For those Freepers outside of Dallas, Al Lipscomb is the local Dallas equivalent of Jesse Jackson, except older and with less class.
Elected Dallas officials don't get a salary from the city. Some local benefactors, in order to ensure that black folks could "afford" to serve, paid the cash, "non-bribes," so the could afford to take public office. We have never had an accounting of how much was paid, to whom, and by whom.
The former Dallas mayor, Ron Kirk, a black, is running for US Senate. His wife earned a half million in stock options as a ten month (?) employee of a company owned by the guy who got the land/rights/tax incentives to build the new Dallas arena on Kirk's watch. The papers refuse to even mention this and related dishonesty as Kirk campaigns for state wide office.
If you want to see dumbocrap corruption of Clintonian proportions, watch Dallas. There will be little coverage but there are some alternative media outlets that might provide so honesty.