1. The Dallas Morning News has released a pair of polls. The first one shows that Rick Perry has a strong lead over Democratic challenger Bill White, with 46 percent of likely voters supporting the incumbent. The second indicates that Texans favor an “Arizona-type” crackdown on illegal immigration. That’s a cold glass of water to the face of lefty hipsters who forgot we still live in Texas.
2. It looks like the Dallas County district attorney’s office will exonerate a deaf man who pled guilty to a sexual offence, served a five year sentence, and was required to register as a sex offender in Lamar County, even though police found a fingerprint at the scene that matched a serial rapist who was convicted of similar crimes.
3. Attention bond market players, this week’s largest municipal bond offering: the Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s $729 million of Build American Bonds, which will fund bus and rail expansion. According to Bloomberg, that large offering resulted in DART’s Standard & Poor’s rating being cut on September 17, but the lower rating will likely not result in higher borrowing costs for the transit authority.
