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Lets keep in mind that while the WITH Scooter Store was raking in tens of millions in illicit cash, that they were also merrily requesting and accepting millions of dollars in New Braunfels sales tax funds thats your money through the Citys 4-B Board. And A few weeks back we promised this is where it gets awkward. some big Scooter Store news for you. And You see, the President of the Citys Daddy dont make promises he cant keep. So 4-B Board, which gave the Scooter Store here it is. Your BIG SCOOTER STORE NEWS: those millions of our dollars, is Tim Zipp. They got caught stealing. Again. And if you think Whos Tim Zipp? Well, hes a Senior Vice youve heard the whole story, reconsider that. President at the Scooter Store. Hes the guy By the time you finish this column youll learn thats in charge of Medicare Compliance at something that KGNB and the Houston-owned the Scooter Store. Hes right in the belly of Herald-Zeitung have known for years but have the beast on this one. Savor that fact for a neglected to mention during this latest fiasco minute. Mmm tasty. and youre going to lose your mind over it. Yep. The same guy that runs the one We agreed to politely wait until CBS department at the Store that keeps getting News ran their story before jumping in on this nailed for fraud is the same guy in charge one, but the cats out of the bag now, and if of the committee that uses our tax dollars to you thought the $4 million The Scooter Store issue sweetheart checks to big companies had to reimburse Medicare with back in 2007 that operate here. Like Silver State Helicopters would keep them on the straight and narrow, (now deceased). And The Scooter Store (on well the United States Government disagrees, life support). WTF because the Feds just nailed them again, this And as your blood boils over that bit time for close to $20 million. of news, lets not forget that our beloved It seems that, according to CBS and the community pillar Bob Krueger (D-TX) accepted aforementioned Feds, the Store has been million of tax dollars, funneled through the cheating Medicare. Again. And employing Scooter Store, to act as a lobbyist for the Store all kinds of unsavory tactics to coerce doctors while his wife, Kathleen, sat on our own City into writing prescriptions for unqualified Council, and while 4-B, which answers to that patients. The government says the deception Council, was busy delivering fat stacks of adds up to a $108 million dollar take between wampum to the Store. 2009 and 2012. The Scooter Store maintains Bob currently collects multiple taxpayerits innocence. And who are we to question funded pensions for his work as an that? I mean, its not like they have a track ambassador and his time the US House and record of Medicare fraud Senate. But hey, you keep on grinding it out in As previously stated, theyve settled for those two or three jobs youre working just to a $19.5 million penalty. The problem is that keep your kids fed - and of course contribute the US Government is letting them keep the to Bobs pensions. Its cool. Hes worth it. other $88 million auditors say they stole, and Youre going to see and hear reactions nobody knows why. Not even Congress. from a lot of people in the next few weeks. Senators Herb Kohl (D-WI) and Richard Keep this in mind while theyre talking: Blumenthal (D-CT) are hounding Medicare for Anyone unwilling to admit weve been had that answer. My guess is that the Feds knew by this gang is in on the deal. Watch for that theyre dealing with The Most Corrupt City those that defend this situation and see them in Texas , and everyone just acknowledged for what they are a cog in an iniquitous that this is business as usual. After all, the last machine. Stand up to those people. Ridicule government official to get in the way of a them. Mock them. Demand their resignations. Texans ambition had his brains scattered as And dont ever forget who they are. a fine mist over the Stemmons Freeway at 90 Continued on next page. miles an hour. #1963 TXCITIZEN.COM Editors note: Last week we told you wed have the second half of the Hotel Occupancy Tax story in this issue. Were going to hold off one more week on that because we got clearance to run the following earlier than expected.

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Continued from previous page. As for us, the TX Citizen is formally calling for the immediate removal of Tim Tip of the Iceberg Zipp from the New Braunfels Industrial Development Corporation (4-B). His remaining in charge of 4-B is exactly the kind of shenanigan that earned this town the title of The Most Corrupt City in Texas . Resign Tim. Hang your head in shame and get out. I mean, my gods, Im embarrassed over the condition of my lawn I dont know how I could live with myself being part of something like this. And its a national story now it goes beyond this column. Keep the money. Keep everything. Just get the #### out. Hey, remember how much fun it was watching the Reverend Jim Bakker get hauled away in handcuffs and tears when he stole all

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that money from his church and nailed Jessica Hahn? Oh man, those were good times. Im not saying anybodys going to jail over this stuff, because, after all, this is New Braunfels, but if anyone does, well have a camera there to capture the moment. Now rest assured, the attack mobs will be out trying to keep people from reading this with threats of boycott or worse. Stand tall. Be ready to tell them to #### off. Make sure everyone you know knows about this story. Its on our website at txcitizen.com. Copy and paste it into Facebook. Spread it on, as it were. We have been attacked mercilessly over the last week for declaring New Braunfels The Most Corrupt City in Texas . I invite anyone to tell me exactly why were wrong. See the CBS News piece by logging on to cbsnews.com and searching for Scooter Store. It aint pretty.

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Last Monday night, the City finally, FINALLY, agreed to do what three separate courts have ordered them to, which is pay the river outfitters close to $700,000 as part of the infamous Tube-Tax case from 2007. The City lost the initial case plus two appeals, and rather than get spanked by the States Supreme Court, Council voted unanimously to put a stop to the financial hemorrhaging these constant appeals have caused, which has got to be bad news for the Citys San Antonio based legal team, the members of which have been milking this moo-cow for years. We dont know how much of our money the City has spent trying to save face after implementing an illegal tax, and yeah, we could ask, but with their track record of cloudy record keeping I doubt wed get anything close to the truth. But what happened earlier in the night may turn out to be the bigger story. This tow truck contract madness the City has gotten itself into has corruption written all over it. 17 tow truck companies used to split the police tow business in New Braunfels. The City decided they wanted one company (plus a backup) to do all of the work. So they had each outfit prepare a bid according to a criteria package. Then, at the last Council meeting of 2012, they switched it up to four companies total and threw away the criteria, because the companies they wanted to use didnt meet the specs. We spoke with Garrison Maurer of Comal Towing after Mondays meeting. Maurer has filed a formal complaint against the City.

tonight. Garrison Maurer: We addressed the A major issue, a newly discovered, the that exists with a police officer being listed as a tow truck driver for one of the selected having a police officer as an employee in your contract, then we all should have the chance to hire police officers. Its illegal. Its like bribery, corruption, what ever you want to call it. duty wreckers. None of the companies they trying to find a way around it by saying they can sub-contract. Im not arguing about subBut, where the statement is stated in the RFP rules and requirements under Heavy doesnt say anything about being able to read it, youll understand that the company submitting the proposal must have a heavyduty wrecker. None of the guys selected have a heavy-duty wrecker or the storage facilities to store an 18-wheeler.

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requested, and didnt receive anything. There Continued from page 4. Weve seen the last few weeks, since January 1st, when the contract went into place, heavy-duty wreckers that the city has allowed from San Antonio being sub-contracted by the contracted companies taking 18-wheelers back to San Antonio. Theyre charging by the mile, and it costs a lot more taking them to San Antonio than New Braunfels. New Braunfels isnt benefiting one bit by this. San Antonio gets the sales tax, while New Braunfels gets left out. TX Citizen: Who did get the contract? Garrison Maurer: Two of (the companies granted the contract) are the same, they have common ownership, father and son team, same property, same trucks, everything. The son only has one truck, and he got half of the city contract. New Braunfels Towing is the father, New Braunfels Wrecker is the son. Then you have Blue Bonnet Motors and you have Hill Country Customs Collision. Another issue is we didnt even bring up tonight is all these companies are body shops. This is a towing contract. How do you issue a towing contract to a body shop? We didnt even bring that up tonight. TX Citizen: How does the police officer figure into this? Garrison Maurer: The police officer is David Olaf Olson. Hes a senior, ten-year veteran of the police force. His wife is Police Chief Tom Wiberts secretary. Now, Im friends with Olson, fine, but we gotta draw the line somewhere when we allow City employees into the contracts with no disclosures. Nobody disclosed that. Hes employed by Blue Bonnet Ford as a tow truck operator, and in their proposal, hes clearly identified as an employee operating a tow truck. He was also employed by New Braunfels Towing/ New Braunfels Wrecker as well in the past. (Editors note: Officer Olsen is a man of epic proportions, and could probably drag vehicles to the yard with his bare hands.) TX Citizen: Did you meet all of the qualifications for the bid? Garrison Maurer: Yes sir. I have a good size fleet of trucks, I have the heavy-duty wrecker. I have a facility thats inside the city limits. I put it all together in my proposal, as TXCITIZEN.COM were three criteria that the city scored us by. One, you had to have a plan to manage the contract. The second criteria was equipment capabilities and storage facilities. The third factor was past history reference letters. They scored off of those three requirements, and you had to meet the RFP (Request for Proposal) requirements as well.

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I checked out of the Newport Beach Public Library a 2012 film titled For Greater Glory merely because my favorite actor (Peter OToole) was in it. And I was pleasantly surprised to find myself watching a well-told tale of a dramatic piece of Mexican history La CristiadaId never heard of. It seemed a pretty cut-and-dry instance of good versus evil: President Plutarco Calles in the 1920s brutally repressed Mexican Catholics from practicing their Catholicism. What surprised me was to then visit the IMDb message

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Mexicans who had viewed the film vehemently taking the side of President Calles. Are Mexicans not so hyperCatholic as I imagine?? Bewildered WASP
Dear Gabacho: Just because one doesnt side with the Cristeros doesnt mean that one cant be a good Catholic (and, yes, custodians of Shakespeare: I just used three negatives in a language where double-negatives are a no-no!). And, as typical of Hollywood when it comes to Mexican tales, For Greater Glory grossly simplifies the Cristeros revoltbut instead of me preaching, Ill direct you to a withering critique offered by Rudy Acua, the legendary godfather of Chicano studies whos still at it in his golden years (he also just put the smackdown on the Mexicans pal, Ruben Navarrette, and his bizarre attack at undocumented students). You can find the profes piece by googleando Rudy Acua Cristeros but his summation is one that I agree with: Calles was enforcing the secularization mandates of the Mexican Revolution, which sought to not stop people from expressing their faith but rather take away the meddling might of the Catholic Churchyou know, that whole chingadera about the separation of church and state? The Catholic Church, like today in the United States when it comes to Obamacare, took Calles enforcement of the Mexican Constitution as an existential attack on Mother Church, and the two sides butchered each other. Los Cristeros are still hailed as martyrs in Catholic Mexico, while historians nowadays consider Calles attack on Mexican Catholics as a continuation of the countrys constant conflict between the Church and its natives. But if you think Calles was a butcher, you shouldve seen what the padres did to the indigenous folks back in the dayssimple facts that Cristeros fans never want to acknowledge because those priests made Calles look like Blessed John Paul II.

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Uncle Esel, Seems like the flu is the big topic of the season each year. Is it really that big a deal? Do you get a flu shot? Lovingly, Casey
Dear Casey, Thomas, My first thought is if you dont have the cash for a dating service, what makes you think you have the cash for dating? I mean, there are costs associated with wooing a woman, like dinners, movies, flowers and countless other expenses. And

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then, should you get serious and even think The flu has been around as long as man, about marriage, the costs will go through but modern news and social media is a new the roof. I can say that on my Facebook I invention. We never used to hear about it in have not seen open flirting or attempts to such a daily grinding way. The media love get dates, so if its happening, it must be the attention the story gets and the ratings through private messages. Uncle Esel has that come with it, so they dress it up and give it plenty of headline coverage. Uncle Esel had a few messages with propositions, but most of them were encouraging me to,

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Blowin Off Steamboat! own life has handed to them, you understand my perspective. Ive been a life-long lover of a wide variety of musical genres, but it there is more to music than listening to studio heart it has a whole different impact. was born to not only spread some festival goodness around, but also to provide a probably much needed hair of the dog for those that made the trek north last week

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Walt Wilkins hits the stage for an acoustic set at 10pm.

thing! That next morning I issued a handful of

is surprised they havent given it a naming ahem, date myself. protocol like hurricanes. How about Flu There was one famous case of two Cornelius in 1999. Man that was a bad one! people finding each other. Seems they But beyond the hysteria, this is where shared the same name, but the boy was Uncle Esel gets cautious. Flu epidemics in in Texas and the girl was in Florida. One history have resulted in millions of deaths and certainly before modern medicine, it was even worse. With modern air travel, a new element was added that aids in the spreading of germs and viruses quickly across the globe. found the other because they shared the same first and last name and they struck

If youve ever soaked in a live music set by a random invitations to a new event that Music in huge piles of cash or because somebody help of the TX Citizen, and within a 24-hour but about real experiences and feelings their play (at least) 12 hours of live music! Well have several guys that play together different bands. Theyll pitch in and help each also stand solo with complete competence.

songwriter that writes, not from a drive to rake of New Braunfels was organizing with the

told them what they should be writing about, period we had enough great talent booked to

regularly in different combinations to form

up a friendship that evolved in to visits and finally a proposal from the smitten boy. They married and now three years later they are

wasnt until the last few years that I discovered other pull off amazing full band sets. These guys albums and the radio. When you actually hear This group of New Braunfels songwriters and

Certainly the risk of a really bad epidemic is divorcing. I saw this and tried the same there and it could result in a lot of death and approach and found no female Ken Esels suffering, so yes, there is some argument that in the world (which seemed odd.) Of course it is a big deal. Mrs. Esel caught me doing this (it was just AS FOR ESEL, I do not take the annual flu shot. After years of being told that it was not alive and complete virus they inject us with only to get sick as a dog 24 hours later, I decided not to take it and have been lucky so far. Of course any time I feel something coming I go to those old German cures for almost any ailment; onions, honey and vinegar. Uncle Esel though, cautions you to talk to your doctor and get a professional opinion as I dont want you blaming me if you get sick. Sorry, I cant help you with that co-pay thing either. Love, K isnt Dear Sunny, Being wise must be a disqualification, it? To quote funny man Robin research!) and now she locks the computer room at night. Love, K

somebody perform a song live and feel the musicians are Jordan Minor, Tony Taylor, Slim Keith Hickle, B.J. Thibodeaux, Jordan York, Paul Rogers jst to name a few! We also have Fallon Franklin and great bands from nearby

emotion as they deliver something from their Bawb, Bryan Boyce, Kyle Reed, Court Nance, The Blowin Off Steamboat Music Festival Steven Vee, Carol Cochran, Stan Little and

great talents from nearby such as Chris King,

Uncle Esel, You are so wise - most times - and I was wondering if you would consider local politics? Appreciatively, Sunny

as well, like Dave Jorgenson, Pitchfork, T-Bone

to the MusicFest at Steamboat. In this age of and The Bluetones, and The Red Dirt Ramblers. stones in my own general direction), you get to see picture after picture of people enjoying wrote me back with Ok Brian. WW is IN! I was floored to say the least, and we are all

rabid usage of social media, (I also cast those The cake was fully iced when Tina Wilkins

themselves up in the mountains watching their very excited to have Walt Wilkins as part of favorite artists play full band and acoustic this event. sets over several days and nights all from the comfort of not-being-there. Texan envy was inevitable, and this might just be the cure. A conversation on Facebook was started by a fellow music lover as he joked about how we needed something down here for those of us that are left behind while our friends enjoy I hope youll be there too to enjoy some fantastic music with us and enjoy some great Freiheit burgers as well! The Blowin Off Steamboat Music Festival hits the stage at the Freiheit Country Store

Dear Uncle Esel, Williams; Politics: Poli a Latin word Is it acceptable to use Facebook to meaning many; and tics meaning find dates? I really dont have the spare bloodsucking creatures. cash to spend on dating services when I Love, K dont even know if it will pay off. Im not a bad looking guy, but I am a bit shy and I Uncle K. Esel is a lifetime resident of our fair city, and is dont really like the bar scene so I am left well known for his sage advice on a wide range of topics. with few options and trolling a grocery If you find yourself perplexed with no one to turn to, store is not my thing. What do you think? send your question to Uncle Esel at: askesel@TXCITIZEN. COM. Be sure to write Question for Uncle Esel in the Thanks, subject line of your email. Thomas
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that music festival. Thats when a moment of Full day admission is $8 per person, with free inspiration hit my friend Chase Cochran, admission for kids ten and under. (of the TX Citizen!), and his brain went into overload, thinking about how we could pull together a few bands and could do that very

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With Kelly Colby
Ceiling Our Fate Now that the Republicans in the House of Representatives have postponed the fiscal We are faced with a situation where nothing can be done to avoid the future consequences of our past and current negligent the way out, but Im not sure where exactly suspect that people in this camp will slowly I expect more true believers in this cliff and allowed taxes to increase, everyone behavior. Raising the debt ceiling will only can take a deep breath and get ready for prolong the agony. The same is true for the next governmental inspired apocalypse: The Debt Ceiling. Havent we done this before? The answer to that question is yes, but its time to do it again. The feds have burnt through the last debt ceiling increase, and sometime within the next month or so the accounting trickery will not be able to keep up with the bills that are coming due. At roughly the same time, the extension for the sequestration cuts will run out and 1.2 trillion dollars of cuts spread over the next 10 years will start. The result will almost certainly be mayhem as the gravy-train begins to come off the rails. We can expect the next weeks to include a barrage of Cassandraism from both sides of the aisle. Republicans have insisted that they will not raise the debt ceiling without significant cuts to government spending (though the sequestration cuts are not to their liking), and the Democrats have vowed not to buckle to blackmail from Republicans, meaning they have no interest in even slowing spending. We will be told that the government will shut down, that the world economy will crash, that old people will be through out of their homes to starve in the streets, that our credit rating will be lowered again. The reality is that these things are quite likely to happen in the very near future regardless of how the debt ceiling is handled. Our borrowing is holding back not just our
Given the Capitols proximity to water, 535 large burlap sacks could get the job done.

proponents of such a plan expect to go. I group. They will do everything they can to

stay in office, and theyll crunch the numbers

but surely begin looking for the exits over the to the bitter end. I dont know how they will next couple of years. Expect a few surprise react to what I see as inevitable, but I dont from politicians who have expect mass defections from politics from this

avoiding the sequestration cuts. There doesnt retirements even appear to be an effective means to tax

undisclosed health issues or want to spend group. The entire mindset is based on the idea that things can be made to work if only the our way out. The end is nigh my friends, and more time with their families. Washington knows it. This might, though, tell us 2. I have seen the light! While I imagine correct mix can be applied. That is true in most

quite a bit about those we sent to Washington that the first strategy will be dominated situations, but I fear that our economic woes from the president on down. I expect three by Democrats, I expect this strategy to be are beyond that point now.

3. Its time to face the music! This is the

group I will be watching most closely. I dont expect there to be many of them, but I do expect a few politicians to tell it like it is. These will

be the brave few who refuse to budge on the

debt ceiling. They wont call for us to default,

but they will insist that we must live within like cancelling entire programs and selling off assets. Theyll be alternatively laughed at politicians in both parties and denounced in the media as obstructionists. correct call.

our means. They will offer radical solutions

and called terrorists. Theyll be shunned by

And theyll be the only ones making the

It is time to face the music. We cant

afford the level of government we have, and

our perpetual borrowing is only exasperating

the problem. We should stop now and begin

living within our means. This will be hard.

Its going to hurt. In the long run, though,

basic strategies to be presented by politicians dominated by Republicans. These politicians it might keep our country and its economy in the next few weeks. The one that wins will will be calling for a slowing in Washingtons intact. It will also allow us to finally have determine our long-term fate, and theirs. rate of growth in return for a deal to keep 1. Full speed ahead! A good number of

a national discussion about our priorities.

the debt flowing. The argument will be that How important is it that we have the largest our elected officials will insist that the only way if we can shrink government, even slightly, military in the world? Should people expect We are reaching a tipping point for US debt. out of our current mess is to keep going in the the private sector will improve the economy that a certain level of subsistence will be own economy but that of much of the world as well. Our spending far outstretches our spending direction we are currently. We may enough to grow us out of this mess. even be asked to kick it up a notch or two. We will be told that the economy is improving and I expect that this strategy might have functions can be left to the states, and how

guaranteed to them by government? What

year, and any cuts to aid programs like plan behind this mindset. It does put off the Unfortunately, it has no hope of reigning in will recognize the attitude that offers us the food stamps or unemployment benefits are pain, but it almost certainly dooms us all to the spending monster that Washington has best way forward if we get another chance. likely to be very painful to people already a complete economic collapse in the long created. Entitlements and demographics will on the ragged edge. So, what can we do? TXCITIZEN.COM run. The last, no-holds-barred spending spree do us all in eventually, even if the rest of allows for a little looting of the treasury on government is adjusted to a reasonable size.

a reasonable amount of early success. will they pay for them? The group that supports this strategy will revenues even with the new taxes calculated this is an indication that what we have done A careful tweak here and there, and a in. The sequestration cuts, which will hurt our so far is working. Expect calls for all sorts of promise to limit spending slowly but surely be a small one, and they are almost sure to economy in the short run, represent in ten investments in our future economy. might improve consumer confidence, the lose the fight this time. But, with any luck, years roughly what we borrow every single Im not sure I fully understand the game stock market, and the overall economy. theyll get noticed this time around, and voters

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