JUDGE RULES AGAINSTMCCRACKEN AND OTHER WEASLES!
State District Judge Stephen Yelenosky ordered Austin city council to rewrite two citizen-initiated charter amendments (Open Government and Clean Water amendments)
Judge found ballot language created by Brewster McCracken and other council members to be misleading, biased and written to sway voters to reject the measures.
Brewster McCracken and other council members are not interested in Prop 1, Open Government, since it would make their back room deals with special interests - public. Nor do they want Prop 2, which prohibits corporate welfare subsidies for development over the aquifer and prioritizes investments in preferred growth areas.
The Judge found problems with the use of specific examples that are "exclusively negative" as well as the inclusion of uncertain cost estimates and the mention of a tax increase that the city's lawyer conceded may not be necessary. The council has until 5 p.m. Monday to craft new language.
Read the Statesman article, click here:
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/03/31ballot.html
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City of Austin spanked over misleading ballot language
1 comment:
This from Karin:
One very specific point is that the City cannot include in the ballot language that the open government measure would require a tax increase, as they have
admitted that this is not the case.
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