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The Travis County Republican Party recommends voting for:
CITY OF LEANDER: Andy Hogue for Mayor, Mike Herrera for Council Place 2, Monica Roussel-Methena for Place 4, and Pulla Reddy Yeduru for Place 6.
TRAVIS COUNTY APPRAISAL DISTRICT: Don Zimmerman for Place 1, Matt Mackowiak for Place 2, and Bill May for Place 3

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Jett Hanna for Place 1

An attorney with a background in commercial real estate law, Hanna has experience in the appraisal district board's work, having served on it from 1988 to 1990. He is a member of the Texas Supreme Court Professional Ethics Committee.
Hanna faces one opponent, former Austin City Council member Don Zimmerman, who declined to speak to the Editorial Board.


Although the appraisal process is technical in nature, Hanna said ideology still can distort outcomes. Because two out of three elected board members must approve appointments, two could stall the taxation process, he said.
"It's important that we fight the battles in the right places," Hanna told the Editorial Board. "If you try to elect people with a certain angle on taxation, then you have the potential for that person appointing people who have the same philosophy."

Shenghao "Daniel" Wang for Place 2
A lawyer specializing in electricity regulation, Wang's first-generation parents moved from an apartment without furniture to home ownership. With a math degree from MIT, Wang enrolled in Harvard Law School. His goal, he said, was to gain skills to help the community.


Wang said he prioritizes a fair-minded board of directors. Politicization, he said, could gravely harm schools and other tax-dependent services. "The way the law was written," he said, "created a lot of opportunity for elected TCAD members to really mess with the process underlying funding for public services."
Wang's opponents are Jonathan Craig Patschke, a software developer and treasurer of the Travis County Libertarian Party, and Matt Mackowiak, Travis County Republican Party Chairman and a Republican consultant. Both said they would keep politics out of the TCAD system. But Wang's outstanding legal, mathematical and regulatory sector experience and his community commitment qualify him uniquely in our view.
Dick Lavine for Place 3
It is hard to envision a candidate better suited for this post than Lavine. He has a law degree and is a certified Chartered Financial Analyst. He served on TCAD's board of directors for 22 years and worked in research at the Legislature for nearly three decades, with the policy nonprofit Every Texan.
His opponent, Bill May, who is retired from the construction business, did not return emails from the Statesman Editorial Board.


Lavine told the Editorial Board his goal is to preserve the district's integrity from political interference and protect its role in the tax system. He said he's most concerned about the potential for manipulation of review board appointments through veto by elected board members.
The review process, he said, "is technical, but it's not physics." For accurate, consistent funding for schools and other public services, we believe, Lavine will be a dedicated champion.

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I want to have a "hot teacher contest" every spring at Chaparal Stadium. This contest will be open to all female teachers in the EISD. We are going to get them up there in high heels and bikinis and when that jiggling gets just right we are going to whoop and holler, shout and stomp our feet and let those girls know how pretty we think they are! [Portion of response removed; does not meet criteria.] will not be allowed in the contest, just real All-American girls, hopefully with some very nice curves. I volunteer to be one of the judges in this contest.

Starting in 1st grade, we will teach the kids how to make anti-Zionist Tik Tok videos as we teach them about Israel's genocide of the Palestinians.

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Williamson County:
county wide:
Williamson County Appraisal District Jim Buell, Mike Sanders, Collin Klein
city councils:
Hutto City Council Pl 2 Dan Thornton
Hutto City Council Pl 5 Nicole Calderone
Hutto Props A-P NO on all of them
school boards:
Hutto ISD Ashley Rendon and James Matlock

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Suppose everyone saw the TCAD results.

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