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
