“The roots of the Texas Constitution are in local self control [and] self determination. So that’s why we have charter cities that have this authority to adopt their own charters and decide their own laws,” said Mike Siegel of Ground Game Texas.
Mike Siegel , political director and co-founder of Ground Game Texas, and Ananda Tomas, executive director of Act 4 SA, hand over four boxes containing more than 38,000 signatures to City Clerk Debbie Racca-Sittre.
“We will be saving money, keeping families together, stopping the unnecessary overcrowding of jails — but most of all, we will be saving lives through these policies,” said Ananda Tomas, executive director of ACT 4 SA, a local police reform advocacy group that launched the petition in October.“We’re ready,” City Clerk Debbie Racca-Sittre said inside City Hall as she and a colleague sealed and time stamped four boxes filled with more than 5,000 pages of petition signatures.
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