Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and I have a rich photographic history together.

​This week, when his trial wrapped up, I was outside the federal courthouse as he and his lawyers came out. The reporters skulked around them, following them a few blocks until they ducked into a building. And the reporters all fell into a hole in the sidewalk.

An associate sent me a screenshot of the reporters following Price.

I was also at Price’s first Dallas County Commissioners meeting Tuesday. There, people started lining up during the public comment portion to tell him they hate the IRS, also.

The associate who took sent that screenshot suggested that instead of referring to him as an associate, I say the picture was courtesy of “Hadley Media Monitoring LLC.” In fact, he was my news director when Price was first charged.

When the FBI raided his offices back in 2011, the media also spent a day skulking around outside the Dallas County offices at the Texas School Book Depository. That year, I had just started reporting again after a couple years stuck in the newsroom anchoring, where you just sit there and don’t skulk around anything (except the coffee machine, am I right office workers?!).

In that case, we’d all crowd around county officials as they walked around outside the building. The FBI had shut the Texas School Book Depository building down while it investigated.

Then, Price had a press conference at his lawyer’s office.

That afternoon, another associate, who didn’t have the foresight to give me a hilarious name to credit the picture to, sent me a screen shot of the press conference, saying I’d just been broadcast across the fifth largest media market in the country picking my nose.

But look at that picture! That’s clearly a scratch!