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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sophisticated things that the industry really needs, and that we don't have. We're not an industrial town, we haven't done much of that sort of thing. We don't have enough people that know how to do those things, and consequently we are losing jobs and subsequently we're losing business.
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Jury verdicts became highly suspect and were frequently overturned for a variety of ever-expanding reasons, ... Jury assessments were wiped out by increasingly harsher standards for mental anguish and punitive standards.
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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,
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I think it is legitimate to assume we're not talking about next week they're going to go home, ... The city of New Orleans is effectively closed.
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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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or at least give us the money to do it.
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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 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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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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From the outside, it may look like a fairly seamless operation, ... but the truth is, that's not true.
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I don't know that the re-branding campaign is a done deal, ... The council, including myself, had some concerns about it. It could be quite tawdry.
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If (Tagliabue) was here today, he could not help but be impressed, ... I don't know if he would change his mind (about calling San Antonio a small market), but I think he would be impressed.
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We are going to be immensely helped from having gone through this process two weeks ago,
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Financial services may soon be the largest industry in San Antonio,