Austin mayor sorry for urging residents to stay home while he vacationed in Mexico

The mayor of Austin, Texas, on Wednesday apologized for attending a wedding and traveling to Mexico for a vacation after urging residents to stay home in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus.

"I want you to know that I regret that travel," Mayor Steve Adler said in a video statement. "I wouldn't travel now. I didn't over Thanksgiving, and I won't over Christmas, and no one should. Everyone should be avoiding non-essential travel now because we are in the orange area."

Adler, the two-term mayor of Austin, said he attended a small, private wedding for his daughter in November and then traveled with his family to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. In a video filmed from his vacation, Adler urged residents to stay home, citing the rising number of coronavirus cases. "We need to stay home if you can," he said. "Do everything you can to try to keep the numbers down. This is not the time to relax."

He first revealed he was on vacation in an interview with the Austin American-Statesman.

"I recognize that the fact that I took that trip, and at the same time, was continuing to urge people to be cautious is confusing," Adler said in hi... (Read more)

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