Austin City Council member sounds alarm on 'disastrous consequences' of defunding police | Fox News Hard to believe that this could happen in Texas. Have the liberals gone totally berserk in Austin?
Austin is fast becoming a large, steaming ********. So glad I left 21 years ago. With that said, Portland, Seattle, and Minneapolis have a big head start on steaming shitholeishness.
Chit, I left Austin but still have a house there that I have been renting. Now I just updated it and the plan was to establish residency and sell. I am currently living in a house in Lake Jackson that I would sell first then move back to Austin.
You could see this coming in the mid 90s. Our capital city doesn't even seem like it's a part of Texas anymore. Haven’t spent a whole lot of time there since 2005 ish
It's all the city council who has gotten way out of control. I have to say the people of Austin, who of course voted the city council into office, rose up against them to get the petition on the last ballot to make camping in public areas illegal again. There are currently about half as many homeless on the sidewalks as there were 30 days ago and its getting smaller. Voters are just too stupid and afraid to vote for anyone else so the same wing nuts keep being voted in.
Great question HHD. I cannot imagine how that limit has not been reached. I recollect thinking when I returned for first home game that the tents seemed less on Riverside than this summer but as I drove further I saw it was just less in the eastern portion, not gone just less, but further I went the more they were. And it’s an entire community, not just a few scattered. There may be fewer under I35 overpasses but not by a lot. Bad look on city.
As politically divided as this country has become, I can't imagine anything that would cause them to vote differently. It would take 3 or 4 moderate democrats to win at the same time to make a difference here.
I don't think the voters have all that much ability to change it. The candidates put forward are all Progressive. You may vote out one Progressive, but those pulling the levers will bring out the next one from the conveyor belt.
Agree Mona, plus my cynicism believes that they’ll tell you whatever to get elected then the ‘power’ greed takes ahold and they go total rogue. If they stay in long enough they learn all the tricks and belong to the lobbyists who promise (and deliver) the moon.
The influences once a person gets into the council is a problem. Another one is that in local elections the candidates don't tell you what they believe or what policy they will push for. All the rhetoric is about how they want a prosperous and safe city. The money in Austin will pick and advertise for those they want and they are never that concerned about the middle or working class getting help.
The Austin we all really loved died when they plowed over Liberty Lunch to build a new City Hall and moved the entertainment away from 6th Street...and then the Californians came in and insisted on noise ordinances because they didn't do their due diligence before buying downtown sight unseen...
There IS some hope though...I mean, after all...Prop B passed and they finally bulldozed an Adler-town the other day. It may just be clean-up in advance of one of the festivals, but Prop B was ONLY Austin voters, not the surrounding areas of Travis County.
Yes. I think when things get totally out of control citizens stand up. My hope is that citizens are sensitized to the need to stand up. My fear is that the overlords are strategizing how to make that void.
Mackenzie Kelly is the only Republican on the Austin City Council. All other nine council members would probably state how well the police cuts have helped the city.
That's the issue. The city council and mayor aren't going to say things are bad. The Austin American Stateman and the Texas Tribune will say whatever the Progressives want them to say. I don't think the voters have an idea about what is really going on. The candidates themselves aren't honest when campaigning, even new ones. You never really know what kind of policy they plan to implement.
I blame the old school LBJ loving types. The old money liberals covering for the new progressive generation who want to blow up Western Civ. If the old money and media would just be honest about what policies they are pushing voters could make an informed decision.
You should have seen The Drag back in ‘69. Hippy vendors lined the street in the blocks across from the campus thick as fleas, which I’m sure lots of them had. Meanwhile, across the street, in front of the Student Union, Black Panthers, SDS, and tons of other groups aggressively panhandled for money. I’d walk way out of my way to avoid that area.
I can't figure out why the City is allowing the dregs of society to inhabit the city streets and campout in the downtown area. It's not good for folks coming in for sporting events or for business. This situation will also damage the city's tax revenues once tourism drops off and businesses close up and move out. There's also the costs associated with the cleanup of the messes these folks make. That's based on info from guys who go downtown for business reasons.
If anyone hasnt driven down riverside drive lately you will be amazed by how much better it looks. They finally cleared out the refugee camps all in the medians and it is glorious.
Every single tent I used to endure on my way to work is now gone. I'm starting to see green grass again instead of piles of trash and tents.
Wow, I can verify Riverside cleared out!!! Even the overpasses on way to MLK are clear. Amazing. Someone up for election?
The people of Austin started a petition to reinstate the ban on camping in public places. It got enough signatures to be put on the last election ballot then the people of Austin resoundingly voted for it. The city council members were pissed.