The video you see above was posted yesterday by Dallas Kids First, which bills itself as "a non-partisan group of concerned citizens and parents that believes every kid in Dallas deserves access to quality public schools." Yet for an organization that's been around since the fall -- its website was registered in September, and it took to Twitter in November -- and that intends to endorse candidates for the Dallas ISDschool board any day now, not much is really known about Dallas Kids First. For starters, its website doesn't even contain a list of names of folks associated with the group.
To get that we had to go to the Texas Ethics Commission's website, where we found the political action committee's January 2012 campaign finance report. As you'll see below, for a relatively unknown group it has collected quite a bit of dough -- close to $40,000 between Aug. 25 and the end of last year. Half of that has come from two donors: former Goldman Sachs managing director Todd Williams, better known to