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Old 06-22-2011, 12:44 PM
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Great. Now they'll make this a political issue.
Hope it passes. Guess we'll know after tomorrow.
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Lawsuit Filed to Block State Funding for F1
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/conte...=breaking_news

However

Tovo will not be sworn in until June 28th.

.......Thursday will be Shade's last council meeting. Tovo will be sworn in June 28 , along with Council Members Laura Morrison and Chris Riley , who won second terms in May .

However if they don't get F1 through tomorrow -- or if they decide to bring it up post Shade:

http://www.politifact.com/texas/stat...may-vote-subs/

It looks to be an uphill battle.

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Leave it to politicians to fock something up. I don't even know how it surprises anyone.
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Surprised Frank isnt here doing the I told You so dance...
Hope it all works out! WOuld love to run there...
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Originally Posted by txhokie4life
Lawsuit Filed to Block State Funding for F1
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/conte...=breaking_news

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That statesman link has a comments section. Those people in Austin are really really irritating. Some of those ignorant comments got my blood boiling.
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Originally Posted by BC
That statesman link has a comments section. Those people in Austin are really really irritating.
Most of them came from California.
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^Yup.
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Gee isn't this a surprise.....

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/...1-1556208.html
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Who is this bitch? maybe we should pull a "Godfather" move on her (you know, as in her waking up next to the severed head of her horse or something).
Just sayin'...

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they need to quickly announce that they will put in a practice field for the UT football team, done and done
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Anybody knows how this panned out?
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Originally Posted by jbossolo
Anybody knows how this panned out?
Yes. there were about 300 of us there & signed up to speak. Of those, about 260 were in favor of them voting Yes.

So they punted & put off the vote until next week. In tat time, a new council member who is vehemently opposed to anything automotive (except for her own cars) will be sworn in.

Bottom line: it was a waste of an afternoon.
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Originally Posted by Veloce Raptor
Yes. there were about 300 of us there & signed up to speak. Of those, about 260 were in favor of them voting Yes.

So they punted & put off the vote until next week. In tat time, a new council member who is vehemently opposed to anything automotive (except for her own cars) will be sworn in.

Bottom line: it was a waste of an afternoon.
Welcome to the world of public building projects....
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Originally Posted by Veloce Raptor
Yes. there were about 300 of us there & signed up to speak. Of those, about 260 were in favor of them voting Yes.

So they punted & put off the vote until next week. In tat time, a new council member who is vehemently opposed to anything automotive (except for her own cars) will be sworn in.

Bottom line: it was a waste of an afternoon.
This sort of listless, do nothing malaise of government seems to be from top to bottom. We have a president all the way down to a mid-sized city council doing exactly the same thing- which is essentially, nothing good.

I wonder why that is. Its both "sides" of the isle too. It has to be more than just about these slugs and leaches keeping their "jobs"
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Our mayor was the only one who opposed the delay. He correctly said "We have examined this for a long period of time, it is a huge gift offered to the City of Austin and to risk losing it is something that I'm not willing to do,"


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