Steve Adler.

We have our first response on the Art Acevedo question, from the Steve Adler campaign.

Since I didn’t state I would be publishing the replies here in my original email, I don’t feel comfortable doing so now. But I can summarize: as you might have guessed, it was the usual politician glurge.

  • The City Council doesn’t hire or fire the police chief, the city manager does. (Perhaps so, Steve, but if the city council says they want the chief gone, I’m pretty sure the city manager takes notice.)
  • Police officers need to be held accountable. (Also, apple pie and motherhood are good things.)
  • “…we need to work diligently to improvement relations between them and the public”.
  • Gratuitous Ferguson reference.
  • Steve Adler has spent much of his life fighting discrimination as a civil rights lawyer yadda yadda yadda.

Not very satisfying.

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2 Responses to “Steve Adler.”

  1. roadgeek says:
    December 9, 2014 at 9:49 pm

    My wife and I know so little about Steve Adler. So very, very little. But we both know one thing, and that one thing is quite enough.

    He’s not Mike Martinez.

  2. stainles says:
    December 11, 2014 at 6:05 pm

    I agree, roadgeek. Not being Mike Martinez is a great advantage.

    But I don’t know: I keep thinking about that Schlock Mercenary line, “The enemy of my enemy is my enemies enemy. Nothing more, nothing less.”

    Is it possible that Steve Adler and Mike Martinez are basically two sides of the same Austin Chronicle coin?