Major metropolitan daily newspaper gaffe of the day

This is one of the funniest ones I’ve seen in a long time. From today’s Dallas Morning News, page 1A, below the fold, a story about this weekend’s Republican state convention in Houston.

The 2nd paragraph reads as follows:
“For the first time in 15 years, Texas Republicans are on the defensive — consider Democratic leader Boyd Richie’s bold promise that his party would seize control of Harris County just as Dallas County did in 2006.”

Um, Dallas County seized control of Harris County in 2006??? I had no idea! So there’s been a secret war between Dallas County and a county 300 miles away, and nobody knew about it? Maybe that’s why Dallas County is $30+ million in the hole and trying to cut costs. It all makes perfect sense now. All I know is that my co-workers and I got a big kick out of that sentence.

I think the writer meant to say the Dems were promising to take control of Harris County (which is where Houston is) just as they did in Dallas County two years ago, when public dissatisfaction with Republicans spilled over into local races that had nothing to do with the national party and every single Republican judge in Dallas County who had a Democrat opponent lost in the 2006 election.

I know the Morning News has laid off or bought out a lot of their staff in the past couple of years, but seriously, do they not employ copy editors anymore? How did that sentence make it to print without being spotted? Morning News publishers, in case you’re reading this, I can do editing work and I’ll ask for very reasonable pay. Trust me, you could use the help.