Posted on 05/02/2021 1:56:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Voters in Austin, Texas, adopted a proposition during Saturday’s elections to reinstate a ban on camping in certain public areas, a win for those seeking to address the city’s homeless who are living in tents along the streets.
The ballot measure, known as Proposition B, passed 57 percent to 43 percent, according to election results.
It includes a ban on “sitting or lying down on a public sidewalk or sleeping outdoors in and near the Downtown area and the area around the University of Texas campus,” certain types of solicitation, and “camping in any public area not designated by the Parks and Recreation Department.”
The group that petitioned to add the proposition to the ballot, Save Austin Now, celebrated its victory Saturday night. Cofounder Matt Mackowiak stated on social media, “Tonight’s decisive win for @saveaustinnow is a clear message to @MayorAdler and @GregCasar that a majority of Austinites will no longer tolerate failed policies that harm standard of living.”
The group had been making its case against deregulation of public camping and solicitation while it fundraised and collected petition signatures, and published a video of examples in April to illustrate its issue:
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Even liberals have limits to their tolerance of homelessness and other social problems.
Apparently not, after I believe 2 or 3 years of bums living on 6th street and using the sidewalk as their private pleasure zone and defecating on the public sidewalk, 43% felt this was acceptable behavior.
My daughter lives in Austin and has decided to move. The liberalism and the threat of aggressive panhandlers and homeless people have made it awful for her and her husband. Any suggestions on a small city or big town in east Texas is appreciated. She and her husband will be spending the next 6 months or so travelling searching for a good place to raise future kids, set down roots and become involved in their new area.
Will be overturned later this week by a marxist judge.
Basically a whole city full of limousine liberal hypocrites.
Wow! These are among some of most popular liberal pastimes.
IF ONLY THESE VAGRANTS WOULD CAMP OUT NEAR RAT POLITICANS ESTATES
Try Jefferson, Texas. My late brother lived there for thirty years and loved it. It’s a town with a lot of history.
Have them drive US 59, say from Livingston up to Texarkana. Lots of nice towns along there. Along I-20, maybe Tyler or Longview. Larger but more industrial and closer to the Gulf Coast is the Beaumont area.
“Even liberals have limits to their tolerance of homelessness and other social problems.”
They don’t pay taxes yet they live off the local economy. Hmmmm, sounds like illegal aliens.
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Most of east Texas is pretty good, I’ve been back here since 2012, Lufkin area. Lufkin and Nacogdoches are the rwo largest citie, Nac is a college town, Stephen F Austin is there. Don’t know just how liberal it is, I never did spend a lot of time there, but they do have some good eateries and a couple of nice parks. Trade days 3rd weekend each month is good too. Like a huge yard sale.
Jobs depend on what they are looking for. I’m not in touch any more, retired. Lockheed Martin has a place here, I hear they build targeting systems for the military. No machine shops left, NAFTA cleaned all those out after I left for Louisiana around 2001 or so.
People I talk to seem to think schools are pretty decent, but you’re still dealing with union run, liberal schools system indoctrinating idiots, no place in the USactually educaates kids any more. I don’t think most people really look that close at what their kids are actually “learning”.
Case in point, I walked into a resale shop one day over a year ago and overheard 3 ladies discussing their outrage when they found out their 4th grade daughters (10 years old) were being sent to sex education class, and being taught how to have anal sex. That is happening all over the country. I was reading articles expressing concern that kids in 4th - 6th grades were being sent to sex ed 20 years ago. Back then they weren’t going to quite such extremes but...10 years old and in sex ed??? When I was 10 I had never even heard the word sex yet. We had sex ed in 10th or 11th grade.
Even so, we still manage to have a pretty good area here, with several decent smaller towns too. Huntington and Zavalla are almost blink and you missed it, San Augustine not much bigger, Apple Springs is still a block long I think, haven’t been to Crockett in 20 years but it was a decent small town, head toward Dallas and you get Longview, Tyler, Jacksonville...Tyler is a pretty big place, but I don’t think it’s as liberal as Austin sounds. But I’m just guessing, never lived there.
Wow. That is out of control.
How many of those 43% voting to keep public “camping” live in gated communities or far from the areas where the homeless are messing up the environment? It is easy to be woke or “compassionate” when it doesn’t actually impact you.
Today’s “Liberals” are composed of nothing but limits. They are Fascists by any legitimate definition of the term.
If it's not overturned then Austin mayor just won't enforce it.
Like, when gas hits 5 and 6 dollars a gallon, I feel bad for decent folk.
Liberals, on the other hand. I hope you choke on it.
The article quotes somebody saying the ban will hurt black folks the most. I live in Austin and most of the people that I see camping on the streets are drugged out whites.
Lakeway in Texas Hill country. It is beautiful. And mostly red.
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