Did City Council Watchers Who Thought Danny Thomas Wasn Ready for Prime Time Miss Something?
By Louis Dubose The fragment of scripture on the white banner hanging behind the altar at Eph’phatha Full Gospel Baptist Church refers to Pastor Thomas as “The Chosen One.” Not Danny Thomas, the first-term City Council member and the administrative pastor of the church at 12th and Chicon. The one chosen is Dr. Nathanial Thomas, a dynamic, charismatic, “preachin’, teachin’, shoutin’, and runnin'” pastor who is the rock upon which Eph’phatha is built. A banner that referred to administrative pastor Danny Thomas (no relation to Nathanial) might ask: “Who is it that men say I am?” Not that Danny Thomas — a sober, thoughtful man possessed of all the charisma of an elder Anglican deacon — has any doubt about who he is, who he represents, or where he’s going. But ever since Thomas — backed by $25,000 from former Dallas Cowboy Thomas “Hollywood” Henderson and $7,000 from the Austin Police Association — defeated one-term incumbent Willie Lewis, anyone trying to handicap the Austin City Coun
