Did Greg Groogan of Fox26 let the cat out of the bag over HER Ordinance? In this October 1 report titled “Rejecting HER Ordinance will damage economy says Greater Houston Puppetship” , Groogan accidentally disclosed the opposite of the story headline —approval of HER Ordinance would damage businesses by subjecting them to speech investigation & fines by City speech police authorities over employment, business and housing decisions and $20.00 rooftop cover charge disputes on behalf of the Perpetually Aggrieved.
Greg Groogan reported:
“some business owners have expressed fear that HER Ordinance will open a Pandora’s Box of expensive discrimination claims”.
Bob Harvey of the Greater Houston Puppetship Partnership was quick to dismiss those claims as “overblown”:
“But Harvey and the partnership say those concerns are overblown because the allegations will be handled quickly and if verified will result in modest fines.”
You mean like the fines facing the Gaslamp Bar after they first get through the “quickly handled” settlement conference (gaslamp Complaint) scheduled for 3 1/2 months from now on February 19, 2016?
The Houston Press wrote of Perpetually Aggrieved Progressives who filed a suspicious lawsuit (Ball v Texas Guardian) accusing a bar employee of a heinous speech crime—communicating the policy of a $20.00 cover charge to gain access to the 3rd floor rooftop terrace at the Gaslamp.
And here’s the money quote that lays bare the naked truth about one aspect of this horrific blasphemy ordinance that if passed, would impose speech investigations & speech fines to spare the feelings of Perpetually Aggrieved Progressives (emphasis mine):
“When asked how (about?) their claim against Gaslamp with Proposition 1, Tagtmeier said;, “We’d have been able to file a complaint and there would have been an investigation done by the local authorities and they would be able to fine them as well…”
Oh and should Gaslamp close before the lawsuit is over with, the attorney of the Perpetually Aggrieved plans to still go after the assets.
The closer it gets to Election Day and the more I hear about HER Ordinance, the more it reeks of grievance-mongering Progressive politics— voter-approved government policing of speech, speech investigations, fining disagreeable speech to spare the feelings of Progressives who only preach the tolerance of diversity & thought they never practice—and lawsuits designed to encourage other opportunistic, rent-extracting money-grabbers to get their piece of the settlement pie.
And why are the three Perpetually Aggrieved Progressives now in the new HER Ordinance TV ad?
BTW—you know who this video is for.
After watching the way Bob Harvery testifies in front of City Council it reminds me of the puppet sitting on the lap of the Mayor. You can almost see Mayor Parkers mouth moving. Yvonne, I couldn’t agree with you more..
The definition of a “relatively modest fine:”
One someone else pays.
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Great report
It will be very easy to avoid fines. Don’t discriminate.
Yeah, that whole 1st amendment thing is so over rated anyway. . . .
It’s got nothing to do with the 1st Amendment. You can discriminate all you want in your private life, but if you have a business open to the public, it has to be open to all the public.