Talk:Austin City Council

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Austin City Council District 1 was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 25 October 2024 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Austin City Council. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Sources for political party

Given that the city council elections are non-partisan, I think sources should be provided for the political affiliation of each council member. Aurora_{(User:Horkak)} (talk) 02:54, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

District Map?

I believe that given the multiple references to the districts it might be helpful to add a district map. --Non-Clever Name (talk) 13:40, 30 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Democratic Socialists of America label

I've noticed that an editor with no user profile keeps editing this page to show Democratic Socialists of America as a separate political party. This is inconsistent with other Wikipedia pages for bodies of government with DSA members such as United States House of Representatives, New York City Council, and California State Assembly, which contain three members, one member, and three members respectively. I think this distinction is only relevant when a person has specifically affiliated with the DSA as a political party, not when their primary affiliation is with the Democratic Party, as is the case here. Otherwise, the DSA is a membership club like any other political organization. If it must be on the article, a council member's DSA affiliation can be listed on the tab for their District. Wheresmything (talk) 20:56, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Respectfully, I disagree. DSA has a very specific party-style orientation within the Democratic Party that is unlike other membership organizations. An alliance, or "side" within the Democratic Party, i.e. Democratic Party (Democratic Socialists of America) is the correct representation of a DSA elected.

See "Consensus Resolution Amendment I: Act Like an Independent Party" that was passed at the 2023 convention on page 73: https://s3.amazonaws.com/actionkit-dsausa/images/2023_DSA_Convention_Results.pdf

DSA doesn't use it own ballot line, because America doesn't allow for it strategically - but we act like a party as much as possible within the Democratic Party. A side of an alliance is the best way to describe it. Reesericdotci (talk) 22:31, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mike also actively affiliates with DSA, was endorsed nationally, and Mike Siegel get out the vote events were hosted with DSA. Reesericdotci (talk) 22:32, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A DSA flip from an establishment Democrat also very notable in a way "Democratic hold" doesn't convey. Reesericdotci (talk) 22:34, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The specific politics of the elected official separate from regular democrats could be left to their own article if necessary or just to other sources. Natalieeeeeee (talk) 01:18, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cool but yall aren’t a party. Other DSA-connected dems on Wikipedia are not marked Dem/DSA. We do not have the congress broken up between the progressive caucus and blue dog caucus cause they are not parties, they are factions.

——- Natalieeeeeee (talk) 01:15, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There's a major difference between a caucus that works entirely within the Democratic Party, and an organization with a party structure that uses a Democratic ballot line. I think that there's a strong case to be made that other DSAers should be marked that way, but I only maintain this and a few other pages. Reesericdotci (talk) 14:54, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]