For mayoral contender David Buttross, there’s still solace to be found in his election loss Saturday where he garnered 3.84% of the vote: the next day, his wife Betsy gave birth to a one Joseph Tyre Buttross, clocking in at 7 pounds, 21 inches.
“We thought he was going to make it on election day but he must have seen the results and decided to wait to make his appearance in Austin,” cracks Buttross in the press release pasted below.
Buttross: The courage to bring about change. And babies, apparently.
Buttross press release:
NEW BUTTROSS BABY GETS A NICKNAME – MAYOR
Former Austin mayoral candidate David Buttross and his wife Betsy became parents of their second child on Sunday.
Joseph Tyre Buttross weighed in at 7 pounds and was 21 inches long.
“It was great for my wife that he was born on Mother’s Day,” said an elated David Buttross. “We thought he was going to make it on election day but he must have seen the results and decided to wait to make his appearance in Austin.”
Buttross, a real estate investor making his first run for office this year, finished fourth in a five person mayor’s race in the city. The family thought that Joseph was going to be born on Saturday and Buttross kept his cell phone close at hand while he made the rounds of voting locations to campaign.
Joseph joins a ten-month-old brother David who his father calls “Buddy.”
“Joseph didn’t quite make it on May 9th,” Buttross said. “But we’re still going to call him Mayor. I’ve already got a voter registration application ready for his 18th birthday. He may decide he wants to run for office. Even if he doesn’t we’ll always have a Mayor living in our house.”
This article appears in May 8 • 2009.