Lee Leffingwell, Jennifer Kim and Cid Galindo Lead April Fundraising

Galindo's spending (0.00 / 0)

I don't think I've gotten a mailer from him yet and haven't seen a commercial - whereas I've had to suffer through Morrison's awful load of crap several times now. Is he only spending on news 8 or what? (Seems like a bad idea if so).

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by: m1ek @ Sat May 03, 2008 at 17:39:57 PM UTC

I've seen it... (0.00 / 0)

on a couple of the cable outlets which makes me wonder if maybe he bought the package that targets the "gay men with esoteric taste in TV who drink A LOT" demo.

I haven't seen any of Morrison's. I have seen Lee's and it's well done.

You REALLY don't like Laura, do you? I think it's kind of cute in an elementary school crush kind of way.

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by: McBlogger @ Sat May 03, 2008 at 20:33:39 PM UTC

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Me and Laura-poo (0.00 / 0)

1. I spent a year or so of my life working on the OWANA neighborhood plan - my part relatively minor (transportation), but watching the hard work of the guys who made the zoning/land use stuff really responsible, requiring quite a lot of education and sales on their part. She got involved in the leadership of the neighborhood after it was passed and has since almost single-handedly destroyed the hard-earned political capital the neighborhood gained by being responsible with our plan. Things like opposing Spring, even though DANA strongly supported it and it matches the expressed city goals. But that's just one of five or ten similar efforts - and now, city council won't even listen to OWANA.

2. McMansion. I live on 6000 square feet and want to someday put up a second story and a garage apartment on the footprint of my 1250 sqft house and 400 sqft garage, respectively. She, living in a $1.5 million huge old house, thinks I oughtn't be allowed to; I should instead have just married into old professor wealth like she did, I suppose, and been able to afford a large lot and/or huge mansion and/or grandfathered house instead of buying in and expanding later. She dressed all this up in a complete lie about affordable housing - fewer new and existing garage apartments and duplexes means central Austin becomes even LESS affordable. She and others dress it up in bullshit about spec houses too - ignoring the fact that what I'd like to have done is pretty much what the neighborhood has built out at already (most homes on my block already have 2 or more dwelling units and FARs that are pushing it or over; it's the common pattern for maintaining the ability for a family to stay here - rather than her lies about speculative teardowns and the like).

That ought to be enough. But I'm sure she's going to piss me off about rail, too, given that she's Old Money and is close enough to drive everywhere anyways (and, of course, the idle rich who doesn't have to hold down a real job which requires commuting during rush hours).

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by: m1ek @ Sat May 03, 2008 at 21:41:00 PM UTC

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most surprising for me... (0.00 / 0)

is Laura Morrison's...I really thought she'd raise more than she has.  I guess you can argue she's splitting the liberal dollar with Cravey.  I'd estimate $114k is equal to about $60k under the old rules of $100 per donation (being to lazy to actually do the calculation).

Everything else was pretty much predictable, including Meeker's implosion which I think most of us did predict.

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by: Kedron Touvell @ Sat May 03, 2008 at 22:14:55 PM UTC

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read that too fast, that's Laura's total expenditures.  Quick back of the brain calculation from the city clerk's site has her at about $101,000 raised, $40,000 loaned.  So, slightly worse than $114k raised.

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by: Kedron Touvell @ Sat May 03, 2008 at 22:21:52 PM UTC

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