Thursday, May 13, 2021 Report: San Antonio s police union spent $600,000 on Prop B fight, but that s not clear from its filings Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Thu, May 13, 2021 at 10:24 AM click to enlarge Courtesy Photo / Fix SAPD Opponents of Fix SAPD s petition drive hold up signs at a polling site where volunteers collected signatures last fall. San Antonio’s police union spent six times more than previously thought to fight back Proposition B, the ballot measure that would have stripped it of collective bargaining powers, an The union spent more than $600,000 to battle Prop B, according to filings that police-reform activists shared with the daily. That stands in contrast to the roughly $100,000 previously reported by loc
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Ananda Tomas, from left, deputy director of Fix SAPD, Michelle Tremillo, executive director of Texas Organizing Project, and Oji Martin, co-founder of Fix SAPD, react to early voting numbers during a watch party with Fix SAPD and supporters of Proposition B at The Friendly Spot in San Antonio on May 1, 2021.Lisa Krantz, Staff / Staff photographer
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Ananda Tomas, from left, deputy director of Fix SAPD, Michelle Tremillo, executive director of Texas Organizing Project, and Oji Martin, co-founder of Fix SAPD, react to early voting numbers during a watch party with Fix SAPD and supporters of Proposition B at The Friendly Spot in San Antonio on May 1, 2021.Lisa Krantz, Staff / Staff photographer
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SAN ANTONIO – After a contentious campaign that drew record numbers of San Antonio voters to the polls, Proposition B but only just.
The ballot measure to strip San Antonio police officers of their collective bargaining power fell short by 3,475 a 2.3% margin. To Fix SAPD, the group that circulated the petition to get the issue onto the ballot, that slim defeat shows “the community is ready for change.”
“Those 3,000 votes really comes down to a matter of resources and being able to reach folks,” said Deputy Director Ananda Tomas. “We are a brand-new, grassroots organization - we haven’t even hit our one-year anniversary yet - going against an established political machine, which is the San Antonio Police Officers Association.”