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Election Day is Tomorrow // Blockbuster Statesman Article Shows Stunning Council Member Budget Waste // How You Can Help // Election Night Victory Party
Just a few updates today:
ELECTION DAY IS TUESDAY 7AM-7PM
If you have not voted yet, WE ABSOLUTELY NEED YOU TO VOTE TOMORROW AGAINST PROP Q.
There are 147 voting locations across Travis County and since we have countywide voting, as a City of Austin resident YOU CAN VOTE ANYWHERE and receive an Austin ballot with Prop Q at the bottom.
We updated the fabulous and informative SaveAustinNow.com website and you can enter your zip code (home or office) and it will show you the nearest election day voting locations.
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STUNNING AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN ARTICLE DETAILS ABSURD WASTE IN CITY COUNCIL MEMBER BUDGETS DURING $33M BUDGET DEFICIT
Austin American-Statesman reporter Alex Driggars has a fantastic piece of accountability journalism (which has been rare in recent years from AAS) where he details shocking, indefensible and potentially illegal uses of taxpayer money for inappropriate uses by a number of our City Council members.
Mind you, this is all happening WHILE WE HAVE A $33M budget deficit and 9/10 council members (Marc Duchen is the exception) and the Mayor VOTED TO PUT A $110M property tax increase on the 2025 ballot.
The entire story is below, with key sections in BOLD.
A tax hike for you, perks for them: Inside Austin City Council’s spending habits
Experts question why members with $898,000 budgets and six-figure salaries are donating to political causes and flying abroad on the public’s dime.
Underneath a large tree outside the city of Austin’s Parks and Recreation Department headquarters late last month, a small gaggle of reporters gathered around City Council Member Ryan Alter, who waxed poetic about the city’s greenspaces. An oversized ceremonial check with “ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND” scrawled across its face leaned against the tree’s thick trunk.
“I love our park system,” Alter said. “It’s where our kids go play, we have our birthday parties, our soccer games,
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