Laura Miller

With a background spanning journalism, government, and corporate communications, Crayton previous led global media relations, crisis communications, and social impact strategy for Mary Kay across nearly forty markets worldwide.

Earlier in his career, he served as chief of staff to Dallas Mayor Laura Miller and worked as an investigative reporter for CBS 11 in Dallas-Fort Worth.

Today, alongside leading Sunwest and Lucern Ford Webb government relations, he remains active in civic and nonprofit leadership across Texas.

Crayton, thanks so much for coming on.

Steven, if this game ever moves, it would move to home and home because, and, and I hope it never does that, but years ago when Joe Castiglione, who's just recently stepping down as athletic director of Oklahoma, and DeLoss Dodds, a long time AD at Texas, when there was a crisis as to whether the game would continue at the State Fair, the crisis was because the Cotton Bowl needed all manner of renovations.

It was kind of in a crumbling state, and the mayor of Dallas, Laura Miller, was against it for a long time.

And there were serious discussions about moving it out of Dallas.

Ultimately, the city relented, the city council, and understood the importance.

Something about the early aughts in Dallas, things got really, really interesting.

They were interesting for me, they were interesting on the show, and they were made eternally more interesting by the woman I had the chance to welcome on a number of occasions between '02 and '07, and that was former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller.

We had just some awesome shows and some wonderful conversations about all kinds of things, agreeing on some things, disagreeing on others.

But as a journalist turned politician, she never shied away from anything and was always upfront about her feelings, and she's gonna be upfront about some feelings right now on this whole notion of what in the world do we do with Dallas City Hall.

So let's talk about that and maybe take a little walk through some stuff we were talking about back in the day.

Laura Miller is here.

How you doing, bud?

I'm good, but all the fire and brimstone is out of my life now 'cause I don't talk to you very often.

I think it was Wednesday or Thursday.

And Laura Miller was essentially facilitating the event.

And the whole purpose of the Save City Hall presser, by the way, was to make an announcement that that the coalition was going to begin a signature drive they need to gather 20 000 signatures to submit to the city secretary to get a ballot amendment on the may election that would declare that dallas must keep the city hall site where it currently is and that the only way to abandon City Hall is by a vote of the citizens, of the eligible voters.

And if you check me out on bronin.substack.com, I wrote a column back in February of 2026.

Yeah, yeah.

The mayor of Dallas, Laura Miller, in 2005 gave a quote to The New York Times about the Dallas underground system, and the quote is, "If I could take a cement mixer and pour cement in and clog up the tunnels, I would do it today."

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"It was the worst urban planning decision that Dallas has ever made.

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No, it can't get worse than the Dallas one.

We should pitch that to the mayor of Dallas.

"Don't fill it with concrete.