Mayoral candidates in bed together?

[Lithos]

http://austin.metblogs.com/2009/02/15/mayoral-candidates-in-bed-together/

The Chronicle has a good summary of the Austin mayoral candidates and their cover pitches it as a “Municipal Death Match”.

However, last Thursdays council meeting where the Wildflower Commons PUD was up for discussion, debate and possibly vote, rather than it being a death match with Leffingwell taking one position, and McCracken taking the opposite, it was more like John and Yokos love-in, except the protest was from the public, not the lovers.

I arrived at City Hall around 4pm, listened to some of the heated discussion on the East Austin Solar farm, then the Town Lake trail extension and boardwalk. After 2-hours I left, there were a large number of people milling around, more than 90-had signed up to speak on the PUD. I got back later, but no debate, no discussion, just a postponment, apperently with the prior agreement of the developers lobbyist.

More for the Austin crowd. I'm trying to get a handle on the Austin Mayoral election coming up. The two candidates under consideration are Leffingwell and MCracken as obviously Carol *Name of the week* is really not someone I'd vote for.

I'm guessing the chronicle article they are referencing is this one.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:740049

[sonias]

1. Typical political behavior

No council member running for reelection or election as Mayor would take a vote so close to an election that might be considered controversial. I bet they have an agreement (unwritten of course) to do that.

Your link has gone bad. Here's the story Municipal Death Match!

Sonia

[Baby Snooks]

2. So what do you do?

I suppose we could try to voluntarily govern ourselves although I suspect that would be worse. Particularly in Texas. We would most likely shoot each other within a week.

A great-uncle who was my surrogate grandfather used to say there were two types of people that you just simply didn't have at the dinner table. Preachers and politicians. As I've grown older I've begun to realize the wisdom of my great-uncle.

It's just as bad in Houston. Among other things some of the same supporters are on the list of supporters for both Annise Parker and Peter Brown.