Phil Hardberger
Phil Hardberger
Phillip Duane "Phil" Hardbergeris a former mayor of San Antonio, Texas. He took office in June 2005. He is a Democrat; however, as with all mayoral, city council, and school board positions in Texas, Hardberger was elected on a non-partisan ballot...
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From the outside, it may look like a fairly seamless operation, ... but the truth is, that's not true.
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I would like to see a more beautiful San Antonio. It's important to a city, and to individuals,
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And clearly there are people with racist thoughts,
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Financial services may soon be the largest industry in San Antonio,
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I do think that we will be totally ready for these evacuees, or as ready as we can be,
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or at least give us the money to do it.
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The great thing about a vibrant art scene ... is that it makes you a smarter city. Smarter cities get ahead in this world. More creative cities get ahead in this world. ... If you're not on the cutting edge, you're falling behind,
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We intend to welcome these people with open arms and try to give them some dignity that these circumstances have taken away from them, ... We will not fail to respond the way we would want to be responded to.
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We're not as strong in the media market as we could be because San Antonio sits off by itself, it's not in the middle of a metropolitan area. I know (with) the National League, that carries a lot of water.
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Whatever we need to do, we're going to do, ... We're not going to wait for federal dollars to come in, we're going to write whatever checks that need to be written right now.
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We are going to be immensely helped from having gone through this process two weeks ago,
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This year's general-fund revenue, paid for by property-tax revenues, fines, fees and City Public Service income is $728 million. Last year was $620 million, which is (about) a 17 percent increase over last year. Phil's not doing anything different than what the rest of them (former mayors) do. That money comes from taxpayers' pockets.
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We're not going to wait for federal dollars to arrive, ... We're going to go ahead and write whatever checks need to be written right now to take care of these people and let them know that people in San Antonio love them.
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We are going to pay more than we ever have for a city manager, but we have a lot more San Antonio than we've ever had, too,