Crystal_Cotti's Blog

The race for Austin City Council Place 3 is getting more heated every day.  The candidates aren't even taking weekends off when it comes to attacking each other.

The latest attack includes an anonymous robo call Jennifer Kim's campaign is now taking responsibility for. It  goes after Shade claiming she agreed to increase public safety funding in exchange for their endorsement, which she got earlier this year.  Shade calls the attack a blantant lie and that she only said she would do everything she can to increase the number of officers, firefighters and EMS workers on the streets of Austin.  Kim denied any involvement with the robo call this weekend when asked by a News8 Austin reporter .

Fast forward to Monday and Jennifer Kim is out sick and her campaign manager is stuck having to say 'yes' the robo calls were in fact part of their campaign.  That can't look good to voters. Even if Jennifer Kim was sincerely in the dark about the robo call, voters should question why she isn't more aware of her campaign's actions. If she knew about the robo call and lied about it on camera, that's just stupid.

I will raise this question about Shade...she says she made no funding promises to the public safety unions, but if she said she'd do everything in her power to increase the number of officers on the streets, how is that not a funding promise? Are all these new officers going to work for free? Not likely.