Looks like we might need to recalibrate the Strayhorn Mayoral Declaration Alert System: Minutes after our previous dispatch, Harvey Kronberg’s Quorum Report put up the following headline:

STRAYHORN DESIGNATES TREASURER; FILES PAPERWORK TO RUN FOR AUSTIN MAYOR

Former Council member Louise Epstein to serve as treasurer.

Alert status: Red, or severe risk of mayoral announcement.

This article appears in November 7 • 2008.

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