City Of Gonzales Texas Outlaws Garage Sales [CxliYOCAZJ8]

00:15 Yeah, I wanted to let you know what the reason why they didn't make it was. We had a last minute kind of tyranny deal going on down here in Gonzales. The city council just passed and didn't even let the public know whatsoever that they were just gonna outlaw garage sales here And that's kind of a big deal here because you got a lot of poor people here that That, uh, you know use garage sales to pay their electricity bills or something like that Mike I want I want to make sure I understand goodness are cracking down on those garage sales so you're saying that the City Council of the Gonzales City Council is

00:52 voted to ban garage sales. Absolutely, and not only that I talked to the police chief his name is Tim Crowe and i said you know they're selling crack cocaine on in the middle of the street uh... in particular neighborhood twenty four hours a day seven days a week but you're gonna go out give little old ladies five hundred dollar fines for having a garage sale and he says yes I am Mike And he is insistent on going out and giving $500 fines. People don't even know that's a law! It's been a law for two weeks, we didn't even know about it and you got people that put ads in the paper they're gonna have dozens of garage sales this weekend and they don't even know its been banned. What is the fine? Five hundred dollars But you can get out of it by doing what

01:44 You can only have, supposedly have two garage sales a year now and you have to pay the city go get a permit and post it on your door or post it in your yard. So now we we have to go Austin don't even have this law! I'm fighting every which way but loose on this going around trying to inform the people The paper didn't even know about it Jeff Well let me say this Mike We put that ordinance on your wall All did you good on your Facebook? Well all you have to do is go to Jeff Davis Facebook. Yeah, I wanted to mention it to you Mike Right now at least Karen and I are coming to come are going to be a come and take it well I'm just real disappointed Maybe we can go over to the City Council like we did the last time and do

02:36 Do an interview, do a discussion about this. Well you know I'm disappointed you know they supposedly come and take it's about when the Mexican government were taking too many of our rights away in the Texians got mad and revolted i think its about time that they've taken to many of our rights away and we revolt again how bout that because im going to city council tomorrow night and Im gonna revolt if i'm the only one there a standing up for liberty i'm going to be there and tell him how bad they are and uh... have discussed that i am with this you know it's not the little bang but they're doing too many little things to take our liberty in right away well don't don't ignore the gonzalez canon

03:23 I've been down there today already. That's why it didn't show up I've been at both papers trying to get them to do a big story on this because if we stand for this will fall for anything Yeah, that's the way I look at it because this is a big thing Austin don't even have so-called ordinance. Why is a small town like Gonzales with 7,000 people and there's a lot of Jeff... There are a lot of people on the way below the poverty line here and they'll have a garage sale every month just to pay their electricity bill or something

03:59 I mean, that's what people do down here. That's a tradition down here for 200 years people have been doing garage sales They've had horses for 200 years then they got the ordinance where we can't have any horses now So now they're going out supposedly giving $100 fines for that now even though it's not even in the ordinance to do that They're scaring people up again about that too so you know even though we got crack cocaine being sold right on the street which You know, if you some people like it. Maybe they have a permit. Maybe they have a fire. Yeah maybe they have but literally Jeff I can take you over to a certain part of town and they will run up and sell you crack cocaine But the police chief is not worried about that where's the whatever he said? He says not worried about that He's worried about going to giving these people $500 fine for having a garage sale this weekend

04:51 That's what his priority is going to be this weekend. Is two, Mr Tim Crowe going out there giving $500 fines for these people I talked the city secretary today and she says well we do need a new water plant Mike And so I said oh So you're gonna use this as revenue generation to get a new water plant by the way our water plant has crapped out So they need to do a new water plant here Wouldn't that be paid for with your water bill? It should have been paid for. Believe it or not, there's an oil company that is drilling underneath Gonzales Texas and they gave the city over $600,000 just for the right to use their streets

05:35 to drill underneath their streets here in Gonzales. So they have plenty of money, where it's going that's what we wanna know because so many people has been fired already in the last couple months they don't know where the money went and now it just seems like every time that the people are the fall guys now we can't even have a freaking garage sale without having to go down to the city hall and get a permit I tell you what, everybody has a garage sale on one day and nobody goes to get the permit to see if they can take us all to jail. That's what i want to know that's what i'm planning on doing in the future Before we get off the phone Mike tell us about the come and take it festival coming up here in Gonzales

06:24 It's the first weekend of the month. It'll be the 1st and 2nd of October, it supposed to be the first full weekend of October. And... Great celebration! It is a great celebration but I'm not feeling too happy about celebrating our freedom from Mexico when there are no Mexicans on our city council but they So-called people City Council of Gonzales. I feel like we need to have another come and take it against them is what? I think we need do We can get them all out of office That's what we need to do because they are just completely destroying our way of life here in this small town Completely destroying it and then top it off city managers from

07:11 Timbuktu or wherever they're coming up with these city managers paying them a hundred and how much is it? They're paying $129,000 a year. A city manager for 7,000 population in Gonzales? Yeah, paying them $129,000 a year when the average person in Gonzalez makes $15,000 a year This is outrageous. Outrageous! By the way, I want that job. This is a poor town It's getting a little bit richer because you know oil coming in here But there are still a lot of people that are way below the poverty line and this is another nail in the coffin Somebody has to administer these garage sale permits

07:59 They're gonna do what? I said somebody has to administer these garage sale permits. Well, we have two code inspectors here in Gonzales you know 7 000 people two code inspectors i called the code inspector today he didn't know anything about this this was new to him so they passed this without even the code inspectors knowing No, you're you just been talking to everybody about this You think there's a water cooler and my camps instruct. You got it because I've been around the water cooler today baby I've been everywhere talking about this. I'm stirring this up just like I did the horse ordinance

08:35 yes yeah any of these ordinances that are against our liberty and freedom I'm not for him. And i hadn't found anybody for this the only thing that I've found that it semi could be a problem is well some people are having garage sales all year round well if they're having to garage sale all year round that's a business they can get them under another ordinance they got, not to have a business in the residential area. See it's already covered! They always go way overboard just like the horse thing... well somebody is starving their horse and then that's how they've got this horse ordinance in there. And moral busybodies that what we call them down here. A bunch of moral busybodies mind your own damn business live and let live as Terry Liberty Parker used to say.

09:24 That's what I say, Gary. Like I said Mike, I will be visiting either Saturday or Sunday Going to the come and take it fast looking for ya. Ya never did say whether there's gonna be a show next week or not I don't know The information, I was the rumors just these are all just rumors because I haven't been to any of the meetings but their rumors were That this last week was this was going to be the last show for all that Maria told you that You weren't going to have a show. Oh, that's right because well unless That's true Unless but like I say there's new information today that they may let them well. I don't know about this new information Yeah, well we'll see my I don't know I'm gonna let Nate take over here go ahead and I was reading this ordinance too and by the description of what a garage sale is the definition that they have

10:25 It would almost include internet sales out of your house, too. So if you sold something on eBay or if you sold a car out of your yard... Or if you sold something on Craigslist this could also... The wording doesn't exclude those items as far as I can tell How much does the permit cost I think it's 25 bucks isn't it? 25 bucks to have a garage Per sale is that yeah, that's in you're only allowed two garage sales per year

11:10 What exactly is posted on the Jeff Davis show Facebook? Is it a it's the ordinance. It's the whole okay good Yeah, I'll take a look at it when when I get when I get higher Yeah, I've already gotten a lot of Feedback from Facebook friends about it. It's a Lot of people are outraged about it But I also got some Some feedback from a guy in Kentucky that said that they had a similar ordinance and he said, when you get the permit the police do come and check your permit to make sure it's displayed. Oh that's nice! I feel so much safer now

11:58 What's that? I feel so much safer now. Yeah, you should read the description of why they're doing it and it is to protect us. It's to protect property values and keep everybody safe. Deny my property value to protect it. So it just way overboard. But we're gonna go out this weekend with a camera and copies of the ordinance And look for garage sales and talk to people are you really that's good idea. Yeah, yeah Okay love y'all okay so That's brand new that will hit me right I had not heard that

12:50 A new permit system for Gonzales residents. You cannot do anything without permission from the government first, even on your own home, your own property. Garage sale! Your own garage sale what you think about that Mr T? Sounds like a bunch of BS to me I mean totally ridiculous well they have to pay for that new water utility