by Daryl Slusher | May 19, 2021 | Environment, Strong Mayor Initiative, True Stories
The Prop B results have rightly gotten almost all the post election attention and analysis since the May 1 election. (Prop B was the reversal of the Council’s June 2019 repeal of the public camping ban.) That has been the case here at the Austin Independent as well as...
by Daryl Slusher | May 13, 2021 | Police and Public Safety, Texas Legislature
One thing that the Prop B results exposed was that there is a lot of unoccupied ground in the political middle. By that I specifically mean between the majority of citizens and the Austin City Council, and often between the majority of citizens and the more active and...
by Daryl Slusher | May 5, 2021 | Austin Elections
The votes are in and it was a rough Saturday night for members of the Austin City Council, especially the architects of the camping ban repeal. That would be Council Member Greg Casar, former Mayor Pro Tem/current Travis County Attorney Delia Garza, current Mayor Pro...
by Daryl Slusher | May 5, 2021 | Austin Elections
Here are a few basic math factors that led to the Prop B victory, the public camping ban, by a margin of 57% to 43%. Republicans did indeed vote for Prop B by large margins and turnout tended to be higher in suburban areas where there are a higher percentage of...
by Daryl Slusher | May 5, 2021 | Austin Elections
Here is a short summary of the verdict from Austin voters in Austin’s May 1 municipal election. Prop A. Voters overwhelmingly (81%) approved a measure empowering the Austin firefighters union to force the City into binding arbitration when negotiations deadlock. Prop...
