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Best City Department
Best Community Program
Best Councilmember
Best Effort To Control Pollution/Improve The Environment
Best Lobbyist/Consultant
Best Local Eccentric
Best Local Scandal
Best Local Visionary
Best Public Servant
Best Rumor
Best Texas Legislator
Best Public Servant
Ann Richards
Please reissue this sentiment when that burning Bush comes banging.
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Previous Winners
1998:
Kirk Watson
1997:
Mike Denton
1996:
David Davis
1995:
Mayor Bruce Todd
1993:
Ann Richards
1991:
Ann Richards
1990:
Max Nofziger
Best City Department
Austin Police Department
Best Community Program
Recycling
Best Councilmember
Max Nofziger
Best Effort To Control Pollution/Improve The Environment
Save Our Springs Alliance
Best Lobbyist/Consultant
Robert Johnson
Best Local Eccentric
Carl Hickerson-Bull
Best Local Scandal
Brackenridge Hospital (lack of) Accounting
Best Local Visionary
Daryl Slusher
Best Rumor
Ann Richards Is Gay
Best Texas Legislator
Glen Maxey