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• Keep Pflugerville Affordable and the taxation committee are described as separate organisations. On the question of who runs them, one of them answers for both. — Keep Pflugerville Affordable and Pflugerville Residents for Responsible Taxation appear in public as two things. KPA's own website closes most of the distance between them: it names Terry Newsom as KPA's founder, carries the committee's Vote Yes for ESD 2 Prop A campaign, describes David Rogers as a member of the committee years before he was elected, and defends the committee's payments to both Newsom and David Rogers. We are not asserting the two are legally one entity. We are reporting what one of them says about the other.
• A paramedic for the ambulance company killed a Pflugerville man and surrendered his certification. Three years later, David Rogers voted to keep the company. — On January 6, 2022 an Allegiance Mobile Health paramedic performed an unnecessary cricothyrotomy on 42-year-old John Samerigo of Pflugerville. The autopsy gave his cause of death as “improper emergency medical therapy, resulting in death.” The Texas Department of State Health Services investigated, moved to revoke the paramedic's certification, and he surrendered it in October 2023. All of this was reported in the Austin American-Statesman, KXAN and KVUE well before July 14, 2026 — the night David Rogers voted against ending the city's contract with that company.
• When the council finally moved to end the private ambulance contract and return EMS to the fire department, he was one of two votes against it. — On July 14, 2026 the Pflugerville City Council voted 5-2 to give ninety days' notice of termination to Bluebird Medical Enterprise, LLC, trading as Allegiance Mobile Health, and to execute interlocal agreements moving emergency medical services to Travis County ESD No. 2 — the fire department. Rogers and Melody Ryan were the two members against.
• On every contested vote involving the emergency services district, the same two members were on the losing side — and no one else ever was. — Across 105 sets of council minutes from January 2025 to July 2026 there were four contested votes on items involving the Emergency Services District or emergency medical services — votes where the minutes record a divided council rather than unanimous approval. Rogers was in the minority on all four. Melody Ryan was in the minority on three of them, alongside him each time. No other councilmember appears in the minority on any of the four.
• Cast the only vote against an interlocal cooperation agreement between the PCDC and Travis County Emergency Services District No. 2. — The Council approved an interlocal cooperation agreement between the Pflugerville Community Development Corporation and Travis County Emergency Services District No. 2. Rogers was the only member voting against.
• Three times in five years he went to court over an election — to stop one, to force one, and to get himself on a ballot. — The public record shows David Rogers as a named party in three separate pieces of election litigation between 2021 and 2026, in three different postures. David Rogers is the only Pflugerville councilmember who appears in any of them.
• Said he wanted to serve on the public safety subcommittee, then cast the only vote against the appointments. — On January 13, 2026 the council took up appointments to its City Council public safety subcommittee. The minutes record that Rogers and Coffman both said they would be interested in serving, and that Metayer said he would like to stay on the committee. Mayor Weiss moved to appoint Coffman and Metayer. Rogers was the only member voting against. The minutes record no reason for his vote.
• Cast the only vote against the appointment of the Police Chief. — The Council approved the appointment of Willie Richards as Police Chief. Rogers was the only member voting against.
• Voted against a request to Travis County concerning emergency medical services in the city. — The Council considered a request to Travis County related to emergency medical services in Pflugerville. It passed 5-2, with Rogers among the two votes against.
• The program lets police tell a school when a child has been through something, so the school can help. David Rogers asked why the definition of trauma was so broad, then cast the only vote against it. — On March 11, 2025 the Council approved a memorandum of understanding between Pflugerville ISD and the Pflugerville Police Department for the Notification of Exposure to Trauma program, known as Handle with Care. Under it, an officer who encounters a child at a traumatic scene notifies the school so staff can support that child the next day. David Rogers asked about the breadth of the definition of trauma. Assistant Chief Smith answered that the school district wanted it inclusive so that a child who was either a victim or a witness could receive help. David Rogers was the only member to vote against it. It passed 5-1; Councilmember Metayer was not in attendance.
• Asked what would replace the service he was campaigning to defund, he offered five options and no preference. The first option was the service he was campaigning to defund. — Six days before the November 2024 Prop A vote, Rogers posted a list of five options to a neighbourhood Facebook group under the heading “What's the Plan?” Option one is a contract with ESD 2 — the district the ballot measure would defund. The other four are Austin/Travis County EMS, Williamson County EMS, a private contractor, and a city-run service. David Rogers named no preference: “The voters will get to decide.” The screenshot was shared to r/Pflugerville the same day, where it drew 72 comments.
• Four fifths of the money behind the campaign to cut the emergency services district's sales tax came from two families. — Pflugerville Residents for Responsible Taxation is the political committee behind the petition drive, the litigation and the Prop A campaign to cut Travis County ESD No. 2's sales tax. Its Texas Ethics Commission filings show $261,748 raised since 2015. Contributions recorded under Tiemann names total about $136,580 and under Timmerman names about $75,500 — together roughly 81 percent of everything the committee ever took in. All of it was reported. None of it was hidden. That is why we can show it to you.
• The campaign's largest funder was recorded threatening the fire district over an elected board: “If that doesn't happen will get a jihad…” — Investigative outlet Dolcefino Media reported on September 6, 2024 that an audio tape captured Robert Tiemann — the developer who supplied the largest share of the Vote Yes campaign's money — threatening Travis County ESD No. 2 if it would not ask the legislature for an elected board. The quotation Dolcefino published is: “If that doesn't happen will get a jihad…” Tiemann did not return the outlet's calls.