MontyAntony

[Austin is Corrupt @saveaustintx]

So City of Austin employees run wild and charge $44 million on their city credit cards and don’t have proper documentation to back up or justify purchases. This is just how the city operates and totally acceptable to them. Never wonder why your taxes are so high.

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

AUSTIN MAN goes back to the same victim twice in five days. He steals booze, meat sticks, and chips, damages property, and trespasses.

Djumiel Wilkins picked up five new cases from Sept. 21 to Sept. 25: two thefts with prior theft convictions, two criminal trespasses, and one criminal mischief. A judge ordered him to stay away from the victim and from three addresses on West MLK, Guadalupe, and West 15th, and granted an emergency protective order.

Last year, he was arrested for trespassing at the 7-Eleven on Congress Avenue. County Attorney Delia Garza's office declined the case. Then he trespassed on West MLK, and that was dismissed. Then he was arrested for trespassing at a home or shelter, and he was let out of jail with time served.

[Homeless DOGE ATX @HDOGEATX]

The ultimate goal of Jose Garza and Delia Garza for Travis Co. is this:

1. Decriminalize non-violent crime like theft, trespass, and drugs.

2. Punish any use of force by the police

3. Lower incarceration for people of color

Jose and Delia make every charging decision of all felonies and misdemeanors in the county. They have total control of who and what gets prosecuted.

[Austin Reform @austinreforms]

Light rail to the airport sounds fun; we believed in it once. We voted for it.

We, like you, were also lied to, and had our taxes increased 30%.

Overall, we have seen that the city and its agencies are incapable of managing projects like this.

Case in point: taxpayer money is actively being taken from ATP and given to socialist organizations — in the millions.

The city and its stewards can’t be trusted. I wish they could be.

…in closing, do we really need to be investing in legacy transit projects — when we are leading the world in new transit innovation?

[austin @paidforbyaustin]

Austin, as she parts with us in Jan '27, let's remember our District 1 Council Member:

She voted herself a 40% raise in 2022 (~$83K → $117K). Her salary is now $131,241/yr.
Her husband is an AFD Lieutenant making $100K+. Her Husband's union, Austin Firefighters Public Safety Fund, paid $22,125 in campaign advertising for her.

She voted against designating a 140-yr old Black home as Historic for Eureka Holdings (New York). She approved $100/yr Rent to Six Square. She owns a home inside the Six Square district. Every dollar of AACHD investment, the $3.3M in contracts, flows into property values in her own neighborhood. She owns real estate in the district she's funding with public money.

In 2027, she's out and she will leave with CivShop ATX (her "community development" venture), a speaker profile (Fintech Islands 2024, Barbados, btw who paid for that trip?), a network of funded nonprofits (Six Square, AAUL, ARA) that will hire consultants with exactly her skillset.

A runoff election is scheduled for December 12, 2026 to determine her successor.
Frontrunner to replace her? Amber Goodwin. RECA PAC has already spent $69,000 on the slate that includes her.

[ATX data @data_atx]

Travis county approved $500k for immigrant legal aid with American Gateways yesterday

The judge said they have been giving to American gateways for a while but decided to keep quiet about it because they didn’t want to get sued by Ken Paxton

But that changed last week and now they are increasing the funding

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

Austin is on track to pay over $4 million to an NGO whose strategic plan demands the city “follow through on its formal apology to the Black community with action.”

Government grants make up about two-thirds of Six Square’s revenue. The first goal the city lists for its current contract is keeping Six Square in existence.

What Six Square has put on:
- "Black Minds Matter," a virtual meditation series with Black therapists and "healing practitioners"
- "Beyond the Square," the Big Freedia festival
- "Stay Black and Live," a festival with a "Free Your Mind Symposium Series"
- Grocery deliveries to artists

Its strategic plan calls on the city to "follow through on its formal apology to the Black and African-American community with action," and says "true repair and reconciliation requires sustained investment, policy change, and community-led decision-making."

Austin has paid Six Square $2.87 million since 2017. Its current contract allows up to $1.2 million more through 2030.

The city also subsidizes the group tens of thousands of dollars a year by renting it office space on East 11th Street for $100 a year.

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

Austin's airport gave $1.66 million to an artist for a pile of cinderblocks that it put in the garage walkway. Now it’s preparing to demolish the garage and will remove it, claiming it has nowhere to display or store it on the airport's 4,200 acres.

A second piece on the list for removal is a set of concrete sculptures from 1999, which the artist said he doesn’t want to take back.

The airport's expansion includes tens of millions of dollars in new public art by dozens of artists.

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

City of Austin gives the Austin Film Society two massive handouts:

1. $22 million in cash
2. City property worth at least $29.8 million, for just $100 a year in rent

The Film Society then rents that property to film and TV productions and collects millions in rent.

Next week, the City Council votes on giving it $1.2 million more.

The Film Society says its mission includes “actively dismantle the structural racism, sexism and other bias in the screen industries.”

It has $10.9 million in net assets.

[Chris Harris @chrisharris904]

It was never about a political party. It was about understanding why what is occurring in the street, and the courts, was happening.
Why few knew about it. How to shine a light on it, so others can see it for themselves, and judge it for themselves.
As it turns out, that process appeared to be incredibly difficult to do for an everyday person...perhaps on purpose.

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

AUSTIN MAN gets arrested for robbery, assaulting a cop, and having contraband inside a jail, and prosecutors keep letting him walk.

Karahn Burden has 16 criminal cases in two years, yet keeps avoiding felony conviction.

He was arrested for robbery in December 2025, and DA Jose Garza's office filed no charges. It was his second robbery arrest in 16 months to end that way.

When he assaulted a police officer, the felony was knocked down to a misdemeanor.

He was caught with a prohibited item inside a correctional facility, and no charges were filed.

Three felony drug arrests, including one in a drug-free zone, ended with no charges.

In September he was arrested for trespassing at a 7-Eleven. The court's release plan said to call the mental health team, and if he didn't qualify, to hand him a bus pass. Eight days later he was arrested with meth.

On Oct. 19 he was booked again, this time for theft with two prior theft convictions.

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

AUSTIN WOMAN skips court, forfeits her bond, and prosecutors drop the case anyway.

Marie Hefley was arrested for trespassing at the Texas Capitol. She stopped showing up to court, and the judge forfeited her bond. Then the case was dismissed.

She has 13 cases since October 2024, nearly all of them along Congress Ave downtown.

She has been arrested for trespassing eight times. County Attorney Delia Garza's office declined three of those cases and dismissed three more.

She has been arrested twice with meth. DA Jose Garza's office filed no charges either time. A third meth felony was pleaded down to a misdemeanor "attempt."

She was convicted of causing at least $750 in damage at the Freebirds on South Congress and got 60 days.

On Sept. 30, she allegedly assaulted someone outside Urban Wine and Liquor on Congress. She bonded out with orders to stay away from the store. Four days later she was arrested for trespassing again.

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

People with low impulse control and more tendencies to commit crime need swift, certain consequences to learn that actions have consequences.

Austin’s prosecutors and judges gave Bruce Williams 119 tries. He got ridiculously short sentences, rejected charges and a bus pass so he can go back to his favorite hangout spot he was already banned from.

Finally he messed with the wrong person and was killed.

Being soft on crime is not compassionate.

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

Austin will pay $3 million to decorate its new garbage truck yard.

The plan is to pay artists:
- $1.8 million for the garage façade
- $600,000 for five sculptures
- $300,000 for two murals on water cisterns
- $300,000 for a "suspended 3D artwork" over the lobby's staircase

Next week, Council votes on the $300,000 hanging piece by Carlyn Ray, a Dallas glass artist.

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

AUSTIN MAN joins a masked crew that ambushes a man over his gold jewelry and shoots him dead in a North Austin parking lot. Before police even caught him, prosecutors had dropped his capital murder charge.

In August 2025, Miguel Mondragon was out at a sports bar (La Toxika). A former bartender, fired for stealing wallets from customers, picked him as a target because of his gold jewelry. When he left, the crew followed him.

Two cars boxed in his pickup in the La Michoacana Market lot, and masked gunmen walked up. Mondragon ran and was shot in the leg. Surveillance video shows him crawling through the grass until he stopped moving. The crew took his watch, phone, and cash.

Franklyn Zeledon was one of the masked gunmen, according to co-defendants.

All six suspects were charged with capital murder. Five of those charges were knocked down to aggravated robbery, Zeledon's included. His was reduced in October 2025, while he was still a fugitive. Another suspect was out of jail 11 days after his arrest.

Zeledon was on the run for 14 months before he was arrested last month in Montgomery County.

He has an ICE hold.

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

Austin is paying $1.3 million to advertise its convention center on a local PBS TV show.

The original convention center, which cost $145 million to build, was demolished last year and is being rebuilt for $5.6 billion.

The ad money goes to KLRU, which will give the city department a 15-second “sponsor acknowledgment” on both sides of the show, and a the convention center department’s logo on the ACL webpage.

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

Austin's council member José Chito Vela suggests Austin's light rail project -- which will cost $8.2 billion and cut regional driving by 0.044% and is regarded by transportation experts as the biggest transportation boondoggle in the country -- is likely to move forward.

[Jen Robichaux @JenRobichaux]

Austin, you just voted away our right to vote on revenue bonds because of the misleading ballot language on Prop J.

Did any voters see the drafts of the charter amendments before voting on them? Because the city didn't post them to the voter information dashboards.

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

AUSTIN MAN, a registered sex offender with at least two prior indecent exposure convictions, got caught exposing himself again. Prosecutors dropped that case and 11 more. Three months later he was charged with assaulting a security guard at a Rainey Street bar. A judge cut his bond to $1, he skipped court, and then he was arrested for failing to register as a sex offender again.

Howard Turner was arrested for indecent exposure in October 2024. Then came a string of trespassing cases. On Christmas Eve he was arrested for trespassing and theft, and four days later he was arrested for both again. He failed to register as a sex offender twice in one week. He ran from police, and DA Jose Garza's office filed no charges.

A judge found him incompetent to stand trial. Eleven months later, a judge ruled he was competent again. That same day, Garza's office dismissed the indecent exposure case and both sex offender registration felonies. County Attorney Delia Garza dropped the rest two days later.

In May, police say, he attacked a security officer at Bangers. In September a judge cut his bond from $7,500 to $1. He skipped his next court date.

Last month he was arrested again for failing to register as a sex offender.

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

Austin voters rejected Prop I, so the city won’t have an independent audit. The spending will go unchecked.

Mayor Kirk Watson opposed the audit, as did the city workers’ union, and the NGOs that live on city money.

Now the only people auditing the city are independent journalists on X.