User:Wheresmything

Local elections and policy enthusiast.
=== I'm currently working on a project to add information to Wikipedia about local government at all levels in Austin, Texas, including the Austin City Council, Travis County, Austin ISD, and the Austin Community College District. ===

Add pages for every Austin municipal election cycle since the adoption of districts in the 2014 election - 3/6 done

 * 2024 Austin municipal elections - Done
 * 2022 Austin municipal elections - Done
 * 2020 Austin municipal elections - Done
 * 2018 Austin municipal elections - To Do
 * 2016 Austin municipal elections - To Do
 * 2014 Austin municipal elections - To Do

Fill out pages, including for vote info for every election and endorsements in contested elections in each article above

 * 2024 Austin municipal elections - Done
 * Added endorsements for: District 6 (Mackenzie Kelly, Krista Laine), District 7 (Mike Siegel, Edwin Bautista), District 10 (Ashika Ganguly), District 10 (Marc Duchen)
 * 2022 Austin municipal elections - Done
 * Added endorsements for: District 3 (Jose Velasquez, José Noé Elías, Daniela Silva), District 4 (Chito Vela, Monica Guzman), District 5 (Ken Craig, Ryan Alter, Stephanie Bazan), and District 9 (Linda Guerrero, Zohaib "Zo" Qadri, Ben Leffler, Joah Spearman, Greg Smith
 * Need to source endorsements for: District 5 (Aaron Vasquez Webman), District 9 (Tom Wald)
 * Added vote info for District 1, District 3, District 4 (special), District 5, District 8, District 9
 * 2020 Austin municipal elections - In progress
 * Added endorsements for: District 2 (Vanessa Fuentes, David Chincanchan, Casey Ramos) and District 6 (Jimmy Flannigan, Mackenzie Kelly, Jennifer Mushtaler)
 * Need to source endorsements for: District 7 (Leslie Pool, Morgan Witt), and District 10 (Alison Alter, Jennifer Virden, Pooja Sethi)
 * Need to add voting info
 * 2018 Austin municipal elections - To Do
 * 2016 Austin municipal elections - To Do
 * 2014 Austin municipal elections - To Do

Fill out pages for every Austin City Council district - In Progress
All pages created and filled out. Working on adding board and commissioner info.

District 1: To Do
Ora Houston - To Do

Natasha Harper-Madison - To Do

District 2: To Do
Delia Garza - To Do

Vanessa Fuentes - To Do

District 3: To Do
Pio Renteria - To Do

Jose Velasquez - To Do

District 4: In progress
Greg Casar - Already Created

Jose "Chito" Vela - To Do

District 5: Finished
Ann Kitchen - Already Created

Ryan Alter - Done

District 6: To Do
Don Zimmerman- To Do

Jimmy Flannigan - To Do

Mackenzie Kelly - To Do

District 7: To Do
Leslie Pool - To Do

District 8: In Progress
Ellen Troxclair - already created

Paige Ellis - To Do

District 9: To Do
Kathie Tovo - To Do

Zohaib "Zo" Qadri - To Do

District 10: To Do
Sheri Gallo - To Do

Alison Alter - To Do

Add city council district info to the Wiki page for every Austin neighborhood that has its own page - In progress
Completed: Barton Hills, Bouldin Creek, Bryker Woods, Downtown, East Riverside-Oltorf, Hancock, Hyde Park, Pemberton Heights, South Lamar, South River City, Spyglass-Barton's Bluff, Travis Heights

Add election history boxes for all incumbent Travis County state legislators - In Progress

 * Ellen Troxclair - To Do
 * Sheryl Cole - Done
 * Vikki Goodwin - To Do
 * Donna Howard - To Do
 * Gina Hinojosa - To Do
 * James Talarico - To Do
 * Lulu Flores - Done
 * Sarah Eckhardt - To Do
 * Judith Zaffirini - To Do
 * Donna Campbell - To Do

Disclosure:

I have worked on local campaigns before and have been involved in city and state policy advocacy. Therefore, I have opinions about most of these people. This project is in no way created in service of any candidate, cause, or campaign. I've created this project to help level the playing field and democratize information about our city government, where good people often get discouraged from advocating for their beliefs by complex city jargon and hard-to-navigate websites and resources.

When I got interested in local politics, I wished that there was already a resource like this available for me to get engaged in Austin politics. This project is a result of many years of research and keeping links and sources on hand for when I got around to it.

I want this to be a resource for anyone interested in local politics, regardless of their political stances and backgrounds. I have been diligent in my writing to be as objective as I can be. That said, if you believe something I have contributed is unfairly biased, misrepresents context, or anything along those lines, please feel free to contact me and let me know.