Austin Votes to Keep the Books Closed

Austin Votes to Keep the Books Closed-Austin, Texas
"It would be hard to find a better example of left-wing naiveité in municipal affairs than what transpired here in November.
Voters in the Lone Star State’s progressive bastion, overwhelmingly approved a $925 million bond package but rejected a simple ballot initiative for an independent audit of city spending.
The defeat of the audit wouldn’t be so galling if the new bonds didn’t so obviously demonstrate the need for an independent review of Austin’s books.
Spending in the Texas capital is more like what one would expect in some profligate California city. With this new bond package, Austin has been reduced to using debt to fund parks, public safety and sidewalk repair—instead of paying for them out of its $4.1 billion annual budget.
...Putting progressive ideals and special interests ahead of working people is a familiar pattern in Austin.
...As for the independent audit thwarted in the November election, Austin progressives could hardly admit they opposed accountability for their spending schemes, so they campaigned against the audit initiative as a right-wing plot funded by the Koch brothers and “dark money.”...
Lot of liberal lunacy here, read it all!