"Well, crud! This wasn't in the handbook!"
Posted on 09/13/2005 8:03:09 PM PDT by ChefKeith
McLennan County Commissioners OK New Restrictions On Parking Near Bush Ranch
McLennan County Commissioners voted 4-1 Tuesday in favor of an ordinance to extend restrictions on parking or stopping on nearly 25 miles of roads near the President’s Central Texas ranch.
The ordinance stems from complaints about the anti-war protesters who gathered alongside a rural McLennan County roadside during the President’s August vacation.
Remaining protesters argued that the restriction is unconstitutional, but commissioners rejected the claim, although Commissioner Joe Mashek did cast a lone vote against the ordinance because of concerns about constitutionality.
A second measure that would prohibit erecting tents or portable toilets along roadways was tabled until next week.
Residents complained of traffic back ups and expressed concerns about safety as hundreds of protesters flocked to Crawford to join Cindy Sheehan, the Vacaville, Calif. woman who was demanding a meeting with the President about the death of her 24-year-old son Casey, a 1st Cavalry Division soldier who was killed in Iraq in 2004.
Ping
"Well, crud! This wasn't in the handbook!"
Should have been done in November, 2000.
Heh Heh!
And here I was trying not to post any pics of her.
Yup, the Constitution specifically prohibits county parking ordinances. This Einstein candidate did his best to defend our hard fought right to park in a culvert.
Thanks a bunch sparky.
He may have just sealed his political future in Mc Clennon County, guess we'll see next election.
LOL!!!
Oh, too bad and so sorry the lefties couldn't get anyone to hang around!
Following our rally a couple of weekends ago, we policed the area around the Crawford Community Center and picked up everything, down to scraps of paper and bottled water caps. I took about a dozen p/u truck loads to the dumpster. One EMS volunteer worked so hard following the event he was overcome by heat cramps and needed IV fluids.
Thank You
I knew that FReepers would clean up the places they were.
I wish that I could have been there but I had to work.
"Commissioner Joe Mashek did cast a lone vote against the ordinance because of concerns about constitutionality."
Commissioner Joe Mashek did cast a lone vote against the ordinance because of concerns about constitutionality.
So... it is unconstitutional that I believe that riff-raff do not have the right to set up camp next to my property and continually harass my family and me? I guess that is freedom of speech? What if I sent the Hells Angels to her front yard?
These people are a security threat to the president and America.
How do these people survive? Are they independently wealthy?
Subject: The Real Cindy Sheehan.. This appears to be correct information.
What is most interesting to me is that the press gives this little bunch of people who are protesting with Cindy so much air time without discussing Cindy's background. This is a case of more press bias. It has been pointed out on just a couple of media outlets that Cindy divorced her first husband and left her son with him to be raised while she became a political activist for the Democratic Party. She had very little to do with her son in his growing years. She remarried. The 1st husband remarried. The original father raised the son with his new wife. They miss their son and mourn the loss of his life. They have stated that they are very proud of their son and that they agree with the stance of America in Iraq and on terror. They said that their son was eager to serve and to go fight the terrorists in Iraq.
He volunteered. How many news stations carried their interview? Not many.
So the son dies in Iraq and then Cindy shows up to make a stink. She gets an audience with Bush. That was not enough. She goes to Crawford and demands another audience. How many news stations carry the ongoing saga of Cindy?
Practically all of them. Cindy didn't care about her son. She let another woman raise him. Cindy doesn't care about the other soldiers in Iraq. Cindy cares about her liberal, feminist agenda and about using the death of her son to lobby against Republicans and Bush. And the press is helping her. Why?
Then 2 days ago, Cindy's 2nd husband filed for a divorce from Cindy. Cindy sounds like a feminist opportunist who did not have the sense of responsibility to even raise her own son. It looks like her 2nd husband is fed up with Cindy. We middle Americans should be fed up with Cindy also. We should be fed up with the press. They manipulate us into their "group think" and into the responses that they want on their polls.
H. A. Brown
Superb. I didn't know about that cleanup effort, but good for all of you who volunteeered for it.
You should probably ditch the e-mail and advise those that sent it to you to do the same.
Read the entire debunking here[snip]
The piece quoted above, criticizing Ms. Sheehan's alleged lack of involvement in her son's upbringing after divorcing his father, is something fabricated out of whole cloth, evidently the product of someone's confusing a completely different family with the Sheehans. Cindy Sheehan and her husband, Patrick, were high school sweethearts who wed while both were in their early 20's and who have been married to each other for over 28 years. (Neither has ever been married to anyone else.) The couple had four children together, of whom Casey was the oldest. Both parents raised Casey together, first in the southern California community of Norwalk and later in the northern California town of Vacaville, where the Sheehans moved when Casey was 14.
Thanks, You're right I should have checked snopes.
Officials ban parking along roads near Bush's ranch
Commissioner says it's an issue of safety, not the First Amendment
Associated Press
WACO - Two weeks after a fallen soldier's mother left her makeshift anti-war campsite along the road leading to President Bush's ranch, McLennan County commissioners have banned parking along 23 miles of county roads in the area.
Before the 4-1 vote Tuesday, Commissioner Ray Meadows said about 80 residents in the rural area complained of blocked roads, loud music and public health and safety concerns during the 26-day protest near Bush's ranch outside Crawford, about 20 miles west of Waco.
Before commissioners voted, they held a public hearing and saw slides showing traffic congestion.
"It's not a First Amendment issue. It's a safety issue," Meadows said, adding that the "no parking" signs could be put up this week.
The lone standout, Commissioner Joe Mashek, read aloud the First Amendment and said limiting parking along large portions of 13 streets is "too extreme."
Cindy Sheehan began camping in ditches near Bush's ranch Aug. 6, vowing to stay until his monthlong vacation ended unless he talked to her about the war that claimed her son Casey's life.
Her vigil drew thousands of fellow protesters, counter rallies of Bush supporters, and sightseers whose parked cars stretched for miles on the side of the winding, two-lane road.
Commissioners deferred action on Meadows' proposal to prohibit residing, erecting shelters or placing sewage receptacles in right-of-way areas on all county roads. So for now, camping in the ditches is not banned.
"They can do everything that they have been doing, except they can't park there," County Judge Jim Lewis said. "You can still protest; you can still march. You can do the whole nine yards. Just don't block the traffic, and you can't park in that particular area."
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3354536
>> I saw a post a while back that the lefties wanted volunteer's to help clean up the pig stye they created.
Anyplace people have camped at for two weeks will need some cleaning up.
>> They should be prosecuted for littering and that is a $50 -1000 fine in Texas, per occurrence.
Well, not if someone volunteers to clean it up, duh.
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