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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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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It would give us the best linear park in the United States and increase the drawing power of the river ... that would make this City even greater.
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there's probably been a bit of racism since the first time one person looked at another person that didn't look like them.
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San Antonio is going through a metamorphosis from a small border village to a big city.
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We are going to be immensely helped from having gone through this process two weeks ago,
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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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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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I would like to see a more beautiful San Antonio. It's important to a city, and to individuals,
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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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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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From the outside, it may look like a fairly seamless operation, ... but the truth is, that's not true.
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Nobody is tied to a special interest, none that I can discern, which means they are all independent, and that is so important to forming a team, because if you have somebody who is sold out to a special interest they're never going to get along.
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Nelson and I are talking or being together three and four times a day. Almost every decision has been made in conjunction with the county and Nelson.
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My guess is Bank of America will come here,