They're all kinds of people, ethnically speaking. And the one kind of person you really don't want to see go ballistic is a smart middle-class dude who knows where to aim. One of the angriest and most disillusioned people I spoke with was Randy Staff, who is a CPA, a former partner in one of the big international accounting firms, current owner of American Bank on Northwest Highway, and husband of the president of the Dallas school board. Staff believes one possible explanation for the city's refusal to help the Bachman Lake area is corruption at the top. Staff doesn't accuse Bolton of criminal corruption, but he is disappointed that Bolton isn't, in his view, more obviously on the side of the law.
Staff is willing to spread the blame around.
But the person on whom Staff and others in that part of town heap their most bitter scorn is Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk. They are furious that Kirk has said he does not want an investigation of Bolton and, by inference, of sex club corruption in the police department. So committed to rescuing his part of town is Staff that he traveled to New York a couple of years ago and spoke with Mayor Rudy Giuliani and top staff members about the campaign to clean up Times Square. To do anything, you have to have the mayor 100 percent committed. Instead, Mayor Kirk has dithered and dallied and taken so many positions on the sex clubs that his detractors in the Bachman Lake area are asking pointed questions about who's got what on whom.