While I don't believe Kim is any way responsible, the conservatives in Austin chose to stay on the sidelines in this election until launching a smear campaign against Clarke. How is a vote for Kim a vote against divisive politics?
 

The smear campaign against Margot was shameful, unfair and a classic example of a positional and divisive mentality that makes it difficult to get anything done in Austin. The Clarke campaign chose to respond to those attacks in a tone that escalates that very mentality: those that issued the smears were "exremist attack dogs" and ALL developers, road bulders, real estate professionals (whether or not they endorsed the attacks), were also extremists (or at the very least aligned with them). Taking that mentality into the City Council Chambers would be unproductive. To be an effective City Council member, Margot would have had to work with closely these very people, a situation made much more difficult by the reactionary and divisive tone her campaign assumed in the responses.