These are the Early Voting returns from the Austin Mayor and City Council and Proposition 1 elections. Elections officials released these numbers shortly after 7 p.m. More results will be posted as they are released. Mayor Steve Adler 38.53% Mike Martinez 29.62% Sheryl Cole 14.73% District 1 Ora Houston 53.58% District 2 Delia Garza 66.42% […]
Austin City Council November 2014 Elections
The November 2014 Austin City Council elections marked a shift from an all-at-large City Council to one elected based mostly on geographic districts. The city’s Mayor remains elected at-large.
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Austin’s most comprehensive list of election parties
What’s an election without post-election parties? Looking forward to them is the only way we get through the long, exhausting election season. We have included as many post-election parties here as we could find, and we welcome information on any parties that we missed. Send an email to editor@austinmonitor.com, and we will be happy to […]
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South Carolina PAC attacks Adler campaign again
The South Carolina-based political action committee that has previously attacked mayoral candidate Steve Adler in anonymous phone calls to Austin voters struck again last week, this time by mail. The labor union-backed South Forward IE PAC sent out two glossy mail pieces painting Adler, an eminent domain attorney, as a rich man who does not […]
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Ethics Commission gives candidates slap on wrist
Some City Council candidates are having trouble following Austin’s campaign finance laws. The Ethics Review Commission addressed three complaints against candidates in Districts 6, 8 and 10 Tuesday night. Each candidate admitted wrongdoing, and none of them walked away with major sanctions. After spending more than an hour discussing the complaints behind closed doors, the commission […]
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Council candidates file ‘8-day-out’ finance reports
(This story is compiled from campaign financial reports from Austin’s Office of the City Clerk as reported by Jo Clifton, Elizabeth Pagano and Mark Richardson.) Mayor Political newcomer Steve Adler continued to raise more money than his two opponents during the past month, according to campaign financial reports filed with the City Clerk’s office Monday. […]
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Leffingwell endorses Adler in mayor’s race
After voting, Mayor Lee Leffingwell walked out of City Hall on Monday and announced to the media that he was proud to have voted for mayoral candidate Steve Adler, who is running against Leffingwell’s Council colleagues Mike Martinez and Sheryl Cole. Leffingwell had previously been officially neutral. But Monday he said he didn’t make the […]
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Early voting patterns hard to figure in new districts
Political observers have been watching early voting this past week with an eye toward what the voting patterns may mean for Austin’s first election of a City Council with single-member districts. Because of the new 10-1 Council, prognosticators find themselves in uncharted territory as far as using early ballots as a bellwether for what will […]
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Austin Monitor Radio Show 21
Austin Chronicle news editor Michael King joins Monitor editor Liz Pagano to talk Austin City Council elections. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173635343″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]
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Mayor’s race turns ugly with labor PAC attack
Austin City Council politics has hit the big time, with an out-of-state political action committee making numerous negative phone calls into the city to lambaste mayoral candidate Steve Adler. This reporter received one of those calls Thursday afternoon from a man with a Southern accent who refused to say where he was or give the […]
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Austin Tea Party ‘endorsement’ raises questions
Though early voting started on Monday, the race to City Council hasn’t come to a halt. Over the weekend, an endorsement from the Austin Tea Party had District 4 candidate Greg Casar crying foul and issuing allegations that the whole thing was a stunt to help his opponent win. The Austin Tea Party sent out […]
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Five seats open on Austin School District board
The Austin Independent School District has seen some tough times over past years, and it does not look like things are going to get better anytime soon. Earlier this year, Superintendent Meria Carstarphen resigned to take the superintendent’s job in Atlanta. District officials are predicting a precipitous drop in AISD’s student population in the next […]
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Ballot Boxing: The Mayoral Forum
Below is the (belatedly posted) video from the Ballot Boxing mayoral forum, courtesy of our partners at KXAN.