by Daryl Slusher | Dec 10, 2024 | Austin Elections
I was hoping to take December completely off to celebrate the holiday season, but I ultimately decided that, as the publisher of a local news source, I have a responsibility to remind readers that there is a runoff election for City Council on Saturday December 14....
by Daryl Slusher | Nov 18, 2024 | Austin Elections, City Council 2024
If you like the current make-up of the Austin City Council then you should be really happy with the recent Council election results. In fact it looks like the Council “progressive” supermajority — the one that merged progressive politics with the best interests of...
by Daryl Slusher | Oct 29, 2024 | City Council 2024, Police and Public Safety
Well, love him, hate him, or indifferent, you have to give Kirk Watson credit for getting the police contract over the finish line. It passed on a vote of 10 to 1 (Zo Qadri voting no) after an even more raucous than usual public hearing. It wasn’t just Watson. This...
by Daryl Slusher | Oct 10, 2024 | Austin Elections, City Council 2024
This is the third and final installment in our series about the Kirk Watson Vision Test. For more on what I mean by the vision test see Part 1 and Part 2. Part 1 focuses on how in 2023 Watson sided with far left activists to kill a proposed four-year contract between...
by Daryl Slusher | Oct 9, 2024 | Austin Elections, City Council 2024
All right, in our first installment of this series we discussed what I call the Kirk Watson Vision Test which is akin to an optometry test in which a patient is asked to look into a machine and tell the doctor when two alike objects line up with each other. The two...