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...
by Daryl Slusher | Oct 8, 2024 | Austin Elections, City Council 2024
Say what you want about Mayor Kirk Watson, but the guy is a skilled political pro. By that I don’t mean the derisive “professional politician” label which is generally used to charge that someone has never done anything else but be a politician and earns their living...
by Daryl Slusher | Sep 24, 2024 | City Council 2024
Well, let’s pick up right where we left off on the proposed City Charter amendments that would increase the powers of the Mayor and Council Members — at the expense of the City Manager and the citizenry. As noted in previous installments, the Austin Independent is...
