(Community Matters)
Today is City Council election day. Polls opened at 7am. Please vote to reelect Randi Shade.
When I spoke to judges on the last day of early voting – their turnout had been very low. Turnout will likely be less than 7% of eligible voters. As we’ve recently been reminded in Donna Howard’s race (which she won by 4 votes) every vote counts.
Why Randi? She’s the best. Seriously, the former UT Student Body President, Harvard Business School grad, high-tech startup entrepreneur, wife, and mom of two young children weighs all perspectives & opinions and makes her decisions based on what’s best for Austin’s long term interests balanced with today’s needs. Randi (and her wife, Dell executive Kayla Shell) is active in their Clarksville neighborhood association and she’s first-hand aware of the need to balance neighborhood and economic development interests. I was especially proud of the balance she struck in supporting the water treatment plant which ensures adequate drinking water for our next 50 years – she simultaneously required substantive progress, metrics and timelines for enhanced water conservation plans.
Community Matters 