For Immediate
Release
Dec. 17, 2005
AUSTIN
ATTORNEY SARAH ECKHARDT
ANNOUNCES
RUN FOR PRECINCT 2
TRAVIS
COUNTY COMMISSIONER’S SEAT
Candidate Says ‘Travis County Can Do Better’
(AUSTIN,
TX) — Attorney Sarah Eckhardt of Austin has announced that
she is running for the Precinct 2 seat on the Travis County
Commissioners Court in the March 2006 primary.
Eckhardt,
whose roots run deep in Central Texas history, announced her
candidacy during a press conference at 2 p.m. Saturday,
December 17, at the corner of MoPac Expressway and Grande
Street in North Austin. She was joined by dozens of
supporters, family members and friends.
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 State
Legislature and for Lyndon Baines Johnson during his U.S.
Senate years.
“I am
running,” Eckhardt says, “because my parents instilled in me
an admiration for what good government can do for all of us.
I was taught good government comes from listening to the
people most directly involved in an issue while never
forgetting those who cannot speak for themselves. Elected
office is not a career but a temporary trust lent out to one
among us willing to stand up for all of us.”
The
location Eckhardt chose for her announcement is the site of
tollbooths under construction as part of a plan to implement
tollroads throughout the county, a plan Eckhardt says will
not relieve traffic problems or provide the best manner of
funding traffic solutions.
The
transportation issue is just one of Eckhardt’s concerns —
along with land use, health care and public safety — that
has become a plank in a political platform she is confident
that concerned voters can get behind.
She says
federal and state government is 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 UT 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.
Eckhardt
kicks off her campaign with endorsements from both the
Travis County Sheriff’s Officers Association and the Travis
County Sheriff’s Law Enforcement Officers Association.
On
Dec. 1, 2005, Eckhardt honored her late father with a
fund-raiser, co-hosted by Sissy Farenthold, for The
Committee on Texas Natural Resources to note his
environmental impact as a member of the Texas Legislature
and the U.S. House of Representatives, such as authoring the
Open Beaches Bill and championing the creation of the Big
Thicket National Preserve.
For more
information, visit
www.saraheckhardt.com.
Contact:
Jill
McGuckin, 512.217.9404 cell; jill@mcguckinpr.com
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