El Cid Makes Three For Place Four

Ex-Planning Commissioner Cid Galindo is getting into the Austin city council race to replace the retiring Betty Dunkerley, bringing to three the number of candidates who have announced for the seat. One-time City Hall staffer Robin Cravey and veteran neighborhood activist Laura Morrison had previously announced.

Posted on December 11, 2007 – 7:19 am by APR

  1. 13 Responses to “El Cid Makes Three For Place Four”

  2. This is going to be one hell of a race. A developer vs. an environmentalist/poet vs. a nimby-alist. All we need is a libertarian and a homeless cross-dresser and we’ll have a microcosm of Austin political debate over the last fifteen years. NOTE: I’m not using ‘developer’ in the usual derogatory sense here. I like Galindo from the little I’ve seen of him and I look forward to learning more about him.

    By Kedron Jerome Touvell on Dec 11, 2007

  3. McBlogger has an interesting take on this race too.

    By Matt Glazer on Dec 12, 2007

  4. Frustrated that the reporters in this town don’t do any reporting, I went to the City Clerk’s site and did some snooping around. Seems there’s a few more potential candidates for place 4 (they have filed campaign treasurer reports):

    1. a bearded environmentalist http://allendemling.org/

    2. Our own native son/daughter, Jennifer Gale!

    By Kedron Jerome Touvell on Dec 12, 2007

  5. thanks for the link, Matt. The TPPF association is bad, but I won’t disqualify him based on that alone (Remember Noriega and his prior associations), especially since he’s not the only person at the firm (in fact the only executive profile on the site is of Ramiro Galindo, presumably his father).

    By Kedron Jerome Touvell on Dec 12, 2007

  6. I second the comments about Cid. I have seen no evidence that he’s an ideologue in the past, but his dad might be. His resume certainly doesn’t look like a TPPF guy:

    http://www.cidgalindo.com/cgresume.asp

    By M1EK on Dec 13, 2007

  7. Cid may not currently be in the executive profile but his resume lists him as the President of the Galindo Group. I think the president of a company ought to stand behind what’s on his company website. The fact that the TPPF is prominently listed is disturbing.

    By crazylib78704 on Dec 17, 2007

  8. Judging by your comments here and elsewhere, crazylib78704, you might have felt right at home in the McCarthy Era of innuendo and smear tactics.

    By Willis on Dec 17, 2007

  9. I think your handle pretty much says it all crazylib.

    By googleguy on Dec 18, 2007

  10. Kedron Jerome Touvell, your true nature is showing. Calling Laura Morrison a NIMBY-alist (very clumsy word, I might add) shows your hard feelings that ANC did not back your unsuccessful run for City Council two years ago in favor of Sheryl Cole.

    Yes, Cid Galindo is a nice guy, but he’s a developer and has no place on our City Council. We need representatives of the common citizen, not the special interests that are destroying our downtown with their monolithic monstrosities. I don’t mind development, but development with taste that fits into the environment of Austin.

    By Elle on Jan 3, 2008

  11. Yo Elle! Kedron didn’t run against Sheryl Cole, he ran against Brewster McCracken. I’d also take a thousand downtown “monolithic monstrosities,” as you put it, over miles and miles of McMansion-filled sprawl. Gots to go up rather than out.

    By BeatrixKiddo on Jan 3, 2008

  12. Elle, like you, I’m real upset about all the surface parking lots and car dealers downtown that have been destroyed by these ‘monolithic monstrosities’. Can we form a group to protect these endangered species tout-suite?

    By M1EK on Jan 4, 2008

  13. Hello Elle, I have no hard feelings towards ANC or Laura Morrison, who has been very nice to me the 2-3 times we have crossed paths. Neither do I support Cid Galindo. I just think the standard for demonization should be a bit higher than it’s been so far in this race. Maybe that’s a side effect of having been a candidate, I have sympathy for the unsympathetic. *shrug*

    With regards to my “true colors”, I don’t think my views are significantly different than when I ran for office two years ago. I still support the implementation of Envision Central Texas, the mitigation of gentrification, and the preservation of Austin’s unique character just as I did then. I just don’t see how opposing downtown or neighborhood-edge density helps achieve any of those goals.

    ps. If I held grudges against everyone who didn’t endorse my hail mary candidacy against Brewster in ‘06, I’d have died of stroke by now. Just call me “Mr. 8.5%”

    By Kedron Jerome Touvell on Jan 6, 2008

  14. I agree with Google Guy’s comment. I don’t think a developer has any place on our city council.
    I also have a question, not to be argumentative, but if Cid was the city planner (who obviously didn’t plan correctly for Austin’s growth i.e traffic congestion, blocked roadways, downtown condos everywhere you look) then why would ANYONE want him for our City Council??? Think about it, if this is how he planned for Austin Growth,
    he may need to be planning for early retirement!

    By TexasBravo on Jan 10, 2008

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