AUSTIN – Supporting a top-down cleanup at City Hall, a recall petition leader is taking things to the next level today.
Take Back Austin President Mackenzie Kelly filed her paperwork to run for a four-year term on the City of Austin Council, District 6, late Wednesday. An announcement is set for today (May 7) at 3 p.m. outside Austin City Hall, 301 W. 2nd St.
Kelly will fight to lower runaway property taxes, reduce regulatory burdens on Austin's business community, and push for an external city audit.
Take Back Austin President Mackenzie Kelly filed her paperwork to run for a four-year term on the City of Austin Council, District 6, late Wednesday. An announcement is set for today (May 7) at 3 p.m. outside Austin City Hall, 301 W. 2nd St.
“We could tell Councilman Flannigan to take a hike, but we don't have to – 'Downtown Jimmy' has been deeply embedded with his City Hall cronies ever since taking office!” Kelly said. “It's time for us to not just fix the city but take it back for all Austinites, starting with our many neighborhoods, and not just bureaucratic interests and the whims of urban planners.”
In early March, Kelly was appointed president of the non-profit group Take Back Austin which is focused on constructive ways to keep the Mayor and Council accountable and to educate about the reckless Austin homeless camping ordinance which has threatened the lives of the homeless and the non-homeless alike.
Kelly will fight to lower runaway property taxes, reduce regulatory burdens on Austin's business community, and push for an external city audit.
With the Austin Police Department (APD) now 200 officers short, supporting our law enforcement community will be a major focus of her term. A longtime advocate of Austin's finest, Kelly was recently elected president of the 100th class of APD's Citizen Police Academy. In other civil service, she worked with the Jollyville Fire Department from 2005-13. She is now employed in the health care sector working with front-line workers who care for the area's elderly population.
She's no stranger to the politics of the district, having run for the first election under the 10-1 plan in 2014, finishing with around 9% of the vote on what was mostly a word-of-mouth campaign.
Kelly, a native of Northwest Austin, is a married mother of an inquisitive 10-year-old. Learn more about her and her campaign at facebook.com/mackenzieforaustin.