Elevator pitch
My name is Curtis Mueller I’ve been living in San Antonio since 1983 right here in district 4. I’ve spent summers at Lackland and Kelly Air Force Base. I’m a father husband friend and confidant. I am an advocate for most and I try to support people in any way I can.
I’ve done a lot of things in my life. I’ve worked at HEB, West Telemarketing, LULAC, Sears, Hollywood video, and quite a few more.
For my career I’ve been a hospital advocate and a software developer, A crisis hotline operator and a grant manager. I do everything in my power to support sexual assault and family violence programs across the state of Texas.
I’ve lived life with the generosity of the government. I volunteer and donate my time to movements and organizations that I believe in. I’ve been a postman and I’ve delivered mail all over San Antonio. I’m a mentor.
I’m a musician and gamer, film buff and book nerd.
I believe in ethics and transparency in government. I feel that the city should be doing everything in its power to support the citizens.
I believe that homelessness is an epidemic and the best way to cure it is to treat all of the underlying conditions that cause it. Let’s create homes and programs for people who are just houseless. Let’s support the nonprofits that want to offer a shelter but don’t truly have a capacity yet to do that.
I believe public safety is the number one issue. I would look into getting a lot more street lights and cameras out in public, in parks and neighborhoods especially.
I would love the city to find new revenue streams and use the money to lower the tax burden on the population. I personally think it would be ideal to only pay taxes on goods and services. I’d like to see the city actually offer the Internet as a public utility and own it. If you can get the Internet to everybody you can help foster healing and continuing education and just the future in general.
I also believe that a healthy relationship curriculum is needed for high school students. Teach them red flags, body autonomy, declared consent. Let them know that they can opt out of sex at any time. Consent is not the absence of no, but the presence of yes through all facets. You can say you don’t like something.
Sex is treated like a commodity. It always will be because it’s awesome! Teach students to value themselves and each other.
I never took gym in high school because I wasn’t comfortable in my body. I prided (prode?) myself on taking the work program, failing out of it and being assigned to something else. No one I didn’t date in high school saw my penis. Most people I dated didn’t either. It might have just been me. It’s been so long. (That’s what she said!)