Robert Pratt
Sometimes the anti-conservative, downtown cheerleader crowd forgets their electoral minority status and goes all out to demonstrate how in love with government action they are and such is the case in the Abilene city council race for Place 6.
In a fine story in the Abilene Reporter-News by Scott Kirk, we find Place 6 challengers publicly criticizing conservative-leader, small businessman Steve Savage for not voting to spend money on duplicative city studies, for choosing not to join the friend of big government local chamber of commerce, and as if that were not enough, big-government-loving Williams actually attacked Councilman Savage for saying “no a whole lot” on the council!
In his inaugural, partial term Savage has lived up to the promises he made Abilene voters, performed admirably, and clearly has upset the big-government-loving civic cheerleader crowd.
Steve Savage is a small-government conservative who has spent several years taking time away from his small business to fight Abilene’s City Hall when it was doing things to hurt businesses and families in the Key City. Savage understands that saying “no” to overreaching government is a plus, not a negative as do most voters. But what is particularly funny is that Savage was ready with a vote count pointing out he has voted “yes” 292 times and “no” 37 times. That makes sense because a lot of what one votes on are routine matters.
Clearly Messrs. McNiece and Williams are lovers of big, activist government at the local level.
Abilene voters should return Steve Savage for a full term on the council. In his inaugural, partial term Savage has lived up to the promises he made Abilene voters, performed admirably, and clearly has upset the big-government-loving civic cheerleader crowd.
It should be an interesting May 7th election in the Key City.
I agree 100%!
I agree 1000%! Well said! Go Steve!
10/4 on that! Steve and Bruce are the only two that support limited government. All of the others are progressive taxers and spenders Abilene has been spending money on progressive beatification, and now they have to borrow money to fix our crumbling streets. They spend money on new social projects, but there is a limited budget for mowing the medians around our over-passes. (i.e. Buffalo Gap Rd & Winters Free-way) Look at that mess!!!