Progressive causes lose big in San Antonio...

[Chris]

Progressive causes lose big in San Antonio and El Paso charter elections

Yesterday saw Proposition A roundly defeated 101,515 votes to 40,200.

Prop A, called the Justice Charter, sought to:

• Prevent officers from investigating abortions.
• Halt citations and arrests for low-level marijuana possession.
• Ban police chokeholds and no-knock warrants.
• Expand the city's cite-and-release policy to direct officers to cite, not arrest, people for certain misdemeanor offenses, including some theft offenses.
• Create a justice director position for the city, a person who hasn't worked in law enforcement and would oversee criminal justice policies.

All but the last point was unenforcible.

“We hope this defeat sends a strong message to those activists seeking to circumvent statewide laws that protect unborn babies from abortion,” Amy O’Donnell, a spokesperson for the anti-abortion Texas Alliance for Life, said in a statement. “Gimmicks, like the bundling of the decriminalization of abortion with other measures, did not work in San Antonio. Texans won't stand for it, and our cities deserve better.”

[stjames1_53]

Progressive causes lose big in San Antonio and El Paso charter elections

Yesterday saw Proposition A roundly defeated 101,515 votes to 40,200.

Prop A, called the Justice Charter, sought to:

• Prevent officers from investigating abortions.
• Halt citations and arrests for low-level marijuana possession.
• Ban police chokeholds and no-knock warrants.
• Expand the city's cite-and-release policy to direct officers to cite, not arrest, people for certain misdemeanor offenses, including some theft offenses.
• Create a justice director position for the city, a person who hasn't worked in law enforcement and would oversee criminal justice policies.

All but the last point was unenforcible.

“We hope this defeat sends a strong message to those activists seeking to circumvent statewide laws that protect unborn babies from abortion,” Amy O’Donnell, a spokesperson for the anti-abortion Texas Alliance for Life, said in a statement. “Gimmicks, like the bundling of the decriminalization of abortion with other measures, did not work in San Antonio. Texans won't stand for it, and our cities deserve better.”

let the crowd-burning-buildings peaceful riots begin!

[Crepitus]

Progressive causes lose big in San Antonio and El Paso charter elections

Yesterday saw Proposition A roundly defeated 101,515 votes to 40,200.

Prop A, called the Justice Charter, sought to:

• Prevent officers from investigating abortions.
• Halt citations and arrests for low-level marijuana possession.
• Ban police chokeholds and no-knock warrants.
• Expand the city's cite-and-release policy to direct officers to cite, not arrest, people for certain misdemeanor offenses, including some theft offenses.
• Create a justice director position for the city, a person who hasn't worked in law enforcement and would oversee criminal justice policies.

All but the last point was unenforcible.

“We hope this defeat sends a strong message to those activists seeking to circumvent statewide laws that protect unborn babies from abortion,” Amy O’Donnell, a spokesperson for the anti-abortion Texas Alliance for Life, said in a statement. “Gimmicks, like the bundling of the decriminalization of abortion with other measures, did not work in San Antonio. Texans won't stand for it, and our cities deserve better.”

Abbott wants to be Ronda Fascist's mini-me.

As far as the results, wasn't Abbott one if the louder "stop the steal" freaks? And we all know that every republican accusation is a confession...

[zelmo1234]

Abbott wants to be Ronda Fascist's mini-me.

As far as the results, wasn't Abbott one if the louder "stop the steal" freaks? And we all know that every republican accusation is a confession...

????? What does this have to do with the people voting down the left wing anti law enforcement BS

[carolina73]

Abbott wants to be Ronda Fascist's mini-me.

As far as the results, wasn't Abbott one if the louder "stop the steal" freaks? And we all know that every republican accusation is a confession...

What does the Governor have to do with a local Charter elections?

Should the response be that Eric Swalwell was doing Chinese spies?

[Chris]

I live just outside San Antonio so don't get to vote but like SA more and more for voting down these progressive measures. The town council seems out of step with the people if they tried to push this through and got this vote. I suspect a lot of it has to do with a fairly conservative Hispanic majority.

[NoisyBoy]

I live just outside San Antonio so don't get to vote but like SA more and more for voting down these progressive measures. The town council seems out of step with the people if they tried to push this through and got this vote. I suspect a lot of it has to do with a fairly conservative Hispanic majority.

Not to get off on a tangent here. The flood of Latino’s that are being allowed into this nation unchecked by this administration is not for concern for their well being as much as it is trying to buy a huge voting block.

It may end up backfiring because of the conservative nature of Latino’s.

[Chris]

Not to get off on a tangent here. The flood of Latino’s that are being allowed into this nation unchecked by this administration is not for concern for their well being as much as it is trying to buy a huge voting block.

It may end up backfiring because of the conservative nature of Latino’s.

I think so. That seems to come with time as they assimilate and assert their values. I believe the majority of Hispanic citizens want the border secure.

[Carl Young]

Progressive causes lose big in San Antonio and El Paso charter elections

Yesterday saw Proposition A roundly defeated 101,515 votes to 40,200.

Prop A, called the Justice Charter, sought to:

• Prevent officers from investigating abortions.
• Halt citations and arrests for low-level marijuana possession.
• Ban police chokeholds and no-knock warrants.
• Expand the city's cite-and-release policy to direct officers to cite, not arrest, people for certain misdemeanor offenses, including some theft offenses.
• Create a justice director position for the city, a person who hasn't worked in law enforcement and would oversee criminal justice policies.

All but the last point was unenforcible.

“We hope this defeat sends a strong message to those activists seeking to circumvent statewide laws that protect unborn babies from abortion,” Amy O’Donnell, a spokesperson for the anti-abortion Texas Alliance for Life, said in a statement. “Gimmicks, like the bundling of the decriminalization of abortion with other measures, did not work in San Antonio. Texans won't stand for it, and our cities deserve better.”

That's the good news. The bad news is that there's 40,200 idiots living in San Antonio

[Now_What]

Not to get off on a tangent here. The flood of Latino’s that are being allowed into this nation unchecked by this administration is not for concern for their well being as much as it is trying to buy a huge voting block.

It may end up backfiring because of the conservative nature of Latino’s.

Right, your last sentence nails it. There’s little advantage to letting “Latinos” in when many vote R. So the first part of your post is BS.