by Daryl Slusher | Oct 27, 2020 | Austin Elections
District 6 in Northwest Austin is one of the most hotly contested of the five City Council elections. Local media have tended to portray the District 6 race as dark forces of the right wing seeking to unseat “progressive” Jimmy Flannigan. As the Austin...
by Daryl Slusher | Oct 27, 2020 | Austin Elections, True Stories
Those of us who focus on and care about government generally do so because we want the government to do a good job. Especially on the Democratic side, we want government to work. And, when we see it working well, the view here is that we should say so. With that...
by Daryl Slusher | Oct 21, 2020 | Austin Elections
Like its neighbor, District 6, the District 10 race is a humdinger. Incumbent Alison Alter drew six challengers. The bevy of candidates may more reflect overall discontent with Council policies as a whole than with Alter herself; although, like in other races, some of...
by Daryl Slusher | Oct 21, 2020 | Austin Elections
In District 7 Leslie Pool drew only one opponent, Morgan Witt, a self described “newcomer to the Austin political scene.” According to her campaign website, Witt is an educator whose career and philosophy flowed from “a life-changing class called ‘Educational...
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...
by Daryl Slusher | Sep 16, 2020 | Austin Elections
KUT and the Austin Monitor have announced virtual candidate forums in all the Council races. They can be heard on KUT.org as follows. District 2 — Monday, Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. District 4 — Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 7:30 p.m. District 6 — Monday, Sept. 28 at 7 p.m. District...
