A group of us community leaders had lunch with Dallas mayor Tom Leppert and his wife Laura today at city hall. My first impression with Tom during the campaign was that he is a committed business leader. He was questioned about his standing on green buildings. His answer was that he's all for it but it must make business sense. That impression was cemented today with his many answers regarding the direct flight from Asia to the DFW airport, the Trinity River Project, Dallas air quality, Dallas' competitiveness in the flat world economy, .... His wife Laura has great political sense, who provides great support to her husband, and does all she can to promote his public image, unlike some of the political spouses like Giuliani's wife Judith Nathan, or Fred Thompson's wife Jeri Kehn, ... who manage only to generate bad press for their husbands.