Archive for the ‘City Council’ Category
Monday, April 28th, 2008
As early voting in the May 10 Austin city council races gets underway, the main candidates in Place 1 are crowding out the local airwaves. Uncle Lee Leffingwell, 67, goes after whispers that he’s too old or somehow lacking in the energy required to sit on the dais for ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Democrats around the country are clamoring for change in a heated presidential campaign. But as the endorsement rounds for the May city council races come to a close back here in Austin, the message is more of the same.
Place 1 incumbent Lee Leffingwell has all the establishment support in ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Will OneToughGrandmaCarolKeetonMclellanRylanderStrayhorn really run for mayor of Austin?
Considering the rest of the potential field, we say go for it. Heck, she has more charisma and leadership in a single cackle than Leffingwell's entire tenure and would be a lot more fun than Punky Brewster. We think this could turn ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Austin Mayor Will Wynn said yesterday that he won’t be supporting a ballot initiative this year on single-member districts, after sitting on the fence for months. As the swing vote, Wynn’s public pronouncement effectively kills the stop-start effort, which has has had trouble finding a vocal proponent beyond council ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
The betting is it might be Councilman Lee Leffingwell, who has decided to vocally oppose the Villa Muse project along with its purported 40,000 new jobs, not to mention the new taxes destined for Del Valle schools and ACC Wynn support.
Wynn, in trouble again for his quick temper, has been ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Jason Meeker's campaign consultants sent out a media advisory today announcing a press conference tomorrow to officially get into the race against Lee Leffingwell. Unsurprisingly, he is holding it across from his Alamo Northcross Mall.
InFact Daily reported today that Meeker is using Brewster's guys to run his race. So ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Looks like we will get to find out soon enough.
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
The Chronicle does a pretty good job this week of covering lots of the action.
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Today’s joint endorsement by Austin’s three leading public safety associations could alter the political landscape of the May city council elections, giving Lee Leffingwell, Randi Shade, and Cid Galindo a leg up over their opponents.
The Austin Police Association, Austin Fire Fighters, and Austin-Travis County EMS workers put aside their usual ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
We got Allen Demling's press release announcing that he was running for council but thought it was a joke. We don't do follow up calls because news comes to us. But The Man ran with it, so it must be real.
We don't send crews out in vans to ...
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
We were out doing yard work and enjoying this stellar Austin day when we met this guy block walking. He is an incredibly nice man, full of hope and optimism. Yeah, the website will illicit a few chuckles, but have things gotten so bad that only a jaded ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Austin will have its first African American city manager when Toby Futrell leaves in May — Marc Ott, currently an assistant city manager in Fort Worth.
Ott and San Antonio assistant city manager Jelynne Burley were the last two candidates still in the running for the job after a quick ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Austin City Councilman Uncle Lee Leffingwell’s campaign kicks off Tuesday evening at Nuevo Leon Restaurant on East 6th. No word yet on whether this party is for his re-election race this May, his already-announced mayoral campaign next year or both.
Political observers are wondering if the 5:30 p.m. start time ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Never ones to let potential charges of hypocrisy steer them away from a good rhetorical attack, local Republican leaders have submitted three initiatives for their primary ballot in Travis County.
One targets the issue dujour, of course, calling on federal, state, and even local to “enforce U.S. immigration laws...” Look ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
As the local newspaper editorializes against what it calls the “secretive search” for a replacement for soon-to-retire Austin City Manager Toby Futrell, new details are leaking out about how the choice came down to the current candidates — which don’t include longtime Futrell deputy Laura Huffman.
Huffman reportedly had the four ...
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