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TX Citizen Volume 3 • Issue 41 • October 9, 2014TRANSCRIPT
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We Clarify Because We Careand to Rub it In
Meek, Miller, and the GNBCC
Last week, we referred to 4-B uber-consultant Michael Meek as the President and founder of The Greater New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce. A few of you wondered how he could be considered a founder, as the Chamber bills itself as being in business since 1919. Granted, Meek doesn’t seem to age, but he is probably not a Highlander, which means that there is another explanation for our assertion.
See, back in December of 1997, Meek and former-Mayor-of-New-Braunfels-and-now-State-Representative Doug Miller incorporated the Chamber. Up until then, the local chamber was a, let’s say “looser”, non-incorporated organization. That association was dissolved and the new legal entity took its place. Keep in mind that a chamber of commerce is a private club, and any number of them can exist in any given area. But just like the aforementioned Highlander, there can be only one “Greater New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce”. You’ll have to call yours “The Hill Country Chamber of Commerce” or some such thing. You might even get away with “The New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce”, but I’d expect a fight over that one.
In any case, Meek and Miller founded the new Chamber to take the place of the old one. As far as we’re concerned, the Chamber put its legal stakes down in ’97 and ought to drop that whole 1919 thing. But that’s just us.
One more thing: As we’re fond of pointing out, the job of a chamber of commerce is to lobby government on behalf of business. As is plain to see, an organization cannot carry out that duty while on a government payroll, which the GNBCC is - to the tune of over $400,000 per year. What we didn’t know, is that the Chamber has language in their Articles of Incorporation stating that obligation outright: “representing them (business people)
in city, county, state and national legislative and political affairs;” But hey, let’s not quibble over $400,000 payouts that allow the City to make local businesses it’s whipping boy.
It’s just how we do things in this, Texas’ Most Corrupt City™.
Bob Gray
Also last week, we took 4-B President Bob Gray to task for stating that it would be against the law for 4-B to use its funds for road repair or drainage. We then listed several road/drainage projects that 4-B had already participated in. If you didn’t read that piece, you can check it out at txcitizen.com. You’ll be pleased you did.
We decided it might be fun to see what other kinds of activities other 4-Bs engage in that Bob might find illegal, or at the very least distasteful, given our 4-B’s insistence that its primary function is to serve as a corporate welfare channel and make-work program for various Chamber of Commerce employees. We looked up a few other cities to see what they were up to. New Braunfels has a population of about 63,000 souls, so we restricted our research to communities of similar size. All population numbers are approximate. We begin our tour with the delightful town of Cedar Park.
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Continued from page 3.Cedar Park, TX - Population: 61,000
Cedar Park lists 14 types of projects eligible for 4-B cash. We’ll just go ahead and let Number One on their list speak for itself: “Streets, roads, drainage and other related transportation system improvements.” Oh dear. They are going to be in some serious trouble once Bob Gray finds out about that.
To add insult to, well, insult, Cedar Park went ahead and used 4-B cash to offset over a half-million dollars in bond money to buy land and design a much needed road. That was 2013.
Galveston, TX - Population: 49,000
Way back in March of this year, the Galveston 4-B threw down a quarter-million bucks for, according to the verbiage in its contract with the Oleander City, “The paving of the road/street known as the Galveston seawall including related drainage improvements.” WHAT? Road work AND drainage? A two-fer! That’s a double crime, if you ask Bob Gray - but don’t ask Bob Gray. He’s got enough problems right now.
Longview, TX - Population: 81,000
Last year, Longview’s 4-B put $600,000 toward a road extension. As 4-B Boards so often do.
And the list goes on. Sugar Land dropped over $3 million on capital improvement projects, including four, count ‘em FOUR new
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Can-Ban UpdateAn 1894 Texas Supreme Court decision acts as the linchpin in a response to the City of New Braunfels’ appeal of a judge’s decision that struck down two City ordinances.
In April, the City appealed visiting Judge Don Burgess’ ruling that its disposable container and cooler ordinances were illegal. The various river outfitters who won the suit filed their response to the City’s appeal brief before the state’s Third Court of Appeals.
Burgess ruled that the City’s ordinances were “arbitrary, unreasonable, and a clear abuse of municipal authority, in that, the ordinances have no substantial relationship to the public health, safety, morals, or general welfare.” Burgess also ruled that the ordinances were preempted by state law and illegally vague.
The City appealed, arguing, in part, that as a home rule city, they have a right to protect the waterways from litter. The City also argued that the outfitters were not specifically targeted by the ordinances and, so, they had no real vested interest to bring suit. Moreover, the City argued that the ordinances were penal in nature, thus a civil court had no jurisdictional standing.
Austin attorney Jim Ewbank, who represents the river outfitters, cited Austin v. Austin City Cemetery Association, an 1894 Texas Supreme Court ruling that has acted as the guidepost for past court decisions in conflicts between government and business. Ewbank argues that the ruling says the City civil court does, indeed, have jurisdiction.
“Long ago, the highest court of this state found that despite the general prohibition against civil courts enjoining criminal prosecutions, equitable relief is available to prevent the destruction or deterioration of the value of property,” Ewbank and the outfitters argue. “Implicit in that ruling was the finding that the destruction of the value of property for the purpose for which it was acquired constitutes a legally cognizable harm to a vested property right.”
The river outfitters argue that the ordinances drove away tourists. And, since the outfitters, by their “very location and characteristics of the property on which they sit and are dependent on the unique characteristics of the property due to its proximity to the river, the ordinances violate the precedent set down in the Austin Cemetery Association ruling.
“The damage to Plaintiffs is thus two-pronged: (1) the inability of Plaintiffs to sell
inventory; and (2) the loss of a customer base that diminishes their ability to sell or rent those items that are not otherwise restricted by the ordinance,” the brief argues.
More chilling, the outfitters say, is that the ordinances damaged their businesses because any visitor to their shops risked criminal prosecution, again violating the Austin Cemetery ruling. Thus, they argue, the businesses are entitled to civil relief because they were at risk of losing customers who feared prosecution.
“Important to the finding is the Court’s recognition that, if a business’s right to test the constitutionality of the statute was dependent on the willingness of the customer to face criminal prosecution, the business had no adequate remedy at law in the criminal courts and was entitled to equitable relief,” the brief reads.
Thus, the outfitters argue, without redress in civil court, the businesses would be unable to question the constitutionality of the ordinances unless a customer is prosecuted. That, they argue, is an unfair burden and one that previous courts ruled is unnecessary.
The outfitters also take on the City’s argument that the ordinances were created to fight litter.
“Instead of criminalizing littering with disposable containers, which is already prohibited by the Texas Litter Abatement Act and another City of New Braunfels ordinance, the City has criminalized the mere possession of food and beverages in disposable containers,” the brief states. “In reality, the City is prohibiting food and beverages, rather than litter. Taking the statute on its face, a person can legally bring several garbage bags full of empty beer cans, plastic bottles, and paper trash into the river, but if one bottle has an ounce, or less, of water, that person commits a crime.”
As to the cooler ordinance, the outfitters argue that a tuber could litter with any size cooler, stating that “a person with a 48-quart cooler may not litter at all, while someone with a 16-quart cooler may dump all of his trash in the river.”
Like the City, the outfitters have also asked that the Third Court of Appeals allow for oral arguments. The court should decide whether it will allow for such arguments within the next few weeks.
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Continued from page 3.Cedar Park, TX - Population: 61,000
Cedar Park lists 14 types of projects eligible for 4-B cash. We’ll just go ahead and let Number One on their list speak for itself: “Streets, roads, drainage and other related transportation system improvements.” Oh dear. They are going to be in some serious trouble once Bob Gray finds out about that.
To add insult to, well, insult, Cedar Park went ahead and used 4-B cash to offset over a half-million dollars in bond money to buy land and design a much needed road. That was 2013.
Galveston, TX - Population: 49,000
Way back in March of this year, the Galveston 4-B threw down a quarter-million bucks for, according to the verbiage in its contract with the Oleander City, “The paving of the road/street known as the Galveston seawall including related drainage improvements.” WHAT? Road work AND drainage? A two-fer! That’s a double crime, if you ask Bob Gray - but don’t ask Bob Gray. He’s got enough problems right now.
Longview, TX - Population: 81,000
Last year, Longview’s 4-B put $600,000 toward a road extension. As 4-B Boards so often do.
And the list goes on. Sugar Land dropped over $3 million on capital improvement projects, including four, count ‘em FOUR new
parks last year, and less than $700,000 on corporate welfare. Midland uses 100% of its 4-B money on a big ol’ sports complex and other capital improvement projects. We are, indeed, first class suckers.
Last week, we explained that what Bob Gray probably meant when he said “We can’t, by law, go out and work on streets and drainage. That’s not allowed within State Law”, was “We can’t just go willy-nilly fixing roads or drainage. We’d need to come up with an excuse first.”
In hindsight, we think perhaps that was too generous an interpretation. As it becomes more and more clear that roads and drainage are, in fact, perfectly legal places to spend 4-B money as long as the paperwork is in order, it’s also becoming clear that when Bob Gray says “We can’t, by law, go out and work on streets and drainage. That’s not allowed within State Law”, what he really means is “Stop asking me about roads and drainage. I mean it.”
Apparently, 4-B President Bob Gray isn’t getting good advice from the guy paid extremely well to act as his consultant. If we were Bob, we’d go Shark Week on said consultant for allowing or encouraging us to use a now-exposed PR tactic based on false information. But we value our dignity, so, you know.
We’re certain that the $12 million 4-B is sitting on for corporate handouts, the $400,000+ per year they pay to the Greater New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce, the five figures it pays to the Chamber’s President to advise 4-B, and the fact that Gray stands there with a straight face and insists it’s illegal for 4-B to work on roads and drainage is nothing to worry about. At all.
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If you’ve ever been to Wurstfest, then you have seen many a frau and fraulein dressed in traditional German dresses. Chances are those many of those women and girls are wearing a May Koenig.
For more than 20 years, May has been hand-sewing dirndls for those ladies who want to sport German tradition at New Braunfels’ marquee German fair.
The traditional dirndl is made up of a skirt, bodice and blouse, all brought together with an apron. The dress is entirely funwear, more for show than function.
“I draw all my own patterns for my dresses and do my own designing,” the 85-year-old May said. “You have a choice of a longer or shorter skirt, and longer sleeves or shorter sleeves. My customers can choose their own color and we can put together a headpiece to match the color of the dress.”
To say that May’s dresses are good would be like calling Mozart a decent composer. Her work is excellent, which is borne out by the number of people who seek her out for one of her dirndls. The colors are sublime, never boring and always lovely. Her dresses always fit her customers to absolute perfection.
Born in Marion in 1929, at the start of the Great Depression, May came into this world in hard times.
“My parents had to sell a load of corn just to buy me a case of milk,” she said. “We lived on a farm, had no running water, no phone, no electricity, but we made it.”
She got an early start on sewing by doing the embroidery for her hope chest, which was a collection of fabric that girls would collect for when they got married. But her real lesson in sewing didn’t come until she and her husband moved from Marion.
“In 1955, my husband and I built a house in New Braunfels,” she said. “I was tired of picking cotton, so I got a job sewing little girls’ dresses on an electric sewing machine. I was used to sewing cotton sacks on a pedal machine, so it was hard to learn.
“One day, my boss told me, “either you learn or I will fire you.” I learned pretty fast. After that, I got a job at Comet Hosiery Mills, where I worked for about 20 years before they closed down.”
However, it wasn’t until she worked at a restaurant, strangely, that May sewed her first dirndl.
“I went to work at Bavarian Village, which was a German restaurant, where I made $2 an hour,” May said. “One day, the owner asked if I could make German dresses for her waitresses. I didn’t know what a German dress looked like, so she gave me a picture. I made them for her and have since worked those designs into my own German dresses.”
After the restaurant closed, May had a couple of more jobs before retiring at aged 62. But because of her ability to build a beautiful dirndl, her retirement certainly has never been an idle one.
“People kept bugging me to make German dresses for them. I didn’t want to sew for the public,” she said. “But, you know how it works, my name got around. So, now I am doing custom sewing from home.”
If you visit May for a dress, she will call the shots and dress you up nice.
“People come see me, I size them, then I tell them what they need to buy,” she said. “Then they go do their own shopping, choose their own colors and bring me the material, and I make them a dress. It works out wonderfully.”
One thing that has surprised her, recently, is the number of fathers coming to visit her for dresses for the men’s daughters.
The master seamstress will make the dresses for all sizes, from little girls to women. She has also made dresses for dolls, but she doesn’t think she will have time for that this year. She will also make shirts for men to wear with their lederhosen. Over the years, she has helped create the look for many traditional German oompa bands.
The work not only keeps May busy, but happy as well. Anyone who enters May’s home leaves with a new best friend.
“I love to create, I love meeting with the people, I love seeing these little girls walking out of here in their little dresses,” she said.
Like for many who grew up on a farm, there was always a lot of work to be done. But her parents found time to introduce May to another one of her great loves: dancing.
“We had to work in the fields all week, and my parents would take me dancing on the weekend,” May recalled. “We would drive in my dad’s Model T from Marion to New Braunfels, which is now 1044. But, at that time, it was a gravel road. So, if it rained, we would have mud roads, so there was no dancing.
“But if you went dancing on a Sunday, you had to remember that Monday morning was laundry day,” she said.
When she’s not making a dirndl, which she also wears to Wursfest, May can be found dancing to “good German music.” She certainly hasn’t let two bad knees keep her from her love of dancing.
“I can’t walk a few feet without my walker, but I can sure dance with the son-of-a-gun,” she said.
Her beautiful dirndls, love of dancing and warm personality has made May the subject of an upcoming documentary, “Maybelle, Texas,” which is expected to be completed in February.
If you want one of May’s creations, you can give her a call at 830-608-1215. But you better hurry because Wurstfest is soon and demand is high.
“I start getting orders as soon as July,” she warned. “I tell everybody they need to get here early. People may think they have plenty of time, but I’m only one person. So, you may not get a dress if you don’t get here early enough.”
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By Gustavo Arellano
Dear Mexican: Why don’t Mexicans
tip decently? I labor as a waitress in
a local upscale steakhouse where,
unfortunately, many Mexicans eat, and
the lousy tips are starting to piss me off!
Even blacks tip better! (Although, I gotta
say, Mexicans are much easier to wait
on. No constant requests for “So’ mo’
ranch dressin’.”) And yes: I always give
good service on the one-in-a-million
chance the brown-skinned loser sitting
at my table isn’t a complete social retard.
Could you possibly pass the word along
so I can quit spitting in their drinks??
Waits on Too Many Wabs
Dear Gabacho: Let’s consult the findings
of Cornell University professor Michael Lynn,
the country’s premier scholar on tipping.
In a 2003 study titled “Ethnic Differences
in Tipping: Evidence, Explanations and
Implications,” Lynn examined the long-
standing claims by waiters that minorities
tip less than gabachos. He analyzed the
responses of nearly 2,000 eaters in Houston
and found that not only did “Hispanics” (really
Mexicans, since Houston’s Latino community
is nearly three-quarters Mexican) tip as well as
gabachos, they usually tipped better.
Mexicans, according to Lynn, “increased
their percentage tips with service… more than
did whites.” Lynn offered no explanation
for his findings, but I will: Mexicans leave
a little extra not out of a perceived social
obligation but for a job well done—which
includes how caliente the chica is. Most
Mexican restaurants force their waitresses to
wear skirts just below the culo and blouses
with a neckline that plunges like the American
auto industry. Mexicans tip accordingly—I’ve
been to dives where Mexican men will tip
three times their $40 bill if the waitress jiggles
just a little bit longer.
When Mexicans go to eateries where
the waitresses dress more conservatively, the
tips usually dry up. Want a little extra, Too
Many Wabs? Bring us a bottle of Tapatío—not
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ass implants.
Dear Mexican: Why do Mexicans
pronounce “shower” as “chower” but
“chicken” as “shicken”??
Vietnamese About to Orate
Dear Chinito: This column has provided
readers with many indicators of the differences
between recently arrived Mexicans and los
que have lived here for generations: skin
tone, car purchases, whether the Mexican
in question flushes his soiled toilet paper or
tosses it in the trash can. Another sure-fire way
is the ch/sh phonetic test.
Proper Spanish doesn’t feature a
“sh” sound (known among linguists as
a linguapalatal fricative), so Mexicans
pronounce English words using an “sh”
sound with the harsher “ch” (known
as a lingualveolar affricate). However,
many indigenous Mexican tongues use
linguapalatal fricatives. The most famous
example is in the original pronunciation of
Mexico: as said in Nahuatl, the word sounds
like “meh-shee-ko.” The Spaniards couldn’t
pronounce the middle consonant, though,
instead substituting a guttural “j” (as in “Meh-
hee-ko”) early in the Conquest.
They killed most of Mexico’s Indians
in the ensuing decades, but the indigenous
“sh” sound never wholly disappeared: if you
do hear a Mexican using “sh,” it’s probably
a Mexican Indian. So next time you hear
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sandwish with Sheddar sheese,” VATO, por
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Ebola! Ebola!! Ebola!!!That Ebola has reached the shores of the United States is a little disturbing. That the singular unexpected American case occurred in Texas is scary (at least for most readers of TX Citizen, I live safely in Vermont). Even if you’re one of the people that see the incident cropping up in Dallas as a silver lining, I have no doubt it’s a little close for comfort. So far, the media coverage and the reaction from our government have been equally disturbing. I’m by no means calling for panic, but it’s worth discussing what the dangers are, from both a medical and a policy perspective.
Ebola is a type of hemorrhagic fever found in Africa. (Hemorrhagic fevers are named such because the end stages can include both internal and external bleeding. Bad stuff.) The lethality of Ebola averages about 50 percent, but in Africa, there have been outbreaks where 90 percent of those infected died. Ebola is transmitted by bodily fluids, which makes it a bit harder to catch, but since symptoms include diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, contact with body fluids is also more common. The incubation period for the virus (the time it takes to show symptoms) is 21 days at the long end, and before symptoms appear people are not considered contagious (more on this later).
The current outbreak in West Africa is the largest in history. At the time of this writing, over 7,000 cases have been documented and just over 3,400 deaths have resulted, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Lack of effective healthcare, government and sanitation in the affected countries make the problem worse. The virus has begun to make its way out of the countries where it originated. Neighboring African nations are most at risk, but there has been one case in the U.S. and another, newly reported, in Spain. All of this is the bad news, but not exactly an end-of-the-world scenario.
What about the good news? Well, the chances of Ebola taking any significant hold in America is very low. The CDC has been quick to note that the flu is a much more significant threat. The CDC looks to a 2010 study for this information, in which it was estimated that there have been between 3,000 and 49,000 flu related deaths in America over the years from 1976 to 2007. The current outbreak, again the worst in history, is just over the low end in that range, and that’s in Africa. The reason that Ebola is less dangerous on the whole is that it’s much more difficult to contract than the flu. The flu is airborne and commonplace; Ebola is not. So, if the flu isn’t sending you into a tizzy yearly, Ebola shouldn’t either, mostly.
Recent punditry seemed set on making fun of parents pulling their children out of school because some students had been exposed to the Dallas Ebola patient. This is an easy stance to take when your children are not involved. I side with the parents on this one, though. As much as I have railed against people using the precautionary principle, this is one of those instances where the precautionary principle actually applies. It may be much more likely that your children will contract the flu than Ebola, but catching the flu generally means bed rest and chicken soup. The consequences of Ebola are substantially more serious. Even the small risk of contracting Ebola far outweighs the loss of a few days, or even weeks, of school. Staying calm is one thing; being stupid is quite another.
Another bit of good news is that our healthcare is such that it is quite possible that Ebola would be substantially less lethal in the U.S. Early treatment of the early symptoms (primarily with rehydration) could help people survive the later symptoms. And, better nutrition and stronger resulting immune systems may make the virus less deadly here. The 50 percent survival rate that is cited has never taken into account treatment in a first-world country. Should Ebola become an issue in the U.S., we are far better off than those in West Africa.
On the down side, the hospital that originally saw the first American case sent him home with antibiotics even after he gave them enough information to suspect Ebola. It appears the dumbing-down of the populous has finally reached a dangerous point. Furthermore, the best place to catch an infection is often in a hospital, and if Ebola sufferers go there in any significant numbers, the hospitals themselves may become a breeding ground. This is a problem already experienced in Africa. Among the recommendations made by the CDC to travelers (aside from avoiding travel to stricken areas) is to stay away from hospitals if possible. Of course, staying away from hospitals if you’re sick isn’t much of an option.
There are two last bits of bad news in all this. First is that Ebola can be transmitted sexually up to seven weeks after recovery. This makes me wonder if it might also be sexually transmittable before symptoms appear. I can find no information on this, but it seems reasonable to me as a layman. Second is that Ebola is capable of infecting a good number of mammals. It’s believed that the major host in Africa is fruit bats. Among the other animals the CDC lists as capable of carrying the infection are apes, monkeys, antelope, and porcupines (and a similar virus has managed
to be transmitted to pigs). While America is free of apes (other than humans), we do have deer and porcupines in abundance. Should the infection spread to the local fauna, we could have recurring outbreaks just as Africa does.
Of course, the best way to ensure that Ebola doesn’t become a significant problem in the U.S. is to keep the infected quarantined. Until the Dallas case, we had managed just that, at least in this country. Unfortunately the government is loath to close down air travel from the infected areas in Africa. They are right to say that to do so would only encourage those in the infected areas to attempt to flee to other countries, perhaps spreading the contagion, but it would also be a first step in keeping the virus out of our country. Other steps might include mandatory quarantine for people with passports either from afflicted areas or who have traveled to those areas.
The idea that this might prevent us from giving help to the West African countries suffering from the outbreak is ridiculous. Private or military means could be used specifically for this purpose, and it probably should be. The real reason that the government is reluctant to take such actions is that it sends a poor message to the world. It would be tantamount to admitting that the disease is out of our control and far from over. It is, but no one wants to admit that just yet.
Up to this point, Ebola outbreaks have burnt themselves out for the most part. Ebola has typically struck rural areas in Africa, and sparse population has kept it in check even when the infection rate was high. The current outbreak is in an urban area with lots of people to infect and modern means of travel that allow it to spread more quickly. The United States and the United Nations would like to believe (and for us to believe) that they can bring enough resources to bear to end this outbreak, but it probably isn’t true, and the virus will probably have to run its course before disappearing again.
Ebola is certainly dangerous, and it’s quite likely that we haven’t seen the last case in the U.S. It’s definitely worth keeping an eye on the outbreak in the following months, but it’s probably not worth losing sleep over. I’ve written this column not to frighten people but to keep them informed. The truth is that the danger from Ebola in this country is very, very small, but it is not zero. Our government does a very poor job of looking out for our interests. This situation is no different. Be aware, and be informed… but don’t panic.
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