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Speakers:

David Butts - Political Consultant
Wayne Slater - Senior Political Writer, Dallas Morning News
Discussion moderated by Jim Walker - Executive Director, Central Texas Sustainability Indicators Project

Summary:

What does the outcome of the 2008 Presidential Race mean to Central Texas and how might it impact Austin’s upcoming elections? If all politics is local - as former U.S. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill auggested - how do national issues such as the Wall Street bailout, the War in Iraq, and immigration filter into Austin’s pressing topics of infrastructure and transit systems, alternative energy development, and a healthy social and cultural economy?

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References from the Discussion:

Wayne Slater columns at The Dallas Morning News
Central Texas Sustainability Indicators Project
Map of electoral shifts between the 2004 and 2008 elections

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