Some valuable intel on the 2018 May Local Elections

Nestled between the 2018 March Primary and the May 22 Runoff is the local election -- to be held on Cinco de Mayo this year.

Voting in the Local Elections takes place on Saturday, May 5, with early voting from April 23 through May 1. More info is available at votetravis.com.

It can be hard for those who don't have their ear to the track of hyper-local politics to know how to vote, but fortunately our friends at the Travis Outrider blog have researched the political affiliations of candidates in the following Travis County local races:

CANDIDATE PARTY VOTING HISTORY:

Cedar Park 
Lakeway 
Leander
Round Rock
Pflugerville ISD 
Lake Travis ISD 

For our readers in Bee Cave and Briarcliff you're on your own for now, but we do have links to all the sample ballots here:

SAMPLE BALLOTS:

Cedar Park
Round Rock
Pflugerville
Lakeway
Briarcliff
Lake Travis ISD 

Municipal Utility Districts: 

• Cascades MUD No. 1 Directors election (2 places), 
• West Travis MUD No. 3 and No. 5 consolidation referendum, 
• River Place MUD Limited District creation referendum.

The sample ballots indicate which Travis County precincts are having elections. To find your precinct number see your voting registration card or visit www.votexas.gov.

When voting, whether or not you've done your homework, if you encounter a race or a proposition you're not sure about, follow the Travis Tracker's advice:

"When in doubt leave it blank."

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ADDITIONAL INTEL:

Tony Hanson (incumbent for Pflugerville ISD) has proven himself reasonably conservative and has the Tracker's approval.

Patrick Walz (who seems to be the ringleader of a slate of Cedar Park council candidates) is no friend of conservatives, nor civility. See screenshots below:



Recommendations from Williamson County conservative activist Don Stroud for Leander voters here.


Last updated: 1:05 p.m. 4/26

Yeti's anti-conservative stance is nothing new

Gun rights supporters are furious today that a company so linked to the outdoors lifestyle has apparently cut ties with the NRA Foundation. We include Yeti's statement above, which denies any such cancellation, and that it was only the termination of an older discount program.

However it has become apparent that Austin-based Yeti is prone to knee-jerk reactions to liberal protests. See this Aug. 22, 2017, Tracker article on Yeti's pulling its Facebook ads from conservative news service Breitbart. A Twitter screenshot from the article is below:

Whether or not Yeti is home to anti-gun bigots, the fact remains that it does have a hard left orientation that consumers should consider when shopping for insulated containers.

Is Governor Abbott 'more powerful than Putin?' Economically it would seem so

"Texas' economy is larger than Russia -- That makes me more powerful than Putin," Gov. Greg Abbott crowed at the 2018 Travis County Republican Party Reagan Gala on April 13.

Abbott was the keynote speaker at the annual event, which this year honored Travis County Precinct 3 Commissioner Gerald Daugherty and outgoing U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith. Abbott's comment raised some eyebrows as well as the applause level in the historic Driskill Hotel that evening.

How true is the Governor's statement? Is it even close? Here's an interesting analysis:

http://www.talkmarkets.com/content/us-markets/which-has-the-bigger-economy-texas-or-russia?post=173072