State Senator Dawn Buckingham (R - Austin) today called on Austin Mayor Steve Adler to resign. Adler was caught making a video from Cabo San Lucas, Mexico in which he urged citizens of Austin to "stay home." The video has received international attention.
In a Facebook post, printed below in full, Buckingham, who was re-elected last month, excoriates the Democrat mayor, saying, "If you're going to preach to your constituents that their families aren't worth seeing while jetting off with your own inner circle to Mexico, your priority is clearly no longer the people of Austin."
"It's time for Mayor Adler to resign.
"Mayor Adler has spent months pushing daily videos and tweets out to Austin residents telling them to stay home. As small businesses in his own city collapse, and homeless encampments appear on ever more street corners, Mayor Adler hosted an in person wedding and then hopped on a private jet for a Cabo vacation. Worse than this sort of "holier than thou" attitude, Mayor Adler had the gall to record a message telling Austin citizens to stay home around the Thanksgiving holiday from his vacation timeshare in Mexico.
The Mayor should resign. If you're going to preach to your constituents that their families aren't worth seeing while jetting off with your own inner circle to Mexico, your priority is clearly no longer the people of Austin. I urge him to quit the job he clearly no longer respects so he can spend all the time he wants on vacation. Rumor has it Matthew McConaughey could step up to provide the kind of unifying leadership the City of Austin so clearly lacks."
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