Friday's mobile voting
Here are today's mobile voting locations and times:
These are, of course,
in addition to the regular early voting locations.
Friday, May 05, 2006
- Northwest Rural Community Center
18649 FM 1431, Suite 6A Jonestown
10 am - 6 pm
- Del Valle ISD Administration Building
5301 Ross Road, Del Valle
4 pm - 6 pm
- Rollingwood Municipal Building
403 Nixon Drive
7 am - 7 pm
- Bee Cave Elementary
14300 Hamilton Pool
7 am - 7 pm
- Services for the Deaf
2201 Post Road
8 am - 10 am
- Travis County Courthouse
1000 Guadalupe St.
9 am - 5 pm
- Huston-Tillotson University
900 Chicon Street
Noon - 2 pm
Mobile Voting for Thursday
Here are today's mobile voting locations and times:
These are, of course,
in addition to the regular early voting locations.
Thursday, May 04, 2006
- Town Lake Center
721 Barton Springs Road
10 am - 6 pm
- Rollingwood Municipal Building
403 Nixon Drive
7 am - 7 pm
- Lago Vista ISD Administration Building
8039 Bar K Ranch Road
7 am - 7 pm
- Manor High School
12700 Gregg Manor Road
8 am - 7 pm
- South Rural Community Cente
3518 South FM 973, Del Valle
9 am - 5 pm
Mobile voting for Wednesday
Here are today's mobile voting locations and times:
These are, of course,
in addition to the regular early voting locations.
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
- Lago Vista City Hall
5803 Thunderbird St
10 am - 6 pm
- Montopolis Recreation Center
1200 Montopolis Drive
4 pm - 6 pm
- AIDS Services of Austin
7215 Cameron Road
8 am - 10 am
- Travis Building
1701 North Congress Avenue
8 am - 6 pm
- Bluebonnet Elementary
11316 Farmhaven
8 am - 7 pm
- Travis County Courthouse
1000 Guadalupe St.
9 am - 5 pm
- St. Edward's University
3001 South Congress Avenue
Noon - 2 pm
Today's mobile voting locations
Here are today's mobile voting locations and times:
These are, of course,
in addition to the regular early voting locations.
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
- Lago Vista City Hall
5803 Thunderbird St7 am - 7 pm
- LBJ Building
111 East 17th Street
8 am - 6 pm
- Sam Houston Building
201 East 14th Street
8 am - 6 pm
- Decker Elementary School
8500 Decker Ln
8 am - 7 pm
- Travis County Courthouse
1000 Guadalupe St.
9 am - 5 pm
Watson misrepresents OGO
The letter was recently sent by Karin Ascot to Kirk Watson
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Dear former Mayor Watson,
I was disturbed to hear your misrepresentations on the robocall I received today with your voice recording. Opponents of the charter amendments (Props 1 and 2) have been using ridiculous tactics to scare people away from voting for open government, and it’s sad to know you have jumped on the bandwagon. I was particularly annoyed at two particular assertions you made.
In the first place, you are surely aware that the Open Government Online amendment would not invade people’s privacy. It would merely give citizens more insight into business at city hall. Yes, it might slow things down a bit and get a little messy, not what the mayor really wants when he’s in the midst of a big deal; but this is our government and our money, and the public process is important, even when inconvenient for elected officials.
Contrary to frequent assertions, the amendment does not require emails to go online instantly. The language reads, “The City must,
as expeditiously as possible and to the greatest extent practical, make all public information available online in real time and accessible to the public.” It requires email to be archived. There is no Big Brother provision to bug phone calls of citizens to city hall. There is no requirement for a stenographer to be present when a council member meets with a developer, only a provision that the public is entitled to know that such a meeting occurred. The hysterical and exaggerated claims of your side certainly make a person wonder what there is to hide, as you all continue to distort the truth even in the face of Judge Yelenosky’s ruling.
Even more offensive, however, is your claim about the amendments being drafted in secret by a small group of people. -- Of course this objection is rather disingenuous, considering that SOSA and other non-profits do not, like the government, collect taxes and make laws, so it is really not the same thing at all as when council makes decisions without public input. -- But the real point
is that you personally were contacted by SOS well before the petition drive began and were asked for your input; but you never took time to respond. It might be fair for you now to say you don’t support the amendments, but to complain about their being written in secret when you yourself were contacted multiple times is outrageous. For a seasoned attorney and council member like yourself, it should have been a matter of a couple of hours to analyze them and offer an opinion at a time when your comments could have been usefully incorporated. Instead you refused to participate. Your actions certainly throw your motives into question.
Karin Ascot
Austin
Early voting begins today
Today marks the start for early voting! Get out there and show your support for Props 1 & 2!
Find out early voting locations here:
CleanAustin Early voting locations
We also have an excellent mobile voting program here in Travis County. These are today's early voting locations:
Monday, May 01, 2006
- Manor Elementary School
600 E. Parsons
10 am - 7 pm
- Lago Vista ISD Administration Building
8039 Bar K Ranch Road
10am - 6 pm
- Englewood Estates
2603 Jones Road
4 pm - 6 pm
- Heatherwilde Assisted Living
401 South Heatherwilde Boulevard, Pflugerville
4 pm - 6 pm
- Summit at Westlake Hills
1034 Liberty Park Drive
8 am - 10 am
- Westminster Manor
4100 Jackson Avenue
8 am - 10 am
- Stephen F. Austin Building
1700 North Congress Avenue
8 am - 6 pm
- Parsons House
1130 Camino La Costa
Noon - 2 pm
- Heritage Park Nursing Center
2806 Real Street
Noon - 2 pm
