Doug Greco Statement on Today’s Federal Court Decision

For Immediate Release

While the court hasn’t yet decided on the constitutionality of this rule which protects wealthy, self-funded candidates and vengeful incumbents like the Mayor who raised nearly half his money ($420,00) from just 3 affluent West Austin zip codes, our focus has been running a grassroots campaign for working families and making Watson answer for his guilt in Austin’s skyrocketing cost of living since he was first elected mayor in 1997. I’m a community organizer and former AISD teacher running a grassroots fundraising campaign from colleagues, friends and family, while the PAC supporting Watson, a billionaires’ mayor, just reported hundreds of thousands in donations almost exclusively from developers, private equity, and once again Bryan Sheffield, an oil and gas billionaire and Trump/Abbott financier.