It has begun.
Next spring’s City Council elections may be months away, but seemingly in lockstep, candidates are declaring, divulging, announcing, initiating, kicking-off, trumpeting and otherwise pimping/whoring their campaigns in advance of the forthcoming football-and-tryptophan-fueled short Thanksgiving week. Turkey table talk and all that, we suppose.
Randi Shade had her kickoff yesterday, at, imaginatively enough, Nuevo Leon. The Place 3 contender gunning for Jennifer Kim has come out blazing, already dogging the incumbent over her airport fracas from earlier this year. Yes, it’s going to be an indeterminably long campaign season, isn’t it? Kim issued a press release announcing her re-election intentions, with former Council Member Brigid Shea singing her praises.
With Betty Dunkerley retiring, the field for her Place 4 seat is growing crowded. Barton Springs roustabout Robin Cravey is hosting a petition-drive kickoff at Threadgill’s World HQ, 5:30pm tonight. We’ll say Cravey’s winning for most Web 2.0 campaign site so far (i.e., big block Helvetica letters. Modern!). Not to be outdone, former African National Congress President Laura Morrison is hosting her own Place 4 campaign kickoff … at Threadgill’s World HQ, 5:30pm tomorrow. (We know the “one-of-us … one-of-us” Freaks chant of bourgeoisie Austin liberalism is an alluring song, but seriously: What is with these people? You’d think there are only two restaurants in all of Austin.)
This article appears in November 9 • 2007.