Hereās the video of the meeting. Itās interesting to listen to the young staffers and hard not to feel for their sadness and hurt. They seem to have bought into the bullshit and actually thought the āHeritage Foundationā was on the level.
I guess. Frankly Iāve canāt think of a supply imbalance in history that has ever corrected without meeting the top of the market first. The Austin MSA is correcting in large part because of all the āluxury condosā that came on the market around the same time rates went up. My point is that we donāt need to pay developers to take risks, but to simply allow them to meet the market.
Indeed two of the three important drivers of affordability erosion are income inequality and two decades of essentially free credit combined with federal tax stimulus for top earners. But, we canāt address that at the municipal level. We can only address the third major contributor, which is restrictions on housing construction in centralish Austin.
Context- Sands Corp was the primary financial supporter for Huffman, who came in a distant third in the Texas Senate Special.
Sands Corpās President and COO is Miriam Adelsonās Son-in-Law, Patrick Dumont the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, who approved trading Luka Doncic.
I donāt t think we do, what I said was more in the spirit of addressing a lot of what Iām hearing from normie Republicans and ex-Republicans these days, which is propping up Cheney to deflect blame from Bush, the same way they give Reagan a pass for his role in paving the way for Trumpism.
The āBush was manipulatedā defense holds no water for me. Iām not one of the many ex Republicans on this board and I have no nostalgia for Bush. Iām sure heās a nice man, but everyone other than Trump was a better president and Rick Perry was a better governor.
He was the president and no one else. If he was manipulated thatās on him.
I will give Dick Cheney credit for this one, singular thing: after leaving office he demonstrated more personal integrity than any living male member of the Bush family.
As catastrophic as the consequences of his actions have been, his was not the final say. That belonged to President Bush, who despite leading the world into calamity has enjoyed a reputational rehabilitation he does not deserve. While Bush, his brother and his nephew remained silent on the existential threat to the Republic represented by Trump and Trumpism, Cheney and his daughter rang the alarm bells. America is in terminal decline in part because of his career, but Iāll give him that much credit.
The shame of it is that I like most of these players a lot. Klay is washed and Caleb Martin is not a full time NBA caliber basketball player but the rest of them are terrific supporting cast and for their own good and the franchise Iād like to see everyone older than PJ Washington traded for picks to playoff teams.