Austin Texas ballot initiative to hire police fails
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Austin is a little over a hour's drive from here, but I knew nothing about it. The article linked says the usual culprits funded the campaign against it. So where's our side, or do we have one?
It seems that the middle position is the status quo; as Minneapolis didn't abolish the police, but Austin didn't help the police either.
This is one reason I do not trust ideological arguments. The "middle" in that kind of argument isn't any better than the "extreme". The only reasonable approach is to improve the level of security in Austin because crime is going way up. Instead they do the opposite. It seems that the issue is being falsely framed. Otherwise you would get a more reasonable outcome.
You don't need money to fight this. One election was won without spending hardly any money at all, and the guy that got beat was pretty important. Outside people are said to have contributed to the defeat of the measure in Austin. Since I wasn't paying attention to that, I have no further information than this. It says something, and that is not good.
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