Michael Karlis
5 members of metropolis council maintain a press convention final week to precise their displeasure with Metropolis Legal professional Andy Segovia.
San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg’s former marketing campaign supervisor is blaming his one-time boss and Metropolis Supervisor Erik Walsh for making a “clown present” through which 5 council members known as a press convention final week to debate the potential ouster of the town legal professional.
Metropolis Council is assembly in govt session Wednesday to debate the potential of eradicating Metropolis Legal professional Andy Segovia over some members’ allegations that he supplied conflicting and inaccurate authorized recommendation.
Nonetheless, Kelton Morgan, who efficiently ran Nirenberg’s first two mayoral campaigns, informed the Present Segovia is most certainly simply following directions from the mayor and Walsh.
“I am unsure that I put any of this essentially on Andy,” Morgan mentioned. “Apart from he is being informed what to do by Erik and Ron.”
It is value noting that Nirenberg minimize Morgan unfastened in early 2020, changing him with longtime Democratic operative Gilberto Ocañas.
Nirenberg himself was not obtainable for remark Wednesday afternoon.
5 council members, together with District 6’s Melissa Cabello Havrda aired their allegations in opposition to Segovia throughout a Might 9 press convention. They argued that Segovia and Nirenberg refused to permit council to enter govt session final week to debate delicate monetary particulars of the town’s contract negations with the fireplace union.
“The preliminary request for the non-public govt session was as a result of the authorized recommendation we obtained from Andy Segovia was that they needed to occur in govt session,” Cabello Havrda informed the Present this week of her determination to name the presser.
Segovia informed council members they could not meet within the govt session, citing fears of knowledge leaking out and placing the town in a compromised negotiating place with the union.
Council is now scheduled to debate the negotiations publicly throughout Thursday’s A session.
“I am going to inform you, I do not know what they’re making an attempt to debate on Thursday, as a result of there’s solely a lot we will say with out brazenly making an attempt to barter a contract,” Cabello Havrda informed the Present on Monday. “[Our] intention was by no means to barter the contract for the town or the fireplace union. It was to offer course — that is what we had been purported to be doing.”
Political marketing consultant Morgan speculates that Nirenberg and Walsh are instructing Segovia to maintain council out of the discussions. He additionally blamed the mayor for permitting the scenario to be thrashed out in public.
“That is simply extra of Nirenberg being a horrible chief, or not a frontrunner in any respect, and never participating with different council individuals and holding them knowledgeable and glad,” Morgan mentioned.
Segovia’s workplace hasn’t responded to Present’s request for touch upon the rescheduled hearth union dialogue.
Nirenberg has lengthy struggled to grasp metropolis corridor politics, Morgan mentioned, including that he ceaselessly resorts to my-way-or-the-highway ultimatums somewhat than constructing consensus.
The marketing consultant additionally mentioned political positioning for the 2025 mayoral race is taking part in a task within the Metropolis Corridor chaos. District 9 Councilman John Braveness and District 8 Councilman Manny Pelaez have formally introduced their candidacies, whereas Cabello Havrda and District 4’s Adriana Rocha Garcia are additionally mentioned to be mulling runs. “This goes deep. That is seven years of the mayor refusing to forge relationships with any of his colleagues,” Morgan mentioned. “That is additionally 4 individuals on the identical council eager to run for mayor on the identical time — all of those competing agendas and whatnot at play, and the result’s a really public, foolish clown present.”
Morgan mentioned he is not sure why Nirenberg and Walsh need to hold council at midnight concerning the metropolis’s second-largest employment contract. However, he did say Segovia’s considerations about potential leaks are most certainly a load of horseshit.
Cabello Havrda informed the Present her considerations about Segovia and the union negotiations don’t have anything to do with potential mayoral aspirations.
“I keep that something I’ve ever completed sitting on this seat has been for my metropolis,” Cabello Havrda mentioned. “This is not the primary time I’ve raised considerations concerning the metropolis legal professional or these processes or a refusal to stick to what six of us are saying in some instances. But it surely’s the primary time I’ve completed it publicly. This is not a concerted effort to set myself up for a future run. That is what I consider is true for the town.”
Morgan mentioned that there is perhaps some political calculus on Cabello Havrda’s half however added that her public spat with Segovia is unlikely to imply a lot to most voters come election time.
“This is not creating jobs, filling potholes, fixing visitors congestion or placing extra cops on the road,” Morgan mentioned. “In the end, that is inside baseball.”
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