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Bill Worsham: Project Connect
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Jun 5, 2025
Candidate for Austin City Council, District 10. Talk to the 7/28/14 meeting of Texans for Accountable Government at Sherlock's in Austin, Texas.
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am I'm so sorry Bill Bill waram thank
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you so much for being
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here thank you Justin answered to a lot
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worse I appreciate the fact that youall
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had me last year or last month seems
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like last year we've been doing a lot um
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if Compact and connected and Project
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Connect hasn't gotten your attention yet
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then you haven't been paying attention
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and I think the people in this room
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probably have been paying attention but
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this is about to get serious folks and
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regardless of what happens next Thursday
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I would expect a 7 to nothing unanimous
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vote in favor of putting it on the
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ballot you just need to plan for that
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but um you know there there are
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candidates that appreciate the fact that
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we are fed up with the status quo that
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traffic and taxes are the two primary
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issues that we have in this town right
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now there are many others that follow
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you know if you start with those but
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we're going to stay on message we're
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going to talk about those things and
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we're going to be fighting against this
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rail project uh for all of the reasons
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that you've heard and and many others
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but uh there are a number of candidates
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that are against this there are a number
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of candidates that are um that are going
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to change the way things are done at the
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city level all of us need your help
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and we are excited about giving you guys
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that opportunity uh whether you're in a
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district that uh that has a good
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candidate that that meets this test or
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not we will be representing you and uh
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my name is Bill Worsham I'm running in
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District 10 uh we can use Facebook likes
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we can use volunteers uh we can use all
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the help we can get and there are many
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of us that are going to be on this city
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council for you and I don't see Project
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Connect going anywhere it for sure won't
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go anywhere if those of us that are
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running against it get all in the csil
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no matter what
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yay it's a massive safy issue downtown
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because not only do Project Connect Go
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pass the existing fire station and block
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the uh fire trucks ambulances from from
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um you know quickly eving to an
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emergency it's going to cross 6th
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Street and we all know that Sixth Street
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closed off is way uh on the weekend so
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there's guaranteed going to be a number
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of train pedestrian collisions if this
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thing gets built along with during the
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uh the football game since the Align
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goes right past the football stadi we
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have a bunch of uh freshman and
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sophomores that come from towns that
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don't have this thing which is pretty
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much most of Texas got probably run
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across and get injured as well any
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questions for uh
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bill thank you's a question here's a
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question yeah I think it's clear that
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most people don't want the railroad
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that's why they coupled it with the road
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bond that we do need absolutely is there
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any way to separate
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them um yeah it's a very easy way to
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separate them the city council could
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choose to do it they're not going to
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choose to separate I mean a real reason
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they're not going to separate they put
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them together that's correct um and and
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we're not going to change their mind but
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what's important is that we we show
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everybody else that's not GNA vote seven
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to nothing on on the at the council
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meeting show everybody else how strong
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the opposition is um you know they they
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think that $400 Million worth of Roads
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many of which are actually
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uh Bridges and things that are actually
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built for the train uh so don't look
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that for you but they're thinking that
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they can uh that they can Ransom our
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roads to to get the train pushed through
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and we just need to not take debate
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don't worry about what they're trying to
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add in we have time for one more
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question more of a comment than a
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question there actually is a legal
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precedent justification for forcing the
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separation of rail from road but simply
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the reality is there's not enough time
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to Mount Legal argument and put it
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forward to make that happen that'll
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probably have have to happen after the
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fact your leadership background and
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accomplishments that we make you really
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well let me thank you for that let me
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just give you the short version I think
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a lot of our issues are infrastructure
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related right now uh I'm a 25-year
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engineering project and program manager
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and have had uh much experience down on
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the coast dealing with uh uh I guess
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you'd say the intersection of private
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property rights public beach access
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rights and natural resources as as it
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happens on eroding beaches on the Texas
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coast uh I think that's a pretty that's
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very good Training for what we're going
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to be faced with I am willing to stand
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up to uh into the face of of much
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opposition I don't tell everybody this
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but I've also been a basketball referee
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for 20 years so I know a little bit
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about dis resolution on the Fly and I
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know all about the passion of parents in
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the stands thank you than you so much
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Bill
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wor okay so now pretty Interactive
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