Please carefully consider and vote. Following is a Montrose resident's perspective on Joe's fitness for the office. 

"In Houston's runoff for City Council District C (election day Saturday) I'm for Nick Hellyar. Why not Joe Panzarella, so heralded for breathing new life into Super Neighborhood 60, Freedmen's Town, and becoming its new young leader?? Bear with me a moment and I'll tell you:
1. The City acknowledged the activation of SN60 in July 2025, after three organizational meetings that picked a partial board and passed bylaws.
2. People were excited! Abbie Kamin arranged an award in December 2025, *just as* Panzarella announced his candidacy for her city council seat.
3. But Panzarella has held no SN60 meeting since July 2025.
4. Panzarella has set up no website for SN60, or even an Instagram account. (but he has a campaign Instagram account).
5. Panzarella has attended exactly zero Superneighborhood Alliance meetings going back to at least April 2025, while all the active SNs dutifully attend monthly. They are public video meetings - you can watch them now and see for yourself.
6. Panzarella has set up a board that includes himself, an Italian physical therapist, a nonprofit, and a bunch of townhouse associations. There's supposedly a seat for a native resident, but it's vacant.
7. Freedmen's Town is a very special historic neighborhood founded by formerly enslaved folks right after the Civil War. Its central Houston land has been a target for developers for generations now. The number of times it has been betrayed and its homes destroyed or made unaffordable to the people who have grown up there is legion.
8. I've observed that if you don't care about that history, you build townhomes there and pretend you care by talking about preserving its brick streets.
9. Panzarella, a white guy from the Woodlands, bought one of those townhomes and within months began organizing SN60. It was the first time he'd ever lived in Houston. In 2023.
10. Panzarella's official acts as SN60 president since July 2025 are exactly three:
- received an award for reorganizing SN60 after he had discontinued convening the group.
- held a potluck dinner in the neighborhood in Nov 2025.
- gave a statement to the press about preserving Freedmen's Town's brick streets.

Did he think we wouldn't notice that he set up a sham super neighborhood? Freedmen's town doesn't deserve that. District C doesn't either. We need someone committed to more than the political limelight, who will show up to the sometimes boring meetings and follow through on promises to us. (Emphasis added.) Nick Hellyar isn't looking to launch some bright career in national politics. He finds the day to day business of a city council member, including constituent services, *fun*. For real. We'd be lucky to have his public service."