by Daryl Slusher | Oct 20, 2020 | Austin Elections
Spoiler alert: the most likely outcome from Austin’s City Council elections is that nothing much will change. Five of the ten Council seats are on the ballot. Four incumbents are seeking reelection and all of them, to varying degrees, stand a good chance of winning...
by Daryl Slusher | Oct 20, 2020 | Austin Elections
Leave it to those West Austin residents to really stir things up. Readers may recall a recent Austin Independent article on the race for the open District 2 Council seat in mostly Southeast Austin. There, candidates shared many positions on issues and were extremely...
by Daryl Slusher | Oct 20, 2020 | Austin Elections
In the District 4 Council race incumbent Greg Casar faces two opponents. One, environmental engineer Louis Herrin III, ran for the seat in 2014 and 2016, topping out at 16% in 2016. Casar’s second opponent, Ramesses II Setepenre is a political newcomer. On his...
by Daryl Slusher | Oct 13, 2020 | Austin Elections
The District 2 Council race is one of those occasional election contests where the earnestness and clear commitment of the candidates can stir hope among those still capable of harboring it. District 2 covers southeast Austin, basically everything in the the City...
by Daryl Slusher | Oct 7, 2020 | Austin Elections
It is really hard to turn away even momentarily from the national political spectacle, with the coronavirus-denying president getting it himself, positive test results being announced (at least) daily among prominent Republicans, and the election now less than a month...
