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Preston Maness ☭

@effaustin >"Given concerns expressed today, I have decided to withdraw this item from the agenda at this time to provide more opportunities to address council members’ questions and do our due diligence to alleviate concerns prior to bringing this item back to City Council for consideration," Broadnax said in his message to the Mayor and Council.
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>Broadnax's decision essentially means Austin's ALPR program will end on June 30.

Don't celebrate just yet. They've got the rest of the month for y'all to lose interest and bring the item back later. Expect APD to piss and moan and for the more liberal CMs to hem and haw before voting to extend the contract.

#alpr#atx#AustinTX
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Preston Maness ☭

austinchronicle.com/arts/2025-

On the one hand, as the article's body mentions: "better late than never." On the other, as the article's title insinuates: the horse has left the barn. Decades of trading on Austin's "weird" reputation, whilst pandering near-exclusively to capital, has left Austin's cultural core genuinely penurious, hallowed out, and fleeing for higher ground. Same as it ever was.

www.austinchronicle.comIs Austin’s New Arts Umbrella Organization Just in Time or Too Little, Too Late?After two decades of treating culture and creativity as an afterthought, the city of Austin finally has a real arts department
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@oconnell

>Ground Game Texas, the organization that helped get marijuana decriminalization on the ballot in Austin, San Marcos and other places throughout the state, said in a statement it will continue to "craft policies that respond to [the court's] ruling."
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>"These decisions don't change the fact that the people of Austin and San Marcos spoke with one voice," executive director Catina Voellinger said. "It doesn't change the fact that for years, the ordinance protected residents from arrest and criminalization over low-level possession. And it definitely doesn't change our commitment to this fight."

Catina Voellinger? I recognize that name! If she's still fighting, then #austin #atx should absolutely stand along side her to ensure that APD continues to deprioritize marijuana "crimes," if nothing else. I'm not convinced that trying to play "by the book" with the very state apparatus that writes the book is a worthwhile strategy though. Grassroots organization in #texas is the same story, consistently, over decades: local victories, overruled by the state. The grassroots needs to aim higher than putzing about locally or tailing the Democrats. It needs to build its own party to seize state power.

#txlege#txpol#thc
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Preston Maness ☭

An excellent interview conducted between Maggie Quinlan Thompson of the Austin Chronicle and Texas state senator Sarah Eckhardt, who represents the Austin area:

austinchronicle.com/news/2025-

The entire interview does an *excellent* job of interjecting important bits of context when needed. That is a breath of fresh air compared to raw dumps of dialog that assume every reader/listener is just as wired in to said context as the writers/speakers.

As well, one point in particular makes a very concise and convincing case against bad political theatre, likening it, across several important political axes, to nutritionally barren candy:

>**Chronicle**: *You were talking about political pragmatism, which could be thought of as political performance. Before you were an attorney, you studied arts and performed in theatre productions. We have this phrase “political theatre,” which implies something nefarious, but in a pure sense of what theatre is, is there artistry in the work of being a lawmaker?*
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>*Eckhardt*: As a public servant you have to tell the story outside the building, so I don’t consider political theatre a bad thing. I think you need to be sufficiently theatrical, a sufficient storyteller, so that your community knows what their government is up to.
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>There are also posturing bills. These are examples of really bad theatre. It’s candy politics. It has no nutritional value. It doesn’t increase your public safety. It doesn’t increase your prosperity. It doesn’t improve your health care. It doesn’t reduce the price of groceries. It’s purely about looking good and doesn’t do any good.

Finally, another salient piece of advice regarding the intersection of ego and politics:

>**Chronicle**: *Do you feel genuine partnership and teamwork with many or any of your Republican colleagues?*
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>**Eckhardt**: One way I can get policy passed is by quietly talking to my Republican colleagues and acting like a superstaffer saying, “Hey, I read your bill. I think it’s really, really good. I can’t vote for it yet. Here are a couple of things that would improve it, that would make it possible for me to vote for it.”
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>Another way I can influence policy is I can propose a bill and file it and then float it to see how many Republicans I can get to co-author, and if I can’t get any to co-author, but one of them says, “I really like this bill, but politically, I can’t be seen on a bill with you.” I’ll say: “file the identical bill, and I’ll co-author yours. Take my bill. Cool.” You can get a lot more done if you don’t need your name on it.

You can get a lot more done if you don’t need your name on it.

You can get a lot more done if you don’t need your name on it.

You can get a lot more done if you don’t need your name on it.

www.austinchronicle.comSitting Down With Your SenatorSarah Eckhardt goes deep on democracy, womanhood, and our era
#atx#txpol#txlege
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