Burnt Orange Report

It's a Race

By Karl-Thomas Musselman

This spring I intend to try to report on 3 city council races in 3 different cities. There of course will be the Austin City Council race, place 3 especially (make sure you take the poll I set up).

In addition, my father Tom Musselman, running for city council back home in Fredericksburg, now has a challenger, one of the local "Republican Women" who we thought was going to sit it out. So if you are from Fredericksburg, or know people there, please go to the campaign blog or join the campain.

In addition, someone has filed against Jeff Ortiz out in Nederland. Jeff has made his intention to run for a seat for almost half a year now, and if elected, will be one of the youngest city council members in the state at 22. Don't let his age fool you into thinking he's not serious though, stop by his website and help him out.

If you would like to link to either of these sites or mention it on your blog, all of these campaigns, especially the non-Austin ones, would welcome it in order to raise their search rankings. My father has to compete with my own name in searches and the blogosphere's last round of linking actually directed some local supporters to the campaign. This past month he has been running radio and print advertising in Fredericksburg (at the whopping cost of $100 a week for radio) and other campaign materials are now in the production line.