Amid scenes of citizens forced out of their homes, iconic businesses shuttering from suffocating taxes, uncontrolled homelessness scattering across town, intensifying lawlessness spreading on the streets, and defunded police officers leaving their jobs, some citizens are now arising to take city hall back from the all-Democrat Austin City Council who helped create the current reality in Texas' capital.
On taxes alone, the council wants to take over $500 more cash from the median homeowner next year-despite being in a time when over 130,000 Austinites recently lost their jobs because of government shutdowns, despite already taking 100 percent more annually from the median homeowner compared to 12 years ago, and despite already spending roughly double the amount city officials Dallas and Houston pay out.
"Mismanagement by our current City Council is so flagrant that it's impossible to ignore it any longer," said candidate Jennifer Virden, a native Austinite running for city council's western-located district 10 seat.
"Current City Council members have completely lost our trust, our faith, and our support, and for good reason," wrote candidate Robert Thomas, an attorney also running for district 10, on his campaign website.
"If anyone for even a second thinks that these proposals are designed to save money or increase accountability, remember that Jimmy Flannigan is now proposing swinging a wrecking ball at the very heart of law and order in our city. A majority of our city wants to preserve law and order, and we can do better than Flannigan in November."
Several of the city council candidates spoke on how the Austin City Council is following the same path as far-left cities such as Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco, whose similar decisions on police, homelessness, and taxes are causing nightmares of lawlessness and unattainable costs of living, forcing citizens to flee the city.
"Let's become the city that others aspire to be - not repeat others' failed policies."
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