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Former City Engineer Jim Klein spoke infavor of Brinkkoeter before the Commissionersvoted unanimously, on Kennadys last day,to remove him from the ESD. To add insultto injury, Brinkkoeter was unaware he wasbeing removed from the post until we toldhim, which was kind of awkward.
Kennadys replacement of Brinkkoeter was
one-for-one. But note how Kennady dodged thequestion when asked why people were beingreplaced. The emphasis is ours: We always dothis. We make changes, we made several changestoday. But, the main thing is, we do very muchtry to be sure all the precincts are representedon all the ESDs, and that one happened to havefour in one precinct and one in another precinct,
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The Circus ContinuesDistrict One Councilman GeorgeGreen had his meeting with CityHall last Monday, December 22,ostensibly to discuss his contentionthat we have all the sameingredients brewing here, inreference to Ferguson, MO, and thatWe should address this at the locallevel before it explodes. Green has alsocomplained of harassment, (Driving While Black),presumably at the hands of New Braunfels Police,as police forces are the general recipient of thosetypes of complaints, combined with the fact that
he launched a Texas Rangers investigation of thePolice Department. Green had also complained ofracial threats directed toward him, but which hedeclined to provide to us.
Scheduled to be at the meeting wereCity Manager Robert Camareno, Psychic CityAttorney Madame Val Acevedo, Police ChiefTom Wibert and Green himself (we do not havea full roll call of actual attendees). Green broughtseveral guests to the meeting to describe theirexperiences as members of minority groups livingin New Braunfels, along with a representative
from the NAACP. Green did not discuss hisTexas Rangers-investigation-meriting-complaintagainst the New Braunfels Police Department.
Green is currently facing a City EthicsCommittee hearing, as well as a criminalinvestigation filed against him by the ComalCounty Fair Association, prompted by Greensrequest to City Council that the Associationbe subject to a full audit, and a media callfor the Association to have their lease withthe City revoked. This, after Green was
denied a parking space in a restricted areaof the fairgrounds and asked to leave anotherrestricted area on foot, on separate occasions.
After the meeting, Green appearedat the New Braunfels Police Department tofile a criminal complaint against an as-yetunidentified member of the Fair Association formaking a threat against him. It is unclear at thistime if that report concerns the racial threatsGreen had referred to in a letter to Mayor (andEighth Wonder of the World) Barron Casteel,and has refused to explain since. Police cannot
comment on the contents of that report at thistime as it is an active case, but well have it foryou if and when it is released.
PaybackPrecinct Four County Commissioner Jan Kennadyretired from her post after what seems likeforever, but not without taking a parting shotat her replacement, Jen Crownover, by dealingout some punishment against a firefighter whomade the mistake of working on Crownovers
campaign rather than towing the line forKennadys choice of torch recipient.Kennady had appointed New Braunfels
Fire Department Battalion Chief, and Comal
County Deputy Fire Marshall, DarrenBrinkkoeter to the Precinct 4Emergency Services District (ESD)
several years back, and whilehaving a guy with that kind ofresume is a boon to residentsof the area, Brinkkoeter crossed
Kennady by serving as treasurerfor Jen Crownovers campaign to
take over for Kennady after Kennadysretirement. Kennady fought tooth and nail to
keep Crownover from taking the seat, and, failingthat, she decided to get her pound of flesh byreplacing Brinkkoeter with a Vietnam veteran/retired small-businessman, whom we are sureis very nice. Given the choice on who handlesemergencies should River Road burn, however,well take the firefighter. But thats just us.
Former City Engineer Jim Klein spoke infavor of Brinkkoeter before the Commissionersvoted unanimously, on Kennadys last day,to remove him from the ESD. To add insultto injury, Brinkkoeter was unaware he wasbeing removed from the post until we toldhim, which was kind of awkward.
Kennadys replacement of Brinkkoeter was
one-for-one. But note how Kennady dodged thequestion when asked why people were beingreplaced. The emphasis is ours: We always dothis. We make changes, we made several changestoday. But, the main thing is, we do very muchtry to be sure all the precincts are representedon all the ESDs, and that one happened to havefour in one precinct and one in another precinct,and we need to balance that one out. She saidthe same thing during the meeting when theissue arose. Brazen doublespeak. Takes somereal moxie to simply disregard the question andmisdirect like that. Not the first time weve caughther doing it, either.
Its unfortunate that someone asrespected as Kennedy leaves with this kind ofblemish on her legacy, and frankly, it makesus wonder what other shenanigans shesbeen up to for the last 11 years.
County Communications PlanIn other news, the County decided to moveforward with its new communications plan,
which includes an effort to strengthen itsties with traditional media and developpartnerships for information distribution. Thatrecommendation was put together by a tenmember group which included such traditionalmedia players as the news director fromKGNB radio and the publisher of the Houston-owned Herald-Zeitung. Look for your tax dollarsat work at both KGNB and the HZ in upcomingmonths, not to mention a cozier relationshipbetween those entities and the County.
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County Commissioners court was a busy one.
The Commissioners saw the retirement of oneof its members, agreed to the purchase of a
new software system and considered better
ways to inform the public.
After serving as Precinct 4 Commissioner
since 2003, Jan Kennady sat on her last
court meeting to a standing ovation. Besides
her time with the County, Kennady had also
served on the New Braunfels City Council
which included a stint as the Citys mayor.
I really have mixed feelings, she said
about leaving. I have loved every minute of
this, but Ive got other fish to fry and other
things I need to be doing.
After dealing with cancer and my
husband passing away this year, its time for
me to do some other things, such as see my
kids and grandkids, Kennady added. But its
been a lot of fun.
Jen Crownover, who is taking Kennadysseat, will be sworn in on January 1. The two
have had an acrimonious relationship since
Crownover took on, and then beat, Jeanne
Slupik in the Republican primary. Kennady
had backed Slupik.
Also retiring was County Clerk Joy
Streater, who had served in that position
for 22 years.
Commissioners also approved replacing
its antiquated financial software, which is atleast 15 years old. The County was forced
into buying the new software when the vendor
for the current system announced that it will
discontinue support by August, said County
Judge Sherman Krause.
The new software, Krause noted, with
New World Systems, will keep track of
general ledgers, accounts, payroll, employee
files, purchase orders and inventory. The total
cost of the new software will be $469,300,
which includes installation.
The unanimous decision to purchase the
new software was met with overwhelming
applause from the county employees who
were present at the meeting. The system is
expected to go live by June or July.
Commissioners also approved updating
its troublesome phone system with a Texas
Next Generation system. Kennady noted thatthe current was phone system was so unreliable
that when she misplaced her cell phone, she
tried to call it from her office phone, but that
the phone wouldnt work.
Several attempts by the TX Citizen to call
County offices were unable to connect, withthe County phones hanging up before ringing.
Another important matter before the
Court was the list of recommendations from
a citizens committee charged with finding
ways to improve communications between the
County and its citizens.
The 10-person committee, which included
representatives from the New Braunfels
Herald-Zeitung and radio station KGNB,
surveyed 646 Comal residents. A third ofthose residents surveyed expressed some
dissatisfaction with the Countys attempts at
disseminating information.
The county has a number of positive
communication venues in place, but their
effectiveness is limited, the report said. The
common tread (sic) here is a lack of staff time
and expertise needed to develop information
and then to promote both its distribution to and
use among the public.
One of the problems, the committee noted,
is that the County lacks a cohesive system to
distribute information, relying, instead, on
each department to communicate individually.
Having different departments handling
their own communications and doing
things differently raises questions about the
consistency in how the public gets information
and how that information is presented, thereport said. The citizens group recommended
that the County strengthen its ties with
traditional media and develop partnerships
for information distribution with other
entities (presumably local media outlets).
To achieve these ends, the committee
recommended that the County hire a public
information officer to develop and oversee
communications operations. This position
would not be, the report said, a publicrelations position.
I think the position is something that
we should definitely look into, Precinct
2 Commissioner Scott Haag said. Haag
noted that if Commissioners Court goes
forward with hiring an information officer,
the County would then post the position and
conduct interviews.
The first Commissioners Court meeting of2015 will be January 8.
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Christmas Songs to BurnBeside the Yule LogContrary to popular belief, the national
suicide rate does not increase during the
holidays. If it did, however, an argument
could be made that the following eight songs
were a contributing factor:
8) SANTA BABYWhy is this popular? Why does anyone
enjoy hearing a trumped up floozy gold dig
her way into Santas suit? Does she not know
that he knows who is naughty and nice?
What is her end goal? Seduce Santa and
get... lets see... the deed to a platinum mine?
Not the precious metals themselves, but the
mine? Does this bimbo know what goes into
successful mining operations?
7) JINGLE BELL ROCKBobby Helms
Amy Grant
Arcade Fire
Ashanti
Billy Idol
Brian SetzerChubby Checker
The Chipmunks
Eddie Rabbit
The Fall
Geri Halliwell
Hilary Duff
Johnny Mathis
Jonas BrothersKD Lang
Lou Rawls
Neil Diamond
Hall & Oates
The Platters
Rascal Flatts
Wayne Newton
These are just some of the artists that
have seen fit to carouse with the jezebel of the
Christmas song world. You will hear this song
no less than seven hundred times before New
Years Day. And its not good. For Gods sake,
Jingle Bells isnt good, and adding rock seems
to make it even more banal and meaningless.
The words Jingle and Bell appear 19 times
each. Its a mobius strip of a song. Kill it.
6) WONDERFUL
CHRISTMASTIMEPaul McCartney
trades in a baby
grand for the demo
key on a Casio
keyboard for the
entirety of this song,
and also forgets how
to play it. Time stops
while listening to this
song, its so repetitive.The universe will
have ended and the
dinging and donging
of the psychotic choir
of children will
continue ad infinitum.
Also, if your song
tells me that the day,
or the season, or the
feeling, only comes
once a year, you lose.
5) I WANT A HIPPOPOTOMUS
FOR CHRISTMASSousa-esque marches played underneath
the shrieking demands of an abused
eleven-year-old obviously forced to sing
this song so her untalented hack of a
stage mom could vicariously live for a few
seconds is not my idea of Christmas music.
Also, you cant build a hippo in a toyshop,
so Santas breaking his back for this one,
and the lyric Id feed him there and wash
him there and give him his massage
makes me feel ill.
4) SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS
(WAR IS OVER)Two Beatles on this list! Good lord. While Pauls
effort was brain-crushingly dull and repetitive,
Johns trumps it in those regards while adding
in a heaping spoonful of misery and guilt. And
so this is Christmas, and what have you done?
The world is so wrong?! Yes, enjoy your little
pagan celebration of
consumerism; dontforget, everyone else is
miserable and dying!
Keep that in the back
of your mind when
Grandma opens her
new tea cozy. Dont
let her enjoy it, make
sure shes actively
supporting the aid to
Djibouti. Is she thinking
what have you
done? She better be!
And thats only halfway
through the song!
What did we ever doto you, Lennon?
3) ROCKIN AROUND THECHRISTMAS TREEThis song needs to go away. Something
must be done. And yet no one seems to
understand. Wonderful, talented, and clearly
intelligent musicians like Hannah Montana
and Aly & AJ (whoever the #### they are)
dont understand that when they do their pop
or, God PLEASE forbid, country covers of
this song, that they are re-animating a long
dead corpse; a shuffling plague on mankind,
releasing its hollow, cavernous moan from
long-decrepit lungs. A zombified song that
should have decomposed years ago, yet,
like all zombies, it seems to gets its license
of life renewed when the winter freezes its
aged body. The only way to stop a seemingly
unstoppable force is with equally powerful
force. We must rise. We must.
I dont like songs that tell me how to
feel. I will not get a sentimental feeling
when I hear voices singing lets be jolly.
You know why? I tried finding a song in
which those words appear in that order:
it doesnt exist. If it does, its not a good
enough song to warrant sentimentality, so
there! And dont get me started on the whole
Christmas Party Hop or the ####ing newold fashioned way.
This is why suicide rates (allegedly) triple
this time of year. This song.
2) GRANDMA GOT RUNOVER BY A REINDEERFor the horrors of this song to really sink
in, youve got to read the lyrics and watchthe video. I wont go into detail, you can
find both readily online, but here are
some highlights:
You can say theres no such thing
as Santa, but as for me and Grandpa,
we believe!
This CHILDRENS song, in the first refrain,
spills the beans on the whole Santa conspiracy.
Screw you, Elmo, I got a traumatized six year
old and were only 15 seconds in.
There were hoof prints on her forehead,
and incriminating Claus marks on her back.
CLAUS marks. Thats how it is spelled in the
real lyrics. CLAUS. Which means Santa either
mangled Grandmas body with his bare hands,
or violated the corpse after she was run over by
his apparently low-flying sleigh. Ugh.
In the final refrain of the music video,
we see the children GRUESOMELY REENACT
THE EVENTS OF GRANDMAS MURDER
WITH THEIR TOYS. To Hell with this family
and this song.
1) CHRISTMAS SHOESYou make it through this song once and no
explanation will be necessary. Make sure you
listen in a room with low ceilings.
Look what I got out of that old sucker THISyear! #santababy
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Dear Mexican: Te other day, my
Italian boyfriend and I were sitting in
a cafe in Santa Monica. He asked me
an interesting question: If you had
the choice to be any nationality in the
world, which one would you choose?
Being the proud Latina that I am, I said,
Mexican. Ten he said, Why? What
have Mexicans done that is so great?
Te only come back I could think of was
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Pleasehelp me come up with more reasons
why I should be proud to be a Mexican.
Smitten with Salami
Dear Wabette: Since its the holidays, and
the Mexican is in a giving spirit gracias to all
the tamales de rajas con queso in his panza
and the bacanora in his bloodstream, I will be
kind contigo. While you say youre proud of
being Latina, you also say you have little clue
why you should feel this way, so its obvious
youre a pocha (an assimilated Mexican, for
those of ustedes who arent regular readers
man, am I a charitable chingn this season!).
Look at my column from last week to
catch up on books thatll make you proud
of being a mexicana, then go hang out with
the undocumented students, whose courage
and drive will shut up that Italian pendejo
forever. Finally, salami folds easily under
pressure, while chorizo stays firm in a torta
or a tacojust sayin.
Dear Mexican: Te one thing that
has me puzzled is what is the deal with
the old guy in the bumblebee suit? Tey
make fun of him on Te Simpsons, and
I laugh, but I do not know why. Some
version of Bumblebee Guy, usually
some old fella cracking jokes, is always
buzzing into a show. Please enlighten.
Muchacho Blanco Estpido
Dear Stupid Gabacho Boy: Name of
the character was El Chapuln Colorado
The Red Grasshopper. Played by Roberto
Gmez Bolaos, the legendary Mexican
comic who went by the nickname Chespirito
(Little Shakespeare) and died last month.
Dont you already got my book, where
I explain all this? Oh, wait: Christmas
charityif you can prove to me you sent
me this question (which no doubt has
lingered in the Ask a Mexican! stacks all
these years), Ill send you an autographed
copy of my book.
See folks? This is why you should read
my columna every week, gentle readers
you never know when I might be borracho
enough to start giving out stufflike a
sneak preview of FOXs animated show,
Bordertown! Details to come
HAPPY 2015!: So ends another year
of this pinche columna, and I want to thank
ustedes for another year of questions, rants,
love and hate. Your humble Mexican is going
to man the rancho by himself the rest of
the year so all his newspaper compadres y
comadres can spend the holidays on vacation,so ustedes will read a Best Of edition next
week, with a new level of DESMADRE for the
first week of the ao Nuevo.
Gracias, dont drink and drive, and all the
Mexican wants for Christmas from ustedes is
for you to follow all my social media accounts
below. Oh, and read my column both online
and in the print edition of whatever newspaper
is near your casadont let alt-weeklies go the
way of Cuauhtmoc, cabrones.
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On Hiring Your Own PoliceWith two police officers shot in New York,
its hard to get online without seeing lots of
finger-pointing going on. Let me be clear
that those notdoing the finger-pointing this
time are the very people who weredoing
the finger-pointing when Democrat US
Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot
in Arizona back in 2011. I suspect I know
why that is, and it tells you something
about character but even though what
was said about police officers before this
incident was far more inflammatory than
anything Sarah Palin has ever said, I haveno intent to point fingers. There are plenty
of crazy people out there, and occasionally
one of them will do something truly awful.
So, instead of using this column to
berate people for their hypocrisy or make
accusations, I thought I would talk about
a possible way that this might have been
avoided. The largest complaint about the
police has been that they are not beingheld accountable for their actions. You
can hold any opinion on the shooting of
Brown or death of Garner and still agree
with this. That the police are afforded
a certain amount of deference in the
execution of their duties and a certain
amount of credibility when facing grand
juries seems unquestionable to me. There
are good reasons for this, but it does
create a climate where police are treated
different from ordinary citizens, and this
can and has created an atmosphere of
animosity for many.
At least in this case, an anarcho-
capitalist solution might have avoided
the problem.
Imagine for a moment that you hired
your own police force. If there was any
reason that you were unhappy with theirservice, you could simply fire them. Thats
real accountability; the type of accountability
you will never get from government.
I imagine that right about now at least
half of you are laughing. Thats ok. Ill
give you a second to catch your breath
before I go on.
Mitt Romney was right when he said,
I like to be able to fire people whoprovide services to me. Not surprisingly,
people misunderstood, but the idea is the
cornerstone of economic freedom. When
I hire someone to do something for me,
I do so directly, and I retain the right to
fire them if I think theyre doing a poor
job. This is not how government works,and this is exactly why private action is
better for the individual than government
action. Government decides if some
service is being provided well not by
looking at my satisfaction, or even the
satisfaction of the electorate, but instead
by looking at what benefits them most
politically. In almost all cases, this means
that the service will be continued. In fact,when a ser vice is being performed poorly,
the traditional government solution is to
provide additional funding.
The reason for this is simple and
was illustrated many years ago by Milton
Friedman: There are four ways in which
you can spend money. You can spend
your own money on yourself. When you
do that, why then you really watch out
what youre doing, and you try to get the
most for your money. Then you can spend
your own money on somebody else. For
example, I buy a birthday present for
someone. Well, then Im not so careful
about the content of the present, but Im
very careful about the cost. Then, I can
spend somebody elses money on myself.
And if I spend somebody elses money on
myself, then Im sure going to have a good
lunch! Finally, I can spend somebody elses
money on somebody else. And if I spend
somebody elses money on somebody
else, Im not concerned about how much
it is, and Im not concerned about what
I get. And thats government. And thats
close to 40% of our national income.
Not only is it true that when I spend
my money pursuing my own interests thatI am more careful, but it is also true that I
tend to be more proactive about ensuring
that I get what I want. I dont spend money
with people I dont like or who insult me
(unless, of course, government forces me
to). I certainly dont spend money with
people who abuse me. And yet, this is the
very problem that many of the protesters
are complaining about.In a truly free market, you would not
have to worry about racist police in a
minority area; there wouldnt be any. In
a truly free market, the moment there was
any hint that this was happening, either
the person in question would be fired or
the company providing the service wouldbe. That is not to say that events like the
Michael Brown shooting or the death of
Eric Garner would not happen, but there
wouldnt be any need for protests because
there would be real accountability.
Such a system is not as far away as
one might imagine either. We already
see how the wealthy in this country often
employ private security. The myth that sucha system would create a Mad-Max like
dystopia is easily enough disproven by the
fact that such private security already exists
and rarely results in substantial problems.
Likewise, homeowners associations
frequently use private security firms.
Implementing a much greater use of private
security would not require the wholesale
dismantling of the state (though Id love
that); it would only require that people
begin to take more personal responsibility
for their security.
Such a system would also not be as
expensive as most assume. Economies
of scale would begin to take effect. We
could expect that there would be large
corporations that would be interested in
providing this service. All that would be
required would be to make such security
services easier to apply and to remove
obstacles that create a government
monopoly in the area of security.
I dont expect that this column will
change anyones mind. Instead, Im
hoping that it will open one or two. I
hope that people will think about ways
that we might privatize policing and
other government services, will find theirobjections and ask questions about them.
(You can ask me through the TX Citizen
Facebook page.) Consider looking into
the idea of stateless systems, and then ask
your self whether you wou ld be bet ter off
with the government taking care of you or
taking care of yourself.
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