the El Paso County Judge from 2007 to 2011 and is a former member of the El Paso City Council. El Paso County,Texas,is located on the border of the United States and Mexico.
Thomas Chris Leppert is an American businessman and former politician who is the former CEO of Kaplan,Inc.,one of the world's largest education providers. He had oversight of the company's operating divisions until his resignation was announced in July 2015. Leppert,a member of the Republican Party,previously served as the 58th mayor of Dallas,Texas from 2007 to 2011 and was unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2012.
John Tran is an American former politician who served on the Rosemead,California city council.
Monica Ann Conyers is an American politician in Detroit,Michigan. Elected to the Detroit City Council in 2005,she was elected by its members to serve as president pro tempore of the council for the four-year term.
Barbara Mallory Caraway is an American politician who served as a member of the Texas House of Representatives for the 110th district from 2007 to 2013.
Anson Chi was born in New York City. He attended Plano Senior High School at Plano,Texas,and graduated in 1996. Chi was arrested for theft in 1998 in San Angelo,Texas.
John Wiley Price is a Democratic politician in Dallas,Texas. He has been the Dallas County Commissioner for District 3 since January 1,1985. He campaigns as "Our Man Downtown".
Operation Bid Rig was a long-term investigation into political corruption in New Jersey conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,the Internal Revenue Service,and the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2014.
Saulie Zajdel is a former politician in Montreal,Quebec,Canada. He served as Montreal City Councillor for the districts of Victoria and Darlington in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce from 1986 to 2009,serving on the city's executive committee from 1994 to 2001. After running in the 2011 Canadian federal election for the Conservative Party in the riding of Mount Royal,where he lost to the Liberal candidate by less than 2,500 votes,he was employed by Conservative Minister of Canadian Heritage James Moore as “a liaison between the Government and the city’s cultural communities from October 2011 until he quit in March 2012.”
Eric Lynn Johnson is an American politician and attorney who has served as the 60th mayor of Dallas,Texas,since June 2019. A Republican since September 2023,Johnson previously served as a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives,where he represented District 100 in the cities of Dallas and Mesquite.
The 2011 Dallas mayoral election took place on May 14,2011,to elect the successor to incumbent Mayor Tom Leppert. Leppert decided not to run for a second term,deciding to instead run for United States Senate in 2012. The race is officially nonpartisan. After no candidate received a majority of the votes,the top two candidates –Mike Rawlings and David Kunkle –faced each other in a runoff election on June 18,2011 in which Rawlings prevailed.
Laura Gibbs Maczka Jordan was the Mayor of Richardson,Texas from 2013 to 2015. She had previously become the first woman elected to the post of Mayor Pro Tem in the city's 57-year history as a home rule city. Maczka was initially elected to the Richardson City Council,Place 4 in May 2011 as a Republican,defeating Democrat Karl Voigtsberger by 74.97% to 25.03%. She is believed to be only the 6th woman elected to the city council in the last 40 years.
Patrick DeAngelo Cannon is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served on the City Council of Charlotte,North Carolina from 1994 through 2013 and was subsequently elected the city's 56th Mayor in November 2013. On March 26,2014,Cannon was arrested on charges of accepting over $48,000 in bribes from undercover FBI agents posing as businessmen wanting to work with the city. Cannon resigned as mayor later that evening,and was later sentenced to 44 months in prison.
Erin Nealy Cox is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas from 2017 to 2021. She was nominated to the position by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2017. After the 2020 election,she resigned effective January 9,2021,and joined Kirkland &Ellis as a partner on June 23,2021.
Albert Louis "Al" Lipscomb was a seven-term Dallas City Council member and a longtime advocate for civil rights. He was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit in the 1970s that successfully challenged Dallas' system of electing every council member citywide,forcing the city to change to a mostly single-member district system.
The 2021 Dallas City Council election will determine all 14 city council members in Dallas,Texas. The election occurred on May 1,2021. By law,Dallas municipal elections are nonpartisan. In races where no candidate took a majority of over 50% of the total vote,the two top vote-earners advanced to a runoff election. Due to term limits,council members are limited to serving four consecutive terms.
