Austin Mayor Steve Adler says he’s suing for fair property appraisals. A tea party skeptic calls the legal gambit an “ill-conceived publicity stunt.”

“The mayor’s plan won’t save people money — they’re being played as saps. It’s a total gimmick,” says Mark Pulliam, a retired attorney and local political activist. Read more here...

Thanks to Mark Pullium for speaking on behalf of The Austin Tea Party.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Austin, Texas 7-23-14

Contact:
Dean Wright
The Austin Texas Tea Party
3267 Bee Caves Rd Ste 107 #222
Austin, TX 78746-6773
V: 888-676-7221 x:701
F: 888-676-7221
Dean@NewRevolutionNow.org

Travis County and the City of Austin Should Not Support Housing Illegal Alien Children

The humanitarian crisis at the border with Mexico and now deep within our country is a direct result of President Obama’s 2012 executive order, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Tens of thousands of Central American children have left their homes and families to illegally enter America. The majority of these children have been subjected to harsh and inhumane treatment while traveling to the border. Many have died trying to cross the border. There is great public concern not only for the illegal alien children but for our own children and the communities we live in.

“People are quite concerned about how this is going to impact our nation’s sovereignty, and how it is going to impact communities,” Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said. “The public health security of our nation, issues with smallpox and scabies and TB—those are true concerns for Americans and for the Border Patrol working to end this, and the National Guard who are on the border, and for the direct-care providers in these facilities trying to care for these children.”

Do we, the citizens of Travis County, really want to house and support these illegal alien children or should they be immediately sent back to their homes and families? In response to Austin Interfaith’s urging of our county and city officials to aid these illegal aliens, we would like to ask our county and city officials the following questions:

1)      Does this Council/Commission have any advance information concerning any illegal immigrants coming to our city/County? Are there any coming here and, if so, how many?

2)      Where are these illegal aliens to be housed or detained?  Will there be any public debate offered regarding the locations chosen for housing illegal aliens?

3)      Has the city/county enough financial resources to manage an influx of hundreds or thousands of non-English speaking, indigent people?  Are the enough law enforcement resources, hospital and medical services, and other civic resources funded and available to manage illegal aliens re-located to our communities?

4)      Does the city/county have a contingency/emergency plan developed to cover this specific scenario?

5)      Will the care and services available to citizens in this city/county be affected by the sudden and large influx of illegal aliens?

We encourage our county and city official to be forthright with answers to these questions and more. We encourage our county and city officials to hold public hearings and debates before acting on this important issue. We encourage all candidates running for city council and mayor to take a public stand.

We urge our local, state and federal official to take immediate steps to resend/defund DACA, to secure our border with Mexico and to send the illegal alien children back to their homes and families.

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Contributed by Paul Gelenscer

So...... the City of Austin is in discussions with the openly racist Eric Holder Dept of Justice (DOJ) over how much the DOJ is going to strong-arm out of our pockets over unsupported claims that minorities were discriminated against in hiring by the fire dept.  Since both sides of the negotiation are manned by rabid liberals, I'm sure we can expect the city to fold like a cheap suit and agree with the DOJ that minorities are victims of City of Austin oppression.  We're talking nearly $800,000 here - that's serious money for a ridiculous claim.

At issue are the results of standardized tests for firefighter jobs, which resulted in proportionately more white candidates than black or hispanic candidates passing the tests.

The DOJ letter to the city essentially acknowledges the city may have standards in place which result in disproportionate hiring of whites as long as the standards are relevant to the job.  However, in the letter the DOJ claimed that a "statistically significant" low passing rate by minorities on standard professional tests, written by a national board, is sufficient reason to conclude that the city of Austin - rabidly liberal, and inclusion obsessed Austin - has discriminated against minorities.  See the circular logic?  We can have hiring standards that result in racial imbalances as long as the process was fair, but the racial imbalance proves the process wasn't fair.  As for whether the test was relevant to the job, the DOJ doesn't include that in their determination.  They just acknowledge the law allows this, but then they ignore this requirement.

You might recognize the words "ignore" and "law" get used a lot when discussing the Obama administration.  The Obama administration ignores the law when using the IRS to intimidate political opponents, and when declaring exemptions to Obamacare when that law starts to fail, and when the law gets in the way of their desire to let illegal aliens stay in the country.  Now they're adding laws regarding valid hiring practices to the list of laws they ignore.

According to the DOJ letter to the city, the DOJ did not consider differences in time spend studying for the test, which might have shown whether the test results correlate with effort by candidates to prepared for it, rather than with racism.  Maybe the white candidates just tried harder.  By then this is Eric Holder's style - whites are assumed racist until proven innocent.