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Update, Tuesday, Oct. 26 – Steve Harvey informs that the Open San Marcos Wednesday meeting will NOT be held at the Tap Room (last minute change). Please call Mr. Harvey at 512.557.1298 for the rescheduled meeting location.
Note: Early voting locations today, Monday Oct. 25: Woodcreek City Hall (10 am-8 pm), Kyle City Hall (10 am-8 pm), San Marcos City Library (7 am-7 pm) and County Elections Office, San Marcos (7 am-7 pm). See the complete list of early voting locations and times at the Hays County Elections Office website.
Open San Marcos, a non-profit organization, is relatively new on the political scene in Hays County. They don't take sides in elections and they don't publish investigative stories or commentary. Co-founder Steve Harvey says what they are doing is promoting open and accessible local government with a focus, now at least, on the City Council and City of San Marcos.
From their website: "Our driving mission is to help foster open government processes, supervised by an informed and engaged citizenry, which is the cornerstone of democracy."
The group has published a voters guide for the San Marcos mayoral race and three city council seats. See it on their website, which includes a discussion forum page with more details on recent activities.
They have a workshop scheduled Wednesday, Oct. 27, 6:30-8 p.m., at The Tap Room. The workshop is on the "3rd initiative" of the "First Ten," calling on the city council to adopt a resolution "for open government that articulates appropriate basic principles."
Contact Mr. Harvey at this address: steve.harvey@opensanmarcos.org
The Place 1 City Council race between Dave Newman and Kim Porterfield is attracting some attention outside the San Marcos area because of some of Ms. Porterfield's affiliations. She is the wife of Winton Porterfield of the Wimberley Springs development group.
Some of Porterfield's contributors, through the July 1-September 23 contributions reporting period, include:
Randall Morris, San Marcos (real estate broker)
Jim Powers (former Hays County judge; on Board of Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority, which is currently trying to get approval to pump water from aquifers in Bastrop & Lee counties and pipe it to San Antonio – an action those counties are protesting)
Thomas Loomis, Austin (of Loomis Engineering)
Halff Associates, Richardson, TX (engineers)
Rebecca Conley, San Marcos
For a look at Mr. Newman's contributors and all the candidates' campaign finance reports, click on this link to the city's website.
For a look at Mr. Newman's contributors and all the candidates' campaign finance reports, click on this link to the city's website.
2 comments:
In the spirit of open reporting, Bob O. why don't you list the contributors for Mr. Newman and all the candidates, besides Mrs. Porterfield? The only thing that is transparent in your reporting is your obvious bias.
The city's website has the campaign finance reports for all the candidates. The link is included in the story. Thanks.
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