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Dripping Springs adopts limited Founders Day rule: two political party booths, no candidate booths allowed

Dripping Springs City Council / Board of Adjustment · April 7, 2026
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Summary

After debate over timing and enforcement, council adopted a 2026 Founders Day policy that reserves up to two vendor booths for qualified political party organizations (not individual candidate booths) and prohibits campaign activity at non-political vendor booths; the policy applies to vendor booths for 2026 only, with staff to refine future language.

City attorney presented a draft policy April 7 to manage limited vendor-booth space at the 2026 Founders Day Festival and to limit political campaigning at vendor booths. The draft treats political-party organizations differently from individual candidates: the city will approve a maximum of two political-expression vendor booths to be assigned to qualified party organizations, not to…

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