Hamza Sait
@nottherealHamza
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“Mamdani in an hour was able to essentially blow up the idea of demonizing democratic socialists.” — Majority Report’s @SamSeder on CNN
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Mamdani turned his haters into waiters at the table of success
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$6.3 million in cuts to EMS? You gotta be kidding me...
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Revisiting this one while waiting for budget drop take 2.... https://t.co/RaJrN39CAg
statesman.com
Austin devotes nearly two-thirds of its budget to public safety, with most recent increases going to the police. City Council is now working to rebalance that spending.
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Prop Q TLDR Part 2: turns out I was wrong — Council CAN cut the police budget, but only if the whole city budget shrinks and the cut is proportional to everyone else’s. Predicting today’s “balanced” budget will slash everything but APD.
Prop Q TLDR: Austin City Council voted for a police budget they can’t afford. Texas cities (legally) can’t lower police budgets once set so now parks, infrastructure, and all the good things are at risk. Vote for it but understand what’s happening and hold people accountable.
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The difference from a year ago is so crazy, like where is this clarity/commitment now?
My statement regarding the results of Proposition Q and what comes next for Austin:
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The police contract fight is gonna be insane bro.
It feels to me like #atxcouncil did not have the political capital needed to marshal progressives after burning so much of it to pass the police contract that did a lot to put us into this budget mess in the first place.
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Dem. candidates across America said they'd fight to reduce prices. In Austin, we were asked to give more. Gov.-Elect Sherrill said on day 1, a state of emergency to lower utility rates This isn't an era of abundance; it's the time of the squeeze. Fight for us & we fight with you
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It feels to me like #atxcouncil did not have the political capital needed to marshal progressives after burning so much of it to pass the police contract that did a lot to put us into this budget mess in the first place.
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Not even close bro
Unofficial final results for Austin's Prop Q: For: 62,719 votes / 36.52% Against: 109,011 votes / 63.48% against
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i don’t think people can fully grasp just how much a billion is tbh
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If you're going to call legitimate concerns "deeply anti-intellectual" then call out the council members buying tacos, Sweetgreen and flights on our dime what it is, deeply anti-intellectual. Or do you have a valid argument for why those are valid expenditures? Like our new logo!
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No one in power says it because I was used as an example of what happens when you do speak up. @CMZoQadri @zoforaustin
Prop Q is about public order. In the short-term it funds a lot of homeless services & housing, which is about getting them out of public spaces. In the long-term, we'll need that boost to accommodate the new APD & AFD contracts. Everybody knows this, no one in power says it. 5/n
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The dip in APD budget growth rate is from moving the $16m Central Intake ILA with Travis County from APD to "Interdepartmental Charges". Same service level, different accounting line. And here's the population projections I used, which are the City Demographers'. 4/n
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Austin's population growth collapse should be a massive alarm for the budget, and the City's current reply is that this problem will just go away. Our budget should account for shock factors like this instead of acting like they don't exist.
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Zo claims this was a coincidence. I’m not stupid.
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@natemcguire @Doolittle78749 There’s $32M that sits there for openings they cannot fill while millions more go to OT pay. There’s tens of millions in police misconduct payouts.
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