Chronicle 1999. Sound familiar? Read this Ken Rigsbee, Dwayne Dow and Donald Abrams
Sign of Maturity
Dear Editor:
I am a 20-year-old student at ACC. I recently have become politically active and in the recent election I have volunteered my time and services to Austin Parks '98. The campaign consisted of door-to-door flyering and the posting of bond signs.
I live in precinct 304, which happens to be Circle C Ranch (Bradley Development). A few weeks before election day I started putting signs up in front of the neighborhood pool.
After the first sign went up, every other day I was putting another one up in the same spot. Somebody was taking them down every time I put one up (only the bond sign, no other), but I persisted. Election day came and the sign that I had staked the day before was gone. I went home and took the only sign I had remaining from my yard and proceeded to stick it where the sun don't shine. I voted immediately afterward and as soon as I drove by again, the sign had been stripped one last time.
This time I caught the culprit. It was a Circle C PAC member. There were four of them, all standing within 15 feet of where the sign once stood, waving their arms and their signs. Laying next to their water bottles and other personal belongings was our city's bonds sign. I then halted immediately and jumped out of my vehicle with pen and paper hungry for names. The moment I had stopped, one of the PAC members began pacing quickly away from me, so I approached the first lady who was reserved and reluctant to say anything to me, claiming she had just arrived. I then walked up to the man I saw walking away from me but he tried to refuse to talk with me. When I began to speak of the illegality of this he became hostile and asked me if I wanted to ''go at it'' with him. I walked away, determined to get names. I asked a third man; he almost immediately began telling me to go f___ myself and to leave him the f___ alone. At this time I furiously drove myself home and grabbed camera and film and returned to document the crime scene. Afterward I spent the drive to class asking myself repetitively if maturity really did come with age. I came to the conclusion that children I have watched over were more evolved than this group of ''higher-class individuals.''
I had hoped that I could live in a world or at least a neighborhood where politics could be played in the arena of the polls by people who are not only physically 18 but also mentally, not by the petty, sign-stealing, middle-aged infants that I am surrounded by.
Michael Cavazos
This years behavior:
http://www.news8austin.com/content/your_news/Default.asp?SecID=278&ArID=97081
Sign of Maturity
Dear Editor:
I am a 20-year-old student at ACC. I recently have become politically active and in the recent election I have volunteered my time and services to Austin Parks '98. The campaign consisted of door-to-door flyering and the posting of bond signs.
I live in precinct 304, which happens to be Circle C Ranch (Bradley Development). A few weeks before election day I started putting signs up in front of the neighborhood pool.
After the first sign went up, every other day I was putting another one up in the same spot. Somebody was taking them down every time I put one up (only the bond sign, no other), but I persisted. Election day came and the sign that I had staked the day before was gone. I went home and took the only sign I had remaining from my yard and proceeded to stick it where the sun don't shine. I voted immediately afterward and as soon as I drove by again, the sign had been stripped one last time.
This time I caught the culprit. It was a Circle C PAC member. There were four of them, all standing within 15 feet of where the sign once stood, waving their arms and their signs. Laying next to their water bottles and other personal belongings was our city's bonds sign. I then halted immediately and jumped out of my vehicle with pen and paper hungry for names. The moment I had stopped, one of the PAC members began pacing quickly away from me, so I approached the first lady who was reserved and reluctant to say anything to me, claiming she had just arrived. I then walked up to the man I saw walking away from me but he tried to refuse to talk with me. When I began to speak of the illegality of this he became hostile and asked me if I wanted to ''go at it'' with him. I walked away, determined to get names. I asked a third man; he almost immediately began telling me to go f___ myself and to leave him the f___ alone. At this time I furiously drove myself home and grabbed camera and film and returned to document the crime scene. Afterward I spent the drive to class asking myself repetitively if maturity really did come with age. I came to the conclusion that children I have watched over were more evolved than this group of ''higher-class individuals.''
I had hoped that I could live in a world or at least a neighborhood where politics could be played in the arena of the polls by people who are not only physically 18 but also mentally, not by the petty, sign-stealing, middle-aged infants that I am surrounded by.
Michael Cavazos
This years behavior:
http://www.news8austin.com/content/your_news/Default.asp?SecID=278&ArID=97081
