Daily Archives: 06/19/2008

(Community Matters) The Don Boyd sent me this link to a terrific article on Bishop Robinson in GQ. thanks Don!

Bishop Robinson and his partner, Mark Andrew

(Community Matters) Interesting

Obama: Total raised: $265mm, Cash on hand: $47mm; 42% from females, 58% from men
top states:

	California	$29,590,172	20%
	New York	$18,984,635	13%
	Illinois	$15,402,940	11%
	Massachusetts	$7,377,908	5%
	Other States	$73,507,260	51%

McCain: Total raised: $97mm, Cash on hand: $24mm; 28% from females, 72% from men
top states:

	California	$10,324,089	15%
	Texas	$6,376,825	9%
	New York	$6,323,471	9%
	Florida	$6,153,800	9%
	Other States	$38,924,534	57%

(Community Matters) After unsuccessful negotiations with Senator McCain’s campaign to exclude national party spending in the general election and discouragement of 527 campaigns, Senator Obama has announced his campaign will forgo over $80mm in public funds. Instead, he’s maintaining his prohibition on contributions from federal lobbyists and political action committees, relying on the 1.5 million Americans who contributed to his primary campaign.

(Community Matters) Kudos to Google’s Austin team who worked long and hard helping at Goodwill’s computer site. thanks to Alyson & Amanda of the Entrepreneurs Foundation for coordinating the efforts.

(Community Matters) ughhh, ST’s Paris to Newark flight delayed so he’ll miss the Newark to Austin flight which should have arrived at 5:30p. Should be on the 11:30. We have been separated way too much the last six weeks, much more apart than together. Ready for him to be home for the summer!

(Community Matters) Marion and I met this morning with Matthew Walton of Red Design, who’d been referred to us by Austin Venture’s Tom Ball. Wow, the guy speaks our language about user experience, totally immersive environments and agile development. Not hard to understand why he’s the Austin buzz in website development. Great ideas for the breast cancer portal/website.

Lunch with a group of community leaders, housing advocates, planners, developers and builders discussing Live-Work development at the Robert Mueller Development. They’re also exploring opportunities to create housing in the “gap zone,” i.e., $160k to $240k. Their affordable housing providing below $160k opportunities, which is administered by the land trust, PeopleTrust, we launched last year (a subsidiary of PeopleFund).

Well attended event including Jim Walker, Matt Whelan, Jim Walker, Mike Cook, Kelly Weiss, Ryan Keathley, Terry Mitchell, Ashton Cumberbath, Rebecca Campbell, Tom Hatch and Margo Weisz.

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