Rep. Dawnna Dukes flirts with reelection run as trial date looms

AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Friday morning, embattled Austin Rep. Dawnna Dukes appeared before Judge Brad Urrutia for a hearing, but she was more than two and a half hours late.
Her docket call was scheduled for 9 a.m. Judge Urrutia referenced her delay while he presided over the case.
“We do start court at 9 o’clock,” Judge Urrutia told Dukes. “Sooner you get here, sooner you’re out of here…”
Dukes was indicted earlier this year on corruption, abuse of of