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s DALLAS TIMES HERALD, Sunday, April 21, 1985
Palmer savors win
in vitriolic contestDoug Milner/Dallas rimes Hera'
A BEAMING Lori Palmer and a throng of jubilant supporters cele-
brate her convincing victory over City Councilman Paul Fielding
Saturday.FIELDING HART MILKIE
EVANS
By JEFF BROWN
Political Writer
With a jubilant cry of "Ding!
Dong! The witch is dead!" more
than 100 Lori Palmer supporters
danced in celebration Saturday as
the neighborhood activist easily
ousted Councilman Paul Fielding
at the close of one of Dallas' nasti-
est campaigns.
"I beat the son-of-a---!" she
said as returns showed her win-
ning a key precinct. Palmer's nor-
mally prim language had become
vitriolic in the face of what she
called dirty campaigning by
Fielding.
Palmer trounced Fielding, 58
percent to 42 percent, in a race
that pitted intense pro-Palmer
campaigning by homeowners or-
ganizations against Fielding's vast
resources, fattened by large con-
tributions from the business
establishment.
"This is a major victory for all
of us," Palmer told supporters
shortly before 8 p.m. "This is not
a victory for me. It was a state-
ment of affirmation for the kind
of city we want to build."
Moments later, Fielding ca,-v
paign manager Kevin Hamby,
meeting reporters at a sparsely at-
tended election watch party, an--
nnunced simply: "It's over."
Fielding, a 29-year-old investor
and businessman elected two
years ago after a runoff with
Councilman Ricardo Medrano, didnot appear at ns election watch
party until nearly 9 pm.
Palmer said Fielding con e
defeat in a telephone conversatioj
with her shortly before 9 p.m.
"It was a very gracious phoi
call," she said.
As he arrived at his election-
watch party, Fielding hugged
several supporters and said, "Well,
where's the bar?"
Asked later to explain his loss
Fielding said, "People just didn'
come back to the polls. Runoff
are really kind of numbers gain ,
You know who your voters arF
and you get them back to th,
polls, and we just didn't do a ;
good a job of getting them back:~
The District 2 race was one of
the most bitter of this year's coun4
cil campaigns, originally pitting
four challengers against Fielding
and ultimately descending into
fierce round of accusations over
alleged dirty tricks,
Early on, the three major chalk
lingers - Palmer, gay activist
Bill Nelson and Hispanic business
man Joe May vowed to stick
together if any of them made it
into a runoff f with Fielding.
In the runoff, Palmer unleashed
a string of accusations against
Fielding and his backers, at one
point filing a complaint alleging
election fraud.
.Staff writers Rochelle Riley
and Jack Booth contributed to this
storyA13
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