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Offline PeteS in CA

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Republican Mackenzie Kelly Wins Austin City Council Runoff. Local Paper Declines to Cover It
« on: December 16, 2020, 08:15:47 pm »
Republican Mackenzie Kelly Wins Austin City Council Runoff. Local Paper Declines to Cover It

https://pjmedia.com/election/bryan-preston/2020/12/16/republican-mackenzie-kelly-wins-austin-city-council-runoff-local-paper-declines-to-cover-it-n1215133

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In a stunning upset, Republican Mackenzie Kelly defeated Democrat incumbent Jimmy Flannigan in Austin’s District 6 runoff Tuesday. Kelly ran on a platform that includes restoring police department funding and ending the city’s permissive homeless camping ordinance. She won with 52% to Flannigan’s 48%, a margin of just about 700 votes overall.

Kelly’s win, and Republican Jennifer Virden’s near-win in District 10, may signal a major shift in Austin voters’ thinking. The Democrat-dominated city was already up in arms over the homeless camping ordinance, which allows homeless people to camp just about anywhere they want all over the city ... . That has led to encampments under overpasses and even on the fringes of neighborhoods all over Austin. Those camps are unsanitary and unsafe; one of them recently burned.

Then the pandemic struck, and Mayor Steve Adler took an authoritarian approach that has, among other things, badly damaged the city’s once-vibrant live music scene (and his own credibility). ...

Then the riots struck, and the Austin city council sprinted without thinking at all toward defunding its already short-staffed police department. The city council sliced about $140 to $150 million, about a third, from that budget. ...
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Update: The AAS posted a story on it at 9:40 AM. The result was known more than 12 hours prior.

Less crazed district? Or have Prog "leaders" reached the limits of residents' Prog'ism?
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Re: Republican Mackenzie Kelly Wins Austin City Council Runoff. Local Paper Declines to Cover It
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2020, 10:21:27 pm »
The district that Kelly won includes the part of Austin that slops over into Williamson county, which is still much more conservative than Travis county. That explains her win as much as anything.

Also, the other City Council runoff race held yesterday was won by the lefty incumbent, so it doesn't really look like there has been any seismic shift in Austin politics. At best it will be 10-1 for the lefties, instead of 11-0.
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