Will Wynn

William Patrick Wynn (born September 10, 1961) is an American businessman and politician who served as the mayor of Austin, Texas, from 2003 to 2009.

Family Born and raised in Beaumont, Texas, He attended Texas A&M University, where he graduated cum laude with a degree in Environmental Design in 1984. Although Wynn was born in East Texas, he has deep familial roots in Austin and Central Texas; two of his great-great-great-grandparents, James and Julia Olive, settled in southern Williamson County in 1843. a bipartisan anti-gun group with a stated goal of "making the public safer by getting illegal guns off the streets." The Coalition was co-founded by the late former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Toll roads Mayor Wynn voted in favor of a Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO) toll road plan on July 12, 2004, prompting the Texas People for Efficient Transportation PAC to start a movement seek a recall election of the mayor. The committee volunteers gathered over 36,000 signatures but fell short of the 40,000 needed to place the recall on the May 7, 2005 ballot.

Controversies and conviction Mayor Will Wynn apologized after he physically ejected a man who had crashed a party at Wynn's downtown condo building on March 17, 2006. The man claimed that after being told to leave by Wynn, the mayor followed him outside and proceeded to choke him.

On November 11, 2007, Wynn also became involved in an incident involving him yelling at a truck that had blocked morning rush-hour traffic on downtown Austin's 5th Street. The Mayor apologized and said he "spewed a fog of profanity".

On March 5, 2008, Travis County prosecutors charged Wynn with a Class C misdemeanor for an assault. At his sentencing, the judge ordered Wynn to seek anger management therapy.