Will Wynn

American businessman and politician
a former mayor of Austin, Texas

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

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, his family's roots in Austin and Central Texas run deep; two of his great great great grandparents, James and Julia Olive, settled in southern Williamson County in 1843. a bi partisan 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.

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 failed to place the recall on the May 7, 2005 ballot

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 was also involved in an incident where he yelled at a big rig truck that was blocking 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 assault for the Luke Johnson incident. The Judge ordered Wynn to get anger management therapy