Here’s one minute of information on each race
A term-limited Leslie Pool means District 7 will have new representation for the first time since Barack Obama was president – and with her departure, the last goodbye to a member of the inaugural class of 10-1 Council members . Meanwhile, West Austin voters in District 10 will say farewell to Alison Alter , the second-longest-serving CM on the current Council.
This week we’ve got a broad overview of the six Council elections Austin voters will decide on in about nine weeks. In the weeks to come, we’ll zoom in on each race to provide a more in-depth look at the candidates and issues they’re campaigning on.Vanessa Fuentes has been popular and well-respected in her Southeast district since winning the D2 seat with a commanding 56% of the vote in a four-way race in 2020.
When Casar ascended to the U.S. House of Representatives, José “Chito” Vela won the special election to replace him handily, taking 59% of the vote in a seven-person race. Whether or not Vela has filled the big shoes left by Casar as a leader on the dais for criminal justice issues is debatable, but Vela has certainly taken the mantle of progressive housing champion and run with it.
That transformation pitted Pool against some of Austin’s most powerful neighborhoods . This election will test if voters are still on board with a more density-friendly candidate. D10 is Austin’s second-most-Republican district, but given that both Duchen and Ganguly are Democrats, the race is likely to center more on local issues than in D6. Namely: housing, where residents in some D10 neighborhoods have opposed Council’s recent forms. Duchen counts himself among one of those skeptics, as he told us in January.
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