Austin Voters Strongly Reject Unfettered Homeless Camping, Weakening Radicals Adler and Casar

• • After the Election Day votes were counted, Adler and Casar took an old-fashioned shellacking.
  • Voters approved Prop B, ending homeless camping, 58% to 42%.
  • Voters rejected Prop F, the strong mayor proposal, 87% to 13%.
  • Prop G, which would have added another council district, fell 57% to 43%.
  • Voters also rejected Prop H, the “democracy dollars” proposal, 57% to 43%.

“…Texas political data expert Derek Ryan laid out the facts of the election on social media Saturday night: “Here’s what you need to know about the Austin camping ban proposition as it heads towards victory. Only 20% of early voters were Republican Primary voters. 55% were Democrat Primary voters. The remaining had no primary history but based on modeling data, 75% of that group skewed Democrat.

Assuming every Republican Primary voter and modeled Republican voter voted for the camping ban, they still only make up 40% of the ‘yes’ votes.”

Austin has roundly rejected radical Mayor Steve Adler, radical Councilman Greg Casar, and one of their signature changes to the city: allowing tent cities to spring up all over town, and lawlessness along with that. Austin’s Democratic voters led the way in rejecting Adler and Casar.

Over the past several years, Adler and Casar have led the council into the tent cities debacle and defunding the police, among other destructive far-left changes. Violent crime is sharply up and police officers are leaving APD at an unsustainable pace. May’s election suggests the city is waking up to the destruction their policies are having on the city and are looking for a different direction. District 6 elected Republican Mackenzie Kelly in a runoff in December 2020, rejecting one of the city council’s most vocal radicals. The question after that and Saturday’s election result is what effect it will have on the other members of the city council. How will they read the election and respond to it?

Austin’s voters are clearly moving decisively away from Adler and Casar…”