Oops!
Fri., Oct. 7, 2011
In "Point Austin" last week, Michael King mistakenly reported that a charter amendment petition requires "5% of the previous record vote" to be placed on that ballot. In fact, the petition standard is 5% of registered voters, and the passage has been corrected online to read: "Worse, the substance of the charter has been steadily undermined in recent years by quixotic petition campaigns. Since it takes only 5% of the registered voters to submit charter-revision petitions (compared to 10% for a new ordinance), political hobbyists of all stripes have an easy detour around substantive organizing or even voter mobilization."
Last week's "Civics 101" contained the wrong date for an Equal Justice Center fundraiser, which took place last Thursday (Sept. 29).
