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Central city margins helped push Leffingwell close to 50 percent

Although he missed the mark that would have put him into the Mayor’s office without a runoff, Council Member Lee Leffingwell got 47.4 percent of the vote, taking a majority in a number of important central city precincts and coming…

McCracken bows out of Mayoral race

After finishing 20 points behind first place candidate Lee Leffingwell on Saturday, Brewster McCracken has decided to withdraw from the race. He notified supporters by email a few minutes ago.   A Leffingwell spokesman said the two would hold a…

Leffingwell cruises into runoff with substantial lead over McCracken

With barely 13 percent of Austin voters participating, Council Member Lee Leffingwell grabbed 47 percent of the votes for Austin mayor Saturday, just a few points short of taking the election outright. Instead, he will face Mayor Pro Tem Brewster…

Riley handily takes Place 1 race; Martinez, Cole cruise to victory

In the race to fill Leffingwell’s Place 1 seat on the Council, Austin attorney Chris Riley defeated political activist Perla Cavazos with 66 percent of the vote. At 10 p.m. Riley took the stage at Scholz Garten, where his supporters…

Early Vote: Leffingwell 47.17 percent, McCracken 27.37 and Strayhorn 21.32

Early Vote: Leffingwell 47.17 percent, McCracken 27.37 and Strayhorn 21.32 More to come

Leffingwell, Riley take strong lead in Early Voting

Early voting results for the City of Austin Municipal Elections show that Council Member Lee Leffingwell has a taken commanding lead in the Mayor’s race, with 47 percent, or 13,248 votes. Two challengers, Mayor Pro Tem Brewster McCracken and former…

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McCracken’s campaign acknowledges there’s a “lot of ground to make up.”

The early voting results have come in, and show Brewster McCracken with 27 percent of the vote so far – ahead of Carole Keeton Strayhorn, who came in with 21 percent, but far behind fellow Council Member Lee Leffingwell, who…

Austin sales tax revenues down nine percent

The recession continues to drag down the city’s revenues. Austin collected $12.6 million dollars in March, which was 9.2 percent less then the $13.9 million raised in March ‘08. It was actually a slight improvement over the fiscal year average,…

Donisi offers another perspective on ordinance change

Attorney John Donisi wants to set the record straight when it comes to just when and how the decision was made to revise the city’s historic preservation ordinance, revisions that could go to Council in the coming months. In Fact…

Zoning commission chair unhappy with proposed historic ordinance change

Note: After this story ran, Attorney John Donisi gave a significantly different account with how the ordinance changes took place. Donisi is the current president of the Heritage Society of Austin and a former member of the Zoning and Platting…

Naishtat and Meeker’s bills tighten rules for ethics complaints

Two ethics bills, spearheaded by former Council candidate Jason Meeker and sponsored by Rep. Elliott Naishtat, may impact future Austin city council campaigns. They aim to make it harder to file frivolous ethics complaints in the last days of the…

Leffingwell files complaint against McCracken

After complaining to the press about mayoral opponent Brewster McCracken’s fundraising from out of town sources on Sunday, Lee Leffingwell on Monday filed a complaint with the Austin municipal court against McCracken.   Although only one complaint was filed, Leffingwell…

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