For Immediate
Release
Dec. 30, 2005
PRECINCT 2
CHALLENGER
SARAH
ECKHARDT FILES
FOR TRAVIS
COUNTY COMMISSIONER’S SEAT
Candidate
Says ‘Travis County Can Do Better’
(AUSTIN, TX)
— Attorney Sarah Eckhardt of Austin on Friday filed an
application for a place on the ballot in the Democratic
Primary race for the Precinct 2 seat on the Travis County
Commissioners Court.
The primary
will be March 7, 2006.
Eckhardt has
early endorsements from the Travis County Sheriff’s Officers
Association, the Travis County Sheriffs’ Law Enforcement
Officers Association, and People for Efficient
Transportation.
Brett Spicer
of the TCSLEOA calls Eckhardt an “awesome candidate, who
will be a good steward of taxpayer funds and who understands
the importance of a ‘comprehensive’ public safety program.”
She “understands what good government is,” he says. “I think
it’s time for a change.”
In addition
to public safety, Eckhardt cites transportation, land use
and access to emergency health care as planks in a platform
she believes concerned citizens will support.
She says
federal and state governments are passing on to regional
government the responsibilities for the environment,
transportation, health and safety. Additionally, she says
private interests are jockeying for participation in the
provision of governmental services such as transportation
projects and the collection of delinquent taxes.
“Now more
than ever,” Eckhardt says, “we must stand up and shape our
future or have our future decided for us. We need good
government that anticipates our needs as a community and
implements regional solutions for the best interest of the
whole community.”
Eckhardt, 41,
earned a master’s degree from the University of Texas LBJ
School of Public Affairs and a degree from the University of
Texas School of Law and served as a prosecutor in the Travis
County Attorney’s Office for eight years (1998-2005). She
and her husband, attorney Kurt Sauer, have two children. Her
father, the late U.S. Congressman Bob Eckhardt of Houston,
was born and raised in Austin; her mother is Austin resident
and memoirist Nadine Eckhardt, who worked in the Texas
Legislature and for Lyndon Baines Johnson during his U.S.
Senate years.
For additional information, visit
www.saraheckhardt.com.
Media
Contact: Jill McGuckin, 512.217.9404 cell; jill@mcguckinpr.com
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