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Aus­tinites for Progressive Reform s
strong mayor proposal (Proposition F) was failing spectacularly.
Bo Delp, organizer with
By the People ATX, called it a repudiation of Prop F s provision that a future strong mayor could veto decisions made by City Council, the main message his team had been using to urge Austinites to reject the proposal. Others, such as labor leader
Jeremy Hendricks, pointed to a lack of authentic community engagement from APR as it crafted its proposals last fall: The last thing we want is millionaires and tech CEOs telling us what they think is good for us.
By the time votes were cast on election day, APR was being out-hustled by two different campaigns against Prop F: By the People ATX, largely backed by labor groups (including those representing city employees), and ....

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