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  Annual Dust Storm Award  

Past "Winners"
 
2008 Awards
 
bullet WINNER: Lee Ann "Out of the spotlight" Dumbauld, Lubbock city manager
bullet 1st Runner Up: Linda "Read my biography" DeLeon, city councilwoman
bullet 2nd Runner Up: Wayne "Half of My High Schools Suck" Havens, Lubbock ISD chief
 
bullet See the voting totals here

2007 Awards (inaugural year)

bullet David Miller, Lubbock mayor, WINNER
bullet Lee Ann Dumbauld, Lubbock city manager, 1st Runner Up
bullet Jere "Red Light" Hart, Lubbock traffic engineer, 2nd Runner Up


2008 Nominees are below. Many were nominated many times. I've taken the most clever nickname entry. I've not included unknown persons, KFYO personnel, & Pratt on Texas associates.

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 "Out of the spotlight" Dumbauld, Lubbock city manager (1st runner-up in 2007)

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Becky "Can't County" Garza, Lubbock city secretary

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Jere "Red Light Camera" Hart, Lubbock traffic engineer (alt. "Can I make 'em stop @ every light" & "I Quit") (2nd runner-up in 2007)

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Kevin "six million dollar dog man" Overstreet, city of Lubbock animal services director & "homeland" security chief

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Lubbock Gang of Four: Miller, Jones, DeLeon & Price

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Phyllis "I didn't profit" Jones, former Lubbock council woman

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Floyd "if the price is right" Price, Lubbock councilman

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Linda "Read my Biography" DeLeon, Lubbock councilwoman (alt. "Legend in my own Mind",

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Jim "Please Like Me" Gilbreath, Lubbock councilman

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Todd "Barking at the Moon" Klein, Lubbock councilman

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Tom "Just turn off their water" Martin, Lubbock's new mayor

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Terry "...the...illiterate...editor" Greenberg (at the Lubbock A.J.)

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Lubbock A.J. "editors"

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Armando Gonzales, former Lubbock council candidate

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Jerry "I am not negative & you'll say anything to get elected" Bell, former Lubbock council candidate

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Jeff "the blogger" Klotzman, Fox34 TV news anchor

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Wayne "What Ph.D.?" Havens, Lubbock ISD chief (alt. "Don't blame me")

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Delwin Jones' advertising agency

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Delwin "rep for life" Jones (alt. "behind closed doors" & "sine die")

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Texas Child Protective Services (CPS)

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John "Damn the Conservatives" McCain

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Guv "I won't get out" Huckabee

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Roger "can't handle a petition" Settler, activist

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John Steinmetz, former Lubbock GOP chairman

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Don "Mr. Phyllis Jones" Caldwell (alt. "Don of the Depot District" & "I have my free parking lot")

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Tony "Prove-It" Privett, consultant to Lubbock city manager (alt. "Make it Up")

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Claude "chief Chippendale" Jones, former Lubbock police chief

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Clif "I'm a real journalist" Burnett

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"You can't get there from here" TXDOT

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Opponents of Congressman Randy Neugebauer

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Mindless Zombies for Obama

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Barack "That was not the me I know" Obama

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Al "I want another chance" Gore

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Jim "I wish Lubbock was more like Dallas" Douglas, TTU employee & radio host

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Eddie "I want to be in the press" McBride

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Creator of Lubbock airport detour

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Dan "I moved to Dallas" Sanders, United Supermarket chief

 

See some great Dust Storm photos in the Dirty Days Gallery.
   

Nominate the person,
who over the past year,
has most choked you up,
burned your eyes, and
has been as irritating as a
 West Texas dust storm!

Sample of the Dust Storm Award certificate

We will bestow this inglorious epithet upon the person elected by the people of the High Ground of Texas from among the nominees chosen by Pratt on Texas listeners.


Nominations have closed.

 

 
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