You&#x27;re very misinformed.<p>I live in the area.  Uber&#x2F;Lyft have campaigned <i>really</i> aggressively.  I&#x27;ve got stuff from them in the mail, they contacted me at my unlisted cell, they&#x27;ve been canvassing hard for months.  I&#x27;ve never even <i>seen</i> an &quot;anti&quot; ad.<p>The &quot;pro&quot; Uber&#x2F;Lyft PAC spent north of $8m, while the &quot;anti&quot; PAC spent 1&#x2F;40th of that [0].  This is by far the most money ever spent on any election in this city&#x27;s history, by a factor of about 5.  And <i>all</i> of it is Silicon Valley money, which is just weird.<p>Quite frankly I have no idea whether the regulatory reforms Uber&#x2F;Lyft wanted were sensible or not.  I don&#x27;t know whether they were really necessary for Uber&#x2F;Lyft to continue operations or not.  I just know a bunch of SV investors spent an absurd amount of money trying to convince everybody of that, and Austinites are a <i>very</i> skeptical bunch who decided not to take their terms.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;qz.com&#x2F;677908&#x2F;the-future-of-uber-and-lyft-is-at-stake-in-austin&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;qz.com&#x2F;677908&#x2F;the-future-of-uber-and-lyft-is-at-stake...</a>