April 02, 2005
UDs / CAD Endorse
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
Well today's 4 hour long endorsement meeting was fun. I'll cut to the chase and let you know the results.
Both the Univerisity Democrats and Central Austin Democrats endorsed Lee Leffingwell in Place 1, Betty Dunkerly in Place 4, and YES votes on the proposed Smoking Ban and ACC District Annexation.
CAD went to a run-off in Place 3 between Margot Clarke and Gregg Knaupe and endorsed Margot Clarke, though that wasn't a big suprise. UDems went to a run-off between Margot Clarke and Mandy Dealey and endorsed Mandy Dealey. A lot of people's votes shifted very late in UDems, for a variety of reasons, towards Dealey, and the runoff was not one decided by just a couple votes or anything.
Of course, I'm not allowed to release the vote totals of any of the balloting because UDems has this informal agreement of not allowing it, which is no where in the constitution and when push comes to shove, I'm sure could be a FOIA issue or something that probably is a tad illegal if anyone really cared. I might draw up some language to clarify it in the constitution to all the numbers to be public later on since it's always bugged me.
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at April 2, 2005 09:00 PM
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Oops, sorry, didn't notice the post down below.
wow, that's the second time we've split with CAD on endorsing Margot Clarke. Not that I mind or anything, just making an observation. I remember that two years ago (during the "LaMasters Administration") we endorsed Brewster McCracken for City Council Place 5 while CAD endorsed Margot Clarke.
btw, I e-mailed Marcus on Friday morning asking if I could vote absentee in the endorsement meeting and got no response. not that my vote would've really swayed anything since as of right now I support Jennifer Kim.
Sal,
I am with you!!
I thought that Knaupe was an interesting candidate in the beginning. He has been a huge flipflop.
I am supporting Kim also. She may be young but so is McCracken.
S
I still remember the McCracken/Clarke endorsement, and the days leading up to it. Same thing--Margot got the CAD endorsement, and Brewster got the UDem endorsement.
