Monday, April 24, 2023

Austin-area Conservative Voter Guide: May 2023 Local Elections



Early voting polls opened this morning at 7 a.m. in the May 2023 local elections. From police accountability, to school bonds, to local board and council candidates, to the creation of new taxing districts, this will be a critical election in some places within Travis County, but in other places there may be nothing on the ballot.

To find out what's on your ballot, see if you're registered to vote, check out a map of voting locations with wait times, and more visit www.VoteTravis.com.

Below are our recommendations (updated as of 4/24/23). Special thanks to the members of the Travis County Republicans Facebook Group for their insight. If you have any suggestions of your own please feel free to use the comments or weigh-in at the link above. Please note: multiple endorsements may be included in each race.

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Cutting through the hype in Austin's Prop A versus Prop B election

When cornered and left without much in the way of reasonable argument on any given ballot issue, radical Progressives in Austin will almost always resort to blaming conservatives.

Such has been the case with Proposition A versus Proposition B, appearing on the May local election ballot starting Monday, April 24, 2023.

The unsubstantiated rumor going around is that those dastardly Republicans, independent conservatives, assorted Libertarians, and any number of right-leaning rabble-rousers are behind Proposition B as a sinister means to derail Proposition A and any attempt to provide oversight of law enforcement and achieve racial justice within the capital city. And how dare they!

Saturday, April 1, 2023

City of Austin cancels April Fool's Day

Austin no longer pities the fool

In an unexpected announcement, the City of Austin said it will no longer recognize April Fool's Day as an official city holiday and urges all residents to refrain from celebrating the occasion, mocking the city, or visiting comedy clubs that have a history of exposing the ignorance of local leadership.

Former Austin Mayor Steve Adler, in one of his final directives before leaving office in December, created the Federation for Austin's Reputation and Trustworthiness in order to study and empirically measure how seriously people are taking radical new changes in local policy.