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TexasTowelie

(111,928 posts)
Mon May 22, 2017, 12:31 AM May 2017

So This Is Apparently What San Antonio Mayor Taylor's Campaign Thinks of "Liberals"



Last week, Mayor Ivy Taylor's new campaign director told us Taylor was going to get "back to her roots" before the June 10 runoff election against Councilman Ron Nirenberg.

Judging by the campaign's most recent move, that apparently means the online trolling of her "liberal" opponent.

On Wednesday, the website LiberalRon.com started making the rounds in political circles on social media. The site loudly welcomes visitors with the gigantic words "Liberal Ron Nirenberg for Mayor" and features a fake news story chiding Nirenberg for supposedly flip-flopping on a number of city issues.

The story, complete with faux Nirenberg quotes, sprinkles in a few examples of the councilman's shifting views on specific issues, like when he voted to approve the construction of the Vista Ridge Pipeline, a project that would funnel water from the Hill Country to San Antonio — that is, before he later raised concerns about what he calls serious changes to the contract. Or when Nirenberg supported the rezoning of the Mission Trails mobile home park to allow for the construction of a luxury apartment complex — and later, after learning of how the park's tenants were negatively impacted by the decision, called it a mistake.

Read more: http://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2017/05/18/so-this-is-apparently-what-mayor-taylors-campaign-thinks-of-liberals
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So This Is Apparently What San Antonio Mayor Taylor's Campaign Thinks of "Liberals" (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2017 OP
It will be interesting to see how this election turns out LeftInTX May 2017 #1

LeftInTX

(25,117 posts)
1. It will be interesting to see how this election turns out
Mon May 22, 2017, 02:42 AM
May 2017

She sounds kinda desperate.

She won in 2015 because she won Ron Nirenberg's district.

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