Right wing candidates in the suburbs look to move away from Austin.
It seems like pretty much the worst time to leave Capital Metro, with the ambitious Project Connect transit system expansion plan just beginning to bear fruit, but Leander residents will get that option at the May 7 election.
But there have always been doubts in the city about Cap Metro's value. A group calling itself Just Say No to Cap Metro, aided by former Leander City Council Member Mike Sanders, argues the city could replace the transit services it receives for just $2 million a year, leaving $8 million to invest in economic development or anything else. Pro-Prop A group Keep Leander Connected's James Larsen responds that abandoning Cap Metro would actually worsen the city's finances.
Two of the challengers, Dorian Chavez and Tim Kelly, made headlines as MAGA-affiliated flamethrowers on the council from 2018 to 2020, then got beaten, and now want their jobs back. The third, Collin Klein, ran unsuccessfully last year and hasn't really stopped; his slogan is"Keep Austin policies out of Cedar Park." An Instagram post last year about an alleged threat Klein received concludes:"Bring it on commies.
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