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Council met on Monday night,

and didnt rubber stamp that
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ahead and preliminarily approved

revisions limiting
MIKE themostordinance
noise during most hours
REYNOLDS in most areas to 85 decibels.

They ended up sending it

corporate

to public workshop, mainly

welfare that 4-B wants to give

to Rush Enterprises. This isnt like
City Council. This is... weird. In any
case, the handout has been postponed, with
Council citing concerns and questions.
Heres what we had to say about the deal in
the July 2 issue:
4-B Coffers Open Wide for Rush Enterprises
The 4-B Board is seeking Council
approval of a plan to give Rush Enterprises
(2014 Revenues $4.7 Billion) nearly a million
bucks to stay here in town. According to 4-B
President Bob Pennwise Grey, Rush (2014
Revenues $4.7 Billion) has not threatened to
leave. Rush (2014 Revenues $4.7 Billion)
has not asked for the money. 4-B just wants
to give Rush (2014 Revenues $4.7 Billion)
$800,000. In return, Rush (2014 Revenues
$4.7 Billion) has to promise to stay in town for
the next ten years, and not cut its workforce
by more than 25 percent. WHAT MANNER
OF TOMFOOLERY IS THIS? Why 4-B is
trying to weaken Rush (2014 Revenues $4.7
Billion) with this massive handout remains a
mystery. Meanwhile, the political party that
most 4-B members belong to continues to
oppose food stamp programs because they
devitalize people.
As you can see, its a loopy deal. 4-B
uber-consultant Michael Meek will, no doubt,
go back and revise his pitch and eventually

because District Fives Wayne

The fact that the Noise Ordinance Task

Force, which was charged with developing
the standards for the ordinance, established
an objective standard for a violation is a
HUGE improvement. Give it up for them,

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The upshot of the new deal as put forth
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10pm, the top limit would be 85 decibels,

with a 75dB limit during the overnight
hours. 85 decibels around the clock
when there arent any houses around.
Thats workable, and most likely the status
quo. However, Monkey Wrench Peters
proposed

formal

amendment,

later

withdrawn, to redefine residential areas

to include commercial areas with houses
or apartments in them. Peters then took
another shot, and tried to get the dB limits
changed to 85 during the day and 70 at
night, regardless of area. That one failed,
and ultimately prompted the workshop,
which will delay passage.
Precinct Three Justice of the Peace
Mike Rust got up and complained about
the noise near his home over by the
Pour Haus (which we metered at 78dB
on our Saturday night test). He failed to
mention the trains that run through his
neighborhood day and night at over 100
decibels. Granted, the trains dont bring
a bunch of hipsters with them, but thats

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Two legal cases being followed by the TX

Citizen still await rulings from the Third Court
of Appeals, while one is awaiting resumption.
Here is the current status of those cases:

Justin Carter
Accused of making a terroristic threat on
Facebook, Carter appealed District Judge Jack
Robisons refusal to dismiss the case against
him. Carter and the Comal District Attorneys
office argued before the Third Court on June 3.
Carters arguments are that the penal
code under which he was charged is
unconstitutionally vague and that his comments
on Facebook were hyperbole that did not
meet the standard of a true threat.
Prosecutors argue that Carter can only
make a pretrial habeas corpus appeal on
constitutional challenges if he shows that the
statute always operates unconstitutionally
in all possible circumstances, not those
as applied specifically to him. As well,
prosecutors insist that Carters comments were
a true threat, given that the comments were
made within an atmosphere of fear created by
school shootings. Because his comments were
a valid threat, prosecutors argue, they are not
provided First Amendment protections.
The law in question concern sections of
Texas Penal Code 22.07, which read:
(a) A person commits an offense if he
threatens to commit any offense involving
violence to any person or property with intent to:
(4) cause impairment or interruption of
public communications, public transportation,
public water, gas, or power supply or other
public service;
(5) place the public or a substantial group
of the public in fear of serious bodily injury.
In February, 2013, Carter posted on a
Facebook thread, I think Ima SHOOT UP
A KINDERGARTEN and EAT THE BEATING
HEART OF ONE OF THEM. Someone who
saw the post alerted authorities.

businesses who sued New Braunfels over the

cooler size and disposable container ordinances.
Burgess agreed with the businesses that the
ordinances were unconstitutionally vague,
arbitrary, unenforceable and violated state laws.
One of the central arguments in the lawsuits
concerns whether the various river-oriented
businesses actually have standing to contest the
laws. The City argued before Appeals that the
ordinances did not violate the businesses rights.
It is very rare that a person has the right to
challenge a penal ordinance, the City argued
before the justices. Businesses lose their vested
property right after they sell that item, and
there was no prohibition on selling or buying
products. Its just that certain items, disposable
containers, cant be taken into the rivers.
The river businesses argued that a
reversal of Burgess ruling would create a
patchwork of laws for every city with a river
that runs through it.
Jim Ewbank, the attorney for the
businesses, told justices that it is wrong if
a customer has to subject himself to criminal
prosecution to contest an ordinance. Citing
an 1874 case, the attorney argued that a
business has standing because, otherwise, its
customers would have to be punished before
those customers can dispute an ordinance.

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A lawsuit filed against the City by three New

Braunfels towing operators awaits a new trial
date in District Court.
On March 24, the Third Court dismissed
the Citys appeal of Judge Dib Waldrips ruling
that the court does have jurisdiction in the case.
As the case lingered in Appeals for
more than a year, the City asked the court to
dismiss the lawsuit on the grounds that it was
moot since the ordinance that prompted the
lawsuit was no longer in effect. The towing
companies countered that the Appeals Court
couldnt dismiss the case because there had
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Continued from page 3.
What the people pushing the ordinance
didnt realize is that months ago, we went
around and metered the noise levels at
various music venues around town on a
Saturday night, and none of them exceeded
85 decibels when measured from their
property line, per the ordinance. Sure, we
could have printed that before, but that
would have been doing their homework for
them. Turns out the Task Force in charge of
recommendations did the same thing, with
the same results. Hey people that wanted this
law to punish the Pour Haus, congratulations
on your new ordinance that gives it license to
install significantly more speakers. Good luck
getting it turned down to 70dB. Its clear that
thats not going to happen outside of Wayne
Peters mind.

I am a beaten man.
I had a two-page article written about how,
according to the Chamber of Commerce
website, Tim Zipp is a Vice-President of the
Wurstfest Association, and how that just figures.
I mean, Zipps the guy that was President of 4-B
while 4-B was tied up in a corporate welfare
deal with the Store, while he was an executive
with The Store. Zipp remained 4-B President
as 4-B initiated its attempt to recover some of
the millions that it gave to The Store when The
Store (Zipps company) threatened to move to
San Marcos if it didnt get a sweet payday.
Fox, meet henhouse.
You might remember that The Scooter
Store had to settle with Medicare/Medicaid
over some Medicare/Medicaid fraud. The

to an FBI raid, being personally under

Justice Department investigation (according
to the Express-News), and being allowed
to continue to helm the taxpayer-funded
corporate welfare program which had to
sue his company to get in bankruptcy line to
maybe get a tiny portion of their (our) millions
back, (hes since resigned from that gig), hes
Vice-President of the cabal that hosts our fair
citys premier event, the Ten Day Salute to
Excessive Beer Consumption. The $17 a
pitcher bacchanal known as Wurstfest.
I had a whole article written about what
a slap in the face to the town this situation
is. About how this kind of cronyism is what
creates Marxists and Occupiers and a
demand for Guy Fawkes masks. About
how, if one is part of the right clique, ones
department can oversee fraud, trigger FBI
raids, destroy a major company, put a
thousand people out of work and one can
still be placed into positions of responsibility,
and worse, community leadership.
I had it written. I chucked it, because in
the end, this is how business is done in Texas
Most Corrupt City, and thats something
thats never going to change, which is
depressing as heck. I chucked it because it
made me look like Id finally been pushed
over the edge by this civic hooliganism.
Mostly, though, I chucked it because I needed
the space for some ads and stuff.
Like I said, Im a beaten man.
\m/
Mike Reynolds
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief

Scooter Store had overbilled Medicare/

Medicaid for over $100 million. Between
Medicare pulling their contract and the FBI
raid that relived the company of many, many
computers, The Store went out of business,
leaving over 1,000 locals jobless.
If only the Store had complied with
Medicare rules. If only they had a VicePresident in charge of that compliance. Wait.
They did? And his name was Tim Zipp? WTF
So now, after being in charge of the
department of The Scooter Store which
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Noise Ordinance
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The Citys noise ordinance, which caps

noise levels to 85 decibels, worries some
downtown residents.
Those who live in the neighborhoods
that surround the downtown area said they
are concerned that the ordinance would put
them at odds with law enforcement because
the sound of their combined bitching far
exceeds that decibel level.
IM NOT GOING TO PUT UP WITH
THIS! screamed one local resident. THIS
IS BALONEY! DONT TREAD ON ME!
COME AND TAKE IT!
Another downtown-area resident said
that the spirit of the law is what New
Braunfels should be focusing on.
The whole point of the noise ordinance
was to keep away people we dont approve of,
especially gay people she said. As everyone
knows, gay people are really, really loud.
Eighty-five decibels is the equivalent of
a freight train filled with nervous elephants
pushed from a six-story building.
The City has already appealed.

Texas Alerts Residents

State law enforcement officials sent out a
warning to local officials and residents that
State Sen. Donna Campbell is on the loose.
Officials want Texas residents to know
that the Senator is considered weird and full
of angry.
If you spot Sen. Campbell, do not approach
or attempt to apprehend her, the warning states.
Do not act in a homosexual manner and do not
ask her where she actually lives.
Senator Doctor Campbells district includes
Comal County, but she actually resides many,
many miles away. She does not like gay people.

City Upset Over

Recent Ruling
After the Third Court of Appeals recently
refused to dismiss a lawsuit against the City
of New Braunfels, the City ran into its room,
slammed the door and refuses to come out.

After passing the OK, FINE! ordinance,

the City of New Braunfels has been in its room,
throwing things against the wall. The City has
thus far even refused to come out for meals.
However, most legal experts say that the
City locking itself in it room should be fine
because, after all, thats where all its stuff is.
One of New Braunfels closest friends,
Seguin, said the City did send some texts.
OMG!! I hate my f****** Appeals
Court!! the text read. I should tell them, GFU!!
Later, the texts to Seguin took on a
mopier tone.
If I died up here, no one would notice
or even care, the City texted. :(
Most believe that New Braunfels will
eventually come out of its room when the
City gets hungry enough.
They will come out later, said Leonard
Mandamus, a municipal law expert. Before
long, the City will come back to the dinner
table where it will stare at its cell phone,
scowl, and refuse to make eye contact or
respond to anyone else at the table.
The case that upset the City regards an
ordinance Council passed that made it illegal
for people who live out of town from parking
anywhere within the Citys limits. Residents would
have to buy a special sticker for each vehicle,
which runs $5,000 per year. Those without a
sticker would be taken by law enforcement and
dropped off outside the city limits.
The City had argued that it cant be
sued because, Um, duh, were the City.
After district court rejected its argument, New
Braunfels appealed.
During arguments before the Third Court of
Appeals, the City was chastised by one of the
justices that a nose piercing and torn stockings
were not appropriate attire for the court, to
which the City snorted and rolled its eyes.
I dont know whats happened to you,
the justice said. You used to be so sweet.
In its ruling against the City, Appeals told
New Braunfels that you are not too old to be
grounded. The justices also asked the City if this
is how it intends to spend the rest of your life?

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its peak income in 2011. It should be noted that Chamber personnel Michael Meek and Rusty
Brockman are paid by 4-B to advise 4-B on where to spend 4-B funds.
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oranges, as it were, in order to arbitrarily make a point. This week:
The Greater New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce take from 4-B (taxpayer) coffers from
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Closing the Gap

Theres an ad currently airing on television

depicting the fictional debut of the first woman
to take the mound as a pitcher in major league
baseball. A sellout crowd is on hand and those
who arent at the stadium are watching the
game on their tablet just as Cortez delivers
a strike over home plate. Its described as
a cant miss moment in history and youd
better have your iPad ready because maybe
its not as far from reality as we once thought.
Women continue to break down sports
barriers previously thought to be impenetrable.
Look no further than a few miles south on I-35.
In San Antonio, Becky Hammon serves as an
assistant coach for the Spurs, the first full-time
female coach ever to be on an NBA bench.
Dont think of that as some novelty act that the
Spurs pulled when they hired Hammon last
year. Hammon has lived basketball her entire
life. From South Dakota Miss Basketball in
high school, to an All-American and Colorado
Sportswoman of the Year while at Colorado
State (where her jersey is now retired) and
eventually as a pro, spending 16-years in the
WNBA being named an All-Star six times.
However, those accomplishments went
relatively unnoticed. Appreciated? Sure. Revered
by her peers? Absolutely. National recognition
for ground-breaking accomplishment? Not
so much. There have been plenty of female
basketball stars, making their journey from
high school to the pros before Hammon, and
many have gone into coaching womens
basketball. Just an assumed part of the cycle
for female athletes. Except now Hammon has
changed that. It was the Spurs that gave her
the chance but like anyone whos successful in
their field, Hammon has made the most of her
opportunity and in a years time, has broken
another barrier: first female head coach of an
NBA Summer League team. It took her all of
two games to shatter another barrier: first win
for a female head coach as the Spurs beat the
Milwaukee Bucks 89-74 in Las Vegas.
After her debut, Hammon was quoted as
saying (courtesy Associated Press): I just think its

important [for] society that women be rewarded

for their brains just as much as any guy.
To me, its always about bigger picture. We
want to make sure that when your wife or your
daughter goes in for a job interview, she gets
the same opportunity that a guy gets. Whether
its basketball or in the army or in CEOs or in
operating rooms, we want women there.
Consider hers one of the many steps
being made to get there. Another step
made this past April was the NFL hiring Sarah
Thomas as their first full time female official.
Soccer is starting to gain major traction in the
United States, and its the US women, not the
men, who have had the greatest success. The
last time the men finished better than eighth
in the World Cup was 1930. The women just
won the title for the third time, have qualified
every year since the Womens World Cup
was founded in 1991 and have never finished
worse than third. The biggest star in UFC right
now is Ronda Rousey, whose latest title fight
(which she won in a championship record
14 seconds) drew nearly 600,000 PPV
buys while the following two UFC PPVs, both
featuring mens fights as main events, had a
combined 400,000 buys. Serena Williams
just won Wimbledon for the sixth time in her
career, and with it, her 14th Grand Slam title.
Unfortunately, there are still some who
believe men are still far superior than women
when it comes to sports. Some guy, an average
Joe, actually challenged Rousey to take him
down and he was quickly dispatched on
YouTube. Another accused Williams of looking
like a man and was later burned on Twitter by
JK Rowling. Those morons dont represent the
masses. Times have changed, gaps have been
closed and barriers are coming down. The
playing field is starting to level and Ill have
my tablet ready to watch it all unfold.

Brant Freeman is a seasoned local sportscaster,

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delivering the goods as a reporter for major pro and
collegiate sporting events in the greater San Antonio
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By Gustavo Arellano sex crimes. So, lets compare apples to

manzanas: In 2003, gabachos incarcerated
Dear Mexican: Ive been on sex- for such crimes represented about 18 percent
offender registry websites a couple of all gabacho inmates in state prisons;
of times, and it seems there are a lot perverted Hispanics, conversely, made up
of names ending with -ez. Is there just 11 percent (strangely enough, the U.S.
an elevated rate of sexual deviancy Department of Justice doesnt keep the same
amongst Mexicans? If so, why?
statistics for federal prisons). According to
El Gero Guapisimo
this comparison, gabachos are more likely
as a group to sexually assault you than
Dear Readers: This is the first time in Mexicansbut betcha you wont hear Lou
Ask a Mexican! history Ive ever changed Dobbs repeat that factoid ad nauseam.
an answer, but only because the situation
Now, the update, which Im pirating from
deserves since Mexicans-are-rapists is the my recent Politico article on the same subject:
new black right now. I answered the above A 2011 U.S. Government Accountability
pregunta in 2007 this way:
Office study Criminal Alien Statistics:
Methinks you doth look for brownies Information on Incarcerations, Arrests and
too much. But I dont blame you. Turn on the Costs found that of the three million arrests
television and radio, and youre likely to hear of immigrants, legal or not, examined by
anti-immigrant pendejos screech about how investigators, only two percent were for sex
Mexicans will rape you while stealing your offensestwo percent too many, but hardly
job and playing banda music really loud. an epidemic. It didnt break down the ethnicity
Youll probably hear them invoke the work or legal status of the offenders, but the Bureau
of Dr. Deborah Schurman-Kauflin. Her 2006 of Justice Statistics (BJS) National Crime
paper The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Victimization Survey breaks down such stats
Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by victims. For 2013 (the most recent year
by Illegal Immigrants in the United States available), it shows that whites accounted for
came to some startling conclusions, including 71 percent of all sexual assaults documented
that there are 240,000 illegal-immigrant sex (above their total percentage of 63 percent of
offenders in this countryand that 93 of these the U.S. population), while Latinos accounted
cretins enter this country daily. Know-nothing for 9 percent, far below their total percentage
politicians and even the House Homeland of 17 percent. And as a percentage of all
Security Committees Subcommittee on serious violent victimizations, sexual assaults
Investigations have cited Schurman-Kauflins represent 11 percent of the violent crimes
paper in arguing against amnesty.
against Latinos. For gabachos? 18 percent.
She based her findings on a 2005 The BJS also noted that for the period from
Government Accountability Office (GAO) 2005-2010 about 66 percent of sexual assualt
survey that showed 2 percent of illegals in victims knew their perp, and that whites had
federal, local or state prisons had committed strangers commit violent victimizations against
a sex crime. She then applied that percentage them at a rate of 9.2 per 1,000 people,
to the illegal-immigrant population at large compared to 9.8 per 1,000 for Latinosso
voila! Instant endemic perversity! But this much for the notion of an army of faceless
statistical sleight-of-hand withers by employing Mexicans stalking their fair-skinned prey.
the very stats she uses. GAO data for 2003
For those who dont comprende: white
(the most recent year available) showed about American citizens are far more rape-y than
308,000 criminal aliens (legal as well as Mexicans can ever hope to become. So when
illegal immigrants) were in American prisons; are gabachos going to jump on that pandemic?
they constitute about 3 percent of the nations
12 million illegal immigrants. If only 2 percent
Ask the Mexican at
of incarcerated illegals committed a sex crime,
themexican@askamexican.net,
then its intellectually misleading to arrive at
be his fan on Facebook, follow him on
the 240,000 figure for all illegals, qu no?
Twitter @gustavoarellano or follow him
For the Mexican, a more telling number
on Instagram @gustavo_arellano!
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The Windy City
The City of Broad Shoulders:
Colby Visits Chi-Town
After leaving Ohio behind, we planned to
pass through both Indiana and Illinois before
settling in Wisconsin for the night. But what

And that was before the 60s. Since

then, its gone downhill. If youre looking
to end up dead, there are neighborhoods
in Chicago where you can make that

happen just about any weekend without what seemed like an eternity, a friendly young
too much trouble. Besides, I never was man looked at me from out of his toll window.

the way, and it would be hard to deny that where our story begins.
Chicago is important to American culture.
Youd think this sort of thing would be
Chicago was home to Sandburg and Upton an easy enough operation, but youd be
Sinclair. It gave us Phillip K. Dick and John wrong. Chicago is an artery in the heartland
Irv Kupcinet, who wrote Kups Column
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Ive

reported

murders,

Toll Man #1: I hope you enjoyed the

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Me: Grrrrr.
Toll Man #1: Are you alright, Sir?
I hand him two twenties.
Toll Man #1: Do you need a receipt?
Me: No, I need a second job.

of America. We know that all roads led to

Rome in ancient times; well the same appears

Just two tollbooths and $30 dollars

to be true of Chicago today. Its no small task

later, I reached the last tollbooth in Illinois.

scandals,

to plan a route that will take you around, but Welcome to Wisconsin could be seen on
marriages, premieres and national not through, the city while leaving you on
the sign in the distance. I pulled up to the
political conventions. Ive been amused, well-developed roadways. And the tolls are
tollbooth and saw a very young man. He
intrigued, outraged, enthralled and impossible to avoid.
looked too dull to be a college student, but he
exasperated by Chicago. And Ive come
was the right age. He looked a bit flustered,
to love this American giant, viewing it as For Whom the Road Tolls
but he was pleasant enough.
the most misunderstood, most underrated As a libertarian, Im supposed to love toll
city in the world. There is none other roads, and for the most part, I do. We have
Toll Man #2: Thats $6.50.
quite like my City of Big Shoulders.
a nice little toll road in New Hampshire,
I handed him $10, and with only a little
And Frank Lloyd Wright said, costs a whole dollar to get you from near the
difficulty he made change and handed it to
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most Massachusetts border to almost at my front
me with the receipt.
beautiful great city left in the world.
door. Likewise, the toll roads in Ohio and
Me: Youre new here arent you?
These men understood the greatness Indiana were quite reasonable. Far more
Toll Man #2: I just started today. Howd
of Chicago. Its influence, its architecture, than a dollar, but even ten or fifteen dollars
you know?
its politics. They recognized that Chicago is not exorbitant to travel across a state, and
I drove off.
in a very real sense IS the very essence of to be fair, the same was true of Illinois until
urban America.

Chicago came along.

Sarah Bernhardt put it this way, I adore

Chicago. It is the pulse of America. What

Toll Woman: Thatll be $19.50.

more could be said?

Me: I want to take the Skyway, not

Well, perhaps this: I have struck a

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about Chicago? Part of the point of this consequence anyway?
trip was to see those sites of import along
We decided to go around. And thats

Belushi, Obama and Al Capone.

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I hand her a twenty.

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