Dust Storm Award

Annual Dust Storm Award

2009 Dust Storm Award winner:
State Rep. Delwin Jones

1st Runner-Up: Lubbock Councilman Todd Klein
2nd Runner-Up: State Senator Robert Duncan

Just 4 votes separated the winner and runners-up!

2009 Nominees are below. Many were nominated many times. I've taken the most clever nickname entries and listed them.

Becky "Be Nice" Garza

Becky "Can't take a joke" Garza

Becky "Perfect Review" Garza

Bill "Patti's daily lunch date" McCay

Bill "Vote Karin" McCay

Bob "Anti-Conservative" Craig

Bob "don't call me conservative" Craig

Bob "Remove the R" Craig

Cliff "pulitzer prize" Burnett

Delwin "can't retire" Jones

Delwin "don't wake me" Jones

Delwin "Father of the Strip Monopoly" Jones

Delwin "I co-sponsered" Jones

Delwin "Jordon Machine" Jones

Delwin "Leave your constituents IN the dust" Jones

Delwin "My Misrepresentative" Jones

Delwin "Rhino" Jones

Delwin "Sleepy, Dopey or Sleezy" Jones

Don "Call me Mr. Phylis" Caldwell

Don "I have my free parking lot" Caldwell

Floyd "for sale for the right price" Price

Floyd "what meeting? When?" Price

Gerald "can't negotiate" Myers

Gerald "Move it to the Metro" Myers

Greg "Baghdad" Stevens

Greg "Why're you always pickin' on me?" Stevens

Kay "I deserve it, you owe it to me" Hutchison

Kevin "dog pound" Overstreet

Kevin "To Big To Fail" Overstreet

Lee Ann "Let's Divide the City" Dumbauld

Lee Ann "Martin Loves Me" Dumbauld

Lee Ann "Still out of the spotlight" Dumbauld

Linda "Can't speak English or Spanish" DeLeon

Linda "Read my Biography" DeLeon

Linda "squeaky voice" DeLeon

Matt "I Know Nothing! Nothing! Shcultz" Powell

Matt "I pick my targets" Powell

Matt "I’m not political" Powell

Matt "selective prosecution" Powell

Patti "I need ANOTHER raise" Jones

Patti "is my skirt tight enough" Jones

Patti "should I leash McCay" Jones

Paul "Maria's 2nd Best Buddy" Beane

Paul "Maria's main man" Beane

Paul "remember when" Beane

Paul "They call the wind Maria" Beane

Robert "Hope they don't shoot" Duncan

Robert "I was against it before I was for it" Duncan

Robert "I'd rather be in Austin" Duncan

Robert "RINO" Duncan

Robert "tech's senator" Duncan

Robert "The Politician" Duncan

Robert "Trial Lawyers Friend" Duncan

Robert "Yeller dawg" Duncan't

Terry "Captain of the Titanic" Greenburg

Todd "scratch your back if you scratch mine" Klein

Todd "Where's the TV camera?" Klein

Tom "SOS" Martin

Tom Adams, deputy city mgr.

Truth Against Alcohol Sales PAC TAAS

Wayne "Outta here with your $" Havens

Wayne "Retire Rich" Havens

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.

2009 voting closed.

Past "Winners"

2008 Awards

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

2007 Awards (inaugural year)

	David Miller, Lubbock mayor, WINNER
	Lee Ann Dumbauld, Lubbock city manager, 1st Runner Up
	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.

	"Out of the spotlight" Dumbauld, Lubbock city manager (1st runner-up in 2007)
	Becky "Can't County" Garza, Lubbock city secretary
	Jere "Red Light Camera" Hart, Lubbock traffic engineer (alt. "Can I make 'em stop @ every light" & "I Quit") (2nd runner-up in 2007)
	Kevin "six million dollar dog man" Overstreet, city of Lubbock animal services director & "homeland" security chief
	Lubbock Gang of Four: Miller, Jones, DeLeon & Price
	Phyllis "I didn't profit" Jones, former Lubbock council woman
	Floyd "if the price is right" Price, Lubbock councilman
	Linda "Read my Biography" DeLeon, Lubbock councilwoman (alt. "Legend in my own Mind",
	Jim "Please Like Me" Gilbreath, Lubbock councilman
	Todd "Barking at the Moon" Klein, Lubbock councilman
	Tom "Just turn off their water" Martin, Lubbock's new mayor
	Terry "...the...illiterate...editor" Greenberg (at the Lubbock A.J.)
	Lubbock A.J. "editors"
	Armando Gonzales, former Lubbock council candidate
	Jerry "I am not negative & you'll say anything to get elected" Bell, former Lubbock council candidate
	Jeff "the blogger" Klotzman, Fox34 TV news anchor
	Wayne "What Ph.D.?" Havens, Lubbock ISD chief (alt. "Don't blame me")
	Delwin Jones' advertising agency
	Delwin "rep for life" Jones (alt. "behind closed doors" & "sine die")
	Texas Child Protective Services (CPS)
	John "Damn the Conservatives" McCain
	Guv "I won't get out" Huckabee
	Roger "can't handle a petition" Settler, activist
	John Steinmetz, former Lubbock GOP chairman
	Don "Mr. Phyllis Jones" Caldwell (alt. "Don of the Depot District" & "I have my free parking lot")
	Tony "Prove-It" Privett, consultant to Lubbock city manager (alt. "Make it Up")
	Claude "chief Chippendale" Jones, former Lubbock police chief
	Clif "I'm a real journalist" Burnett
	"You can't get there from here" TXDOT
	Opponents of Congressman Randy Neugebauer
	Mindless Zombies for Obama
	Barack "That was not the me I know" Obama
	Al "I want another chance" Gore
	Jim "I wish Lubbock was more like Dallas" Douglas, TTU employee & radio host
	Eddie "I want to be in the press" McBride
	Creator of Lubbock airport detour
	Dan "I moved to Dallas" Sanders, United Supermarket chief

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

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