I respectfully have to agree with Mike here. A great majority of people whose opinion I trust (based on prior track record) believed that this lawsuit was an overreach doomed to failure. Y'all should have declared victory after you got the big box ordinance passed and the minor site plan concessions from Wal-mart. That would have been a solid building block for future battles. Instead, your group picked a fight it couldn't win and got hammered. The way things are now, I don't see how RG4N or its most vocal leadership can carry any credibility into future disputes. This doesn't mean your members shouldn't still organize, just that they shouldn't do it under the RG4N banner.

Of course, the most disappointing aspect of all this to me is that the two most broad-based grassroots efforts (RG4N and the SOS/ACLU props) of recent years have gone down in flames, both due to overreach and poor tactical decisions. We need to come together as a community and figure out how to work within the system to protect the Austin we all hold dear.