Mayoral candidate sues for more outside cash in campaigns
You wouldn’t think current mayoral candidate Doug Greco and former City Council Member Don Zimmerman would have much in common. Zimmerman is a hard-right ideologue who proclaims an aggressive creed of muscular Christianity. He also explicitly rejects any tolerance for LGBT rights such as same-sex marriage, which he has described as.
Since the mayoral campaign is well underway and early voting for the Nov. 5 election begins Oct. 21, Greco is asking for a quick federal injunction that would immediately block enforcement of the cap, enabling him to collect more out-of-town funding. Greco’s legal and personal position is that all these people from all over the country should be free to contribute to his campaign just like Austin residents. To do otherwise, he argues, would “violate the equal rights of people who live outside of Austin in order to protect a monopoly on political speech and political power of incumbents, independently wealthy candidates who can self-fund without limits, and the old-money network of Austin insiders.
I put that question to Greco, and he responded that the only way he can hope to compete with the larger fortunes of Watson and Tovo is to ask for more donations from his supporters in Pennsylvania, Florida, and California. He’s also received the endorsement of the national, which supports gay candidates across the country, and he says he should be allowed to parlay that network into out-of-Austin contributions – now that he’s hit the cap, he can’t do so.
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