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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Dallas Morning News
Byline: Cheryl Hall
Oct. 30--RIFT WIDENING BETWEEN BUSINESS LEADERS, MAYOR: Trust me. When it comes to Laura Miller, the spring of 2007 can't come soon enough for most of the Dallas business community.
The mayor's battle against billionaire Ray Hunt's tax abatement and her public ridicule of city staff -- heaped onto still-seething anger over the Dallas Cowboys going to Arlington and our smoking ban -- has turned tepid ambivalence to heated hostility. I haven't seen anything like it in three decades of covering Dallas business.
"This is more than a fissure," says Ron Kirk, the former mayor who is now an attorney with Vinson & Elkins LLP. "When you move from disagreement over philosophy and tactics to raw animus, that is a very, very bad place to be."
OK, so Ron Kirk isn't exactly Laura Miller's best friend.
But he knows the necessity of coalition, and he put his name where his mouth is.
I talked with dozens of business leaders, including folks suggested by the...
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