Sunday, 15 February 2026

$2000 A Day Fines With Alex Jones [cbLJB4yZRC4]

A local investigation reveals how Austin bureaucrats weaponize code enforcement against citizens while city council members maintain dilapidated properties without penalty.

By Mike Hanson Archives | 15m listen | 4 chapters
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About this episode

Alex Jones exposes a pattern of selective code enforcement within the Austin City Council and the Austin Health and Human Services Department. An investigation into a local council member’s two residential properties reveals structural disrepair, roof tarps, and dense overgrowth that stand in stark contrast to the aggressive fines leveled against average citizens. While the city ignores these dilapidated official residences, homeowners like Mr. Ellingson face $2,000 daily penalties for minor infractions.

The Austin American-Statesman published a front-page defense of these municipal tactics, utilizing alarmist language regarding sewage and crime to justify property liens. These bureaucratic maneuvers allegedly target elderly residents to facilitate property seizures through unpayable debt. Neighbors confirm the council member’s ownership of the neglected sites, yet the Health Department continues to prioritize revenue collection over public safety. Critics argue these departments function as a revenue mechanism, forcing residents into unpaid labor to maintain city-adjacent creeks and parks under the threat of financial ruin.

Jeff Davis and Alex Jones document the jungle-like conditions of the political elite’s rental units while the local media remains silent. The report calls for a total refocusing of city resources toward restaurant inspections and food safety. This segment highlights the growing tension between Austin’s regulatory bureaucracy and the property rights of its most vulnerable citizens.


CHAPTER 01 / 4 Discussion

Austin City Council Member Property Hypocrisy Investigation

Alex Jones investigates an Austin City Council member's residence, documenting overgrown vegetation and structural disrepair. The report highlights a double standard where the City Health and Human Services Department threatens citizens like Mr. Ellingson with $2,000 daily fines for minor infractions while ignoring the dilapidated state of a council member's two properties. Neighbors confirm the council member owns the homes, which feature tarps on roofs and dense brush.

austin city council· health department· selective enforcement· environmental services· property fines

00:00 I love Mike Hanson Archives. Here we are at a council member's house, home not a home. Here we are in the council members' house down here in Austin and I'm not going to tell you their address or who they are but you oughta see how overgrown their house is. This is just ridiculous! Very nice little neighborhood over there, I will tell ya but it's just crazy We'll just wait until you see how overgrown it is. Hell, look at that house! That's more overgrown... Look, that's not the council members' house but look, that's more overgrown than Mr. Ellingson's. It was crazy. I think it makes me mad as to how the paper countered with that story. We came out and did a story about Mr. Ellingson being harassed by health department and environmental services and two days later there was a front page

00:54 thing on the health department saying how wonderful they are stopping crime sewage and helping the children in east Austin. Everything, health department did it here we are folks the right wing evil look at it this is a council member now we should probably slap up some footage later of Mr Ellingson's and show you that this is 10 times more overgrown than his property selective enforcement selective enforcement and we're not attacking this council member we're just saying hey Maybe they should know about the hypocrisy in their city that they run. That we've elected them to protect us from their own minions Even the driveway's overgrown I mean, look at that And folks, the camera can't even catch what's going on in this yard and it's not our business We don't care! I don't think it's a problem But the statesman does The health department does They agree $2,000 a day fines for noncompliance Better take their home Better bulldoze it Out of control

02:04 Well, as you can see total hypocrisy at its best. Absolutely out of control. Think I ought to go up there? Again we're not going to tell you the address down here... ...of this council member and we're not gonna tell you who she is but just for yourself take a look at the hypocrisy much worse than Mr. Ellingson's And it isn't a question of, has she done something wrong? She hasn't done something wrong. But she needs to know what her city's doing that the City Health and Human Services Environmental Services Division is doing. And Austin Differentiation has really been covering up this story that we did. It was wrong. Something needs to be done. As the sun sets here in South Austin hypocrisy still continues and hypocrisy is dangerous because fire

03:06 is the outcome of this total hypocrisy. Tangled jungle with a tarp to keep the water out of the roof. The neighbors have verified this is a council members home They own both the houses here and they're both in total disrepair and overgrown So that's the hypocrisy of America now here folks And I think the council member needs to answer up why they're allowing

03:49 the health department to go around terrorizing citizens in the name of environmentalism at $2,000 a day fines for noncompliance. So $2000 a day for non-compliance and there's mosquitos swarming the area I've been bit on my back neck and forehead There are just big huge gobs of bushes all over the place And this is just incredible I mean that's what it is, what else can it be but total hypocrisy. And again we're not attacking the council members we just got a tip from one of our viewers one of our many spies spread around town faxed us information and came over asked some neighbors if this was where the council member lives she's not coming out right now I guess I'm sure the police are on their way but that doesn't matter were law abiding citizens bringing you real news see whats good for the goose its not necessarily good for gander

CHAPTER 02 / 4 Discussion

Bureaucratic Overreach and Selective Enforcement in Austin

The investigation continues into the Austin Health Department's alleged use of citizens as "slave labor" to maintain city-owned creeks and parks. Comparisons are drawn between the "jungle-like" conditions of a council member's home and the pristine property of Mr. Ellingson, who faced aggressive enforcement. The commentary characterizes the Health Department's actions as "Gestapo-esque" and accuses bureaucrats of using fines as a revenue collection mechanism rather than for public safety.

austin· health department· gestapo-esque· environmentalism· property rights

04:45 Well, we're not going to tell you whose homes these are that this person owns both of with the tarps and the leaking roof in the jungle. You can't even see the front door a hundred times worse than Mr Ellingson's but again I'd say it's her right at home she is not in the homeowners community where you sign up clause This will just give you a hint though who the council member is They are in public office We should be able to tell you about Yeah, it looks like a jungle. In fact I think I saw a great macaw parrot flying around in there or something. Oh Lord! When are we going to get some peace from these bureaucrats? Compare this house to the council members' house right here. Incredible! Look at that. It's a Tarzan would be home here and again we're not saying it's a problem We're not saying anything should happen but the health department is trying to use Austin citizens for slave labor to clean out

05:41 city parks, city creeks that are on the borders of other people's homes. It has got to stop! Now compare this to Mr Ellingson's home in a few minutes we'll show you shot at that and remember he was threatened with $2,000 fine if he did not remove objectionable material whatever that could be I'm not sure but it sounds very Gestapo-esque and open ended like bureaucrats like Hi i am Alex Jones here in Amazon River Basin No I mean a council members home To be absolutely serious with everybody, we had a lot of neighbors come out and ask us what we were doing. And once we told them they said yes it is ridiculous that the health department is out terrorizing people and they did point out the incredible hypocrisy of the council members home having to tarp over the roof and the vines in the jungle hanging out of trees but again this for your best interest or the children Tarzan and Cheetah look at them happily living on top of the roof

07:02 Yeah, I think the health department needs to give a visit over here. It's funny, from the health department to the council members' home down the street they always have the most overgrown... From their homes to bureaucratic offices. I mean last week y'all saw that health department falling down walls garbage trash junk fire ants six-foot weeds six inch grass everywhere and again what didn't go out there stirring up trouble with them it's them harassing citizens so remember that bureaucrats

07:40 at their homes, king bureaucrats like the council members and then on down to uh... to their money collection sites like the city health department on 15 Waller Street are absolute pits because they really don't care about things being nice. They care about an easy ride taking some of your hard-earned money and telling you how to live and ushering in their wonderful utopia now back to Jeff Davis show Get a shot of that Speak out against evil now or submit in silence later. Yeah, but it's so fashionable not to speak out nowadays It's so much watching here on YouTube here On my kids and archives and we also have a new one here

CHAPTER 03 / 4 Discussion

Austin American-Statesman Media Bias Allegations

The Austin American-Statesman is accused of publishing a front-page defense of the Health Department shortly after the original investigation into selective enforcement aired. The newspaper reportedly used "buzzwords" like crime and sewage to justify $2,000 daily fines and property liens. The report challenges the media to investigate the council member's rental properties, which allegedly feature holes in the roof and extreme overgrowth, rather than targeting average citizens.

austin american-statesman· media bias· property liens· investigative reporting· double standards

11:08 15-20 foot vines that hang out of the trees and run across the ground, and they broke a down truck in her yard. And we also found out from the neighbors next door that she owns the rent house right across street from our house with a tarp on the roof. You'll see some footage of that. Yes holes in the roof, a veritable jungle around the area And there hasn't been any health department out there. That is the problem, is hypocrisy here in town? Also show you Mr. Ellingson's property. Mr. Ellingson did zero he has three inch grass English ivy growing on the trees just like this council member does but his house isn't one-tenth as overgrown as hers

11:52 But this isn't the story. The story is, is this isn't the city's job to prime people's lives And also, this Thursday The Austin American Statesman did a story three days after or less than three days after we aired the original story about Mr. Ellingson being harassed by the City Health Department and Environmental Services Division Less than two days after they did a front page article saying it was because of crime and high weeds that $2,000 a day fines must be levied against people's homes and the liens against homes must be done That's fine. They need to go out and check the council members' homes, and put levies against their houses then." You see folks? It's time that you give your council members a call. It's time you raise hell and say deal with the murderers first, deal with the carjackers, and the rapists in the fondlers before you go around harassing others. And then a little bit later we'll show

12:42 shots again of Mr. Ellingson's home and you'll just be shocked to see the difference between his home and then this council members home holes in roofs, tarps on her property and then how she lives across the street it looks like Tarzan is fixing to come swinging through trees at any second so again this is not vindictive This is us trying trying to wake people up in Austin To see that there are double standards I mean what is the deal here? If you go down and check out the health department and environmental services on 15th Waller Street. I heard they cleaned it up now, but when we went down that Sunday before Monday when we did the story there was fallen-down walls, there were six foot weeds, there was a six inch grass everywhere trash cigarette butts fire ant beds! i'm not down there harassing them i'm just going to show you the fact i'm not levying fines on people that work there...not even trying to like they do to normal citizens

CHAPTER 04 / 4 Discussion

Health Department Revenue Tactics and Elderly Exploitation

The discussion shifts to the financial motivations of the Austin Health Department, alleging that $2,000-a-day fines are designed to seize houses through liens. Specific claims are made that these tactics often target older Americans who may struggle to defend their property rights. The segment concludes with a plea for the City Council to refocus the Health Department on food safety and restaurant inspections rather than harassing homeowners, before signing off for the Jeff Davis Show.

health department· property liens· elderly exploitation· jeff davis show· austin

13:34 And then to see the paper jump in and defend them, and make up lies for them. And say sewage! Children! Crime goes up! East Austin! See all these little buzzwords folks? That's what it is all about getting you off target making excuses for hypocrisy that is the essence of hypocrisy and bureaucracy out of control. And also the neighbors came up to us when we went out this council member's neighborhood, and they said over and over yeah you know we have nothing against her but that's ridiculous! You know her rent house across the street that she rents out has a blue tarp on the roof? We'll show ya cut of that looks like a jungle can't even see the front door. You know criminals could hide in there just like the statesman said last Thursday

14:18 And then you actually see her home and it's just atrocious. And there are mosquitos flying around everywhere, but I say leave her alone! Let the council member live her life. Council member when you hear about this please understand we're not attacking you We're not being vindictive Please repeat please call the health department and tell them to get off people's back Make sure there's not cockroaches in our food at restaurants make sure that things like that are being done stop But I understand You want to shake people down, Health Department. There's a lot of money in these $2,000-a-day fines and liens on houses. You've taken quite a few houses haven't you? Especially from older Americans who are sometimes not too sharp. Yeah that's your policy isn't it making people clean up creeks and subdivisions behind their homes that they don't even own yeah like my grandparents. That's real nice! Hello folks this is Jeff Davis with the legendary Jeff Davis Show from Central Texas USA

15:15 and I love my Canson Archives. Peace out, man!