I like Ted. He's the "internet candidate" who may be way ahead of his time. His plans for setting up neighborhood telecommuting centers make sense and he's behind efforts to enhance Austin's status as the most internet connected place on the planet.

eply-To: Ted Kircher mailto:kircher@realtime.com Subject: Re: Good Luck on May 3rd To: George Cummings mailto:G-Cummings@msn.com cc: AAMA mailto:aama@eden.com EFF mailto:eff-austin@io.com AustinPlan mailto:ausplan@main1.main.org George, I really appreciate your note. I hope that the minimum outcome of this election is a realization that the high tech community can and should be involved in the issues - including taking 'votes' (Mike Byrnes has found some technology to do this electronically) that can be sent to the City Council and the various media - *before* they formally vote. The MM and software industry in general should be the bow wave of the economic growth of Austin, and for our sake as well as all citizens, we would be remiss by not using our influence to the fullest. Also, we should have something like the MAIN web-raisings to get all Neighborhood Associations (NA) on-line - with storage allocated by the Austin City Connection along with an Internet account to allow for updating their web pages. This would be a minimal cost to the city - or, better yet, each NA could cover the cost of around $100/year. This also means using KVET, ACAC, ... on a *continual* basis to raise the ambient level of understanding of all citizens that we are not talking about way out stuff if Austin is to continue to be near the front of the pack in high tech as we enter the 21th century. PS: If I get elected, there will be *no* closed doors, and I will *expect citizens to develop solutions* as well as 'vote' on the major issues. Btw, if no candidate gets a majority on May 3rd, then the two top vote getters will have another go at the end of May. The more votes I get, the stronger will be *our* position to expect the two leading candidates to listen to *our* views. Ted Candidate for Mayor of Austin http://ReadThis.com/Ted4Mayor On May 1st, George Cummings wrote: Ted, Sorry I've been so lame at helping with your campaign, (weak excuse of swamp of alligators with our MM projects). I have been talking up your issues with lots of friends and several discussions with Sammy (KVET). I see him or talk to him several times a week (cd extra client). I just wanted you to know I truly appreciate your effort, and I know it has made all the candidates and public much more aware of where Austin -- should and could be headed -- but time will tell which way we go. Your ideas of community education via net/neighbor hood centers is right on target. No matter what happens tomorrow, I would like aama to consider a special area added to the web site where every issue council votes on and especially those that effect our industry the voting record is posted by council member so that at every election from now on it will be easy for aama or any interested party to see exactly how or elected officials on every issue. Again good luck later gc

AUSTIN MAYOR 100% Precincts Reporting KIRK WATSON 48% RONNEY REYNOLDS 40% MICHAEL "MAX" NOFZIGER 10% THEODORE KIRCHER .3% JOHN JOHNSON .2% JENNIFER GALE .3% BLANE BECKER .6%

hhops that got messed up! Kirk and Ronny in a runoff. Then Max. Then Ted. Four folks tailed ted.

It's a brand new election race and there are 6-7 candidates running. I started out building the website for maxformayor.org but then decided I didn't want to align with any candidate. Now I'm building a website called http://www.austinmayor.com which is an impartial forum for all the candidates. I found out that I couldn't do a partisan website for a single candidate, I have an overriding drive to seek out the facts for the entire Mayor's race. A Mayor website needs to be focused and "on message" and very controlled. None of my websites have these characteristics. They are uncontrolled, no holds barred, lay out the truth like it is . . . and that's what I'm doing now.