Austin Attorney Jo-Christy Brown Resigned As Bastrop’s Attorney Due To Controversy Over “Outsized Legal Fees” Is Lampasas Getting Fleeced, Too?

Jo-Christy Brown has caused me a lot of headaches over the last 5 years. The Austin attorney is constantly being used by the City of Lampasas to deny me records I feel should be made available to the taxpayers.

She has made a LOT of money doing it, too. We’ll know exactly how much soon when my Open Records Requests are answered. But I guarantee you it is in the six-figure range. She is CONSTANTLY in the city council packets for $8,000 here and $7,000 there (see page 34, see page 48, see page 50, etc).

But what I DIDN’T know until recently was that she “resigned” as attorney for the City of Bastrop due to public complaints about her “outsized legal fees.”

Here is part of the article:

Bastrop’s attorney quits, Pine Forest case on hold

THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2016 BY JO CLIFTON

Seeing the proverbial handwriting on the wall, Bastrop’s longtime attorney, Jo-Christy Brown, resigned, effective immediately, at Tuesday night’s Bastrop City Council meeting. Brown’s tenure has been controversial since at least last December, when the public began to complain about the outsized legal fees the city was paying.

City records indicate that Brown personally received more than $400,000 in legal fees from Bastrop in 2015 and at least $150,000 so far this year. She also oversaw the hiring of other outside counsel to litigate the city’s numerous lawsuits. As the Austin Monitor pointed out in April, Bastrop spent more than $1 million on legal fees over the 15 months starting on Jan. 1, 2015.

Brown’s departure was a victory for Council Member Gary Schiff, who advocated for hiring in-house counsel this winter and spring but could not get fellow Council members to second his motion prior to the May election. It was also a victory for new Council Member Deborah Jones, who promised to work to reduce the city’s outside legal fees when she was elected in May.

Jones had put an item on Tuesday night’s agenda to consider, discuss and possibly take action “regarding JC Brown, city attorney.” However, Brown handed Council her resignation following an executive session before that item came up.

LEDC, Talbert, Monroe and City Attorney JC Brown All Playing Games To Avoid Releasing Name of Business Pork Prospect.

What a joke.

Remember when former-mayor Talbert (now the President of the Lampasas Economic Dunces Club and pilferer of $971,000 in City funds for her Business Pork) blabbered on about how “transparent” her administration was?

“I feel like (City) staff and Council oughta be tasked with being accountable to answer on the spot…and..uh…I would be comfortable doing that….that’s transparency at its finest…is…you know…we don’t put off a question, we answer it on the spot”

Yeah. That was all a lie. It was a lie when she was mayor and it’s a lie now that she is in charge of the Keystone Kop organization known as the LEDC. The same LEDC that has squandered over $7 million tax dollars on a “Business Park” that has sat empty for nearly twenty years.

Austin attorney JC Brown has decided to waste another month by refusing my request and sending it all to the Texas AG to see what he says about it. Last time they played this idiot game, I was vindicated. This is just a big stalling tactic.

Among JC’s more ridiculous arguments:

“The City notes that the Requestor does not request or identify and [sic] document or material he desires the City to produce. Thus, the City has no material or document to provide in response to the Requestor’s ORR”

Ho ho ho. Get it? I didn’t request a SPECIFIC document. I just asked for a name. Of course, I CAN’T request a specific document because it is all secret and hidden away in “executive session.” See how that works? So clever. A nice Catch-22 for me.

Then she goes on to argue that releasing the name of the prospect would cause a “bidding war” with other cities, as they also tried to lure the prospect to THEIR business parks.

Hey! Burnet Has an Economic Development Corp Too! And Land!

I’ve got news for you. Any “prospect” worth their salt is going to look at Burnet (and other nearby cities) and THEIR big, empty business porks as well – and play you against each other. There are big empty business porks all over the place – because most City governments are populated by morons at the top.

Also, our EDD Stacy Ybarra told us back in a January 25th radio interview that all the cities “work together” and tell each other about business prospects – and that some cities will “let other cities know, hey this business wants to expand.” She said [9:40 mark] “if we all grow, we all benefit…so it’s about…building those relationships in the central Texas region“

Huh. So you’re telling me it’s NOT all one big happy family and that if we all grow, we all benefit? Sounds like you are jealously hoarding your possible prospects and fucking over those “other cities” you claim to have relationships with. No? So who is the liar? Ybarra or JC Brown?

Oh well. While we wait weeks and weeks for this nonsense, it may be time to be a dick right back to them. Maybe it’s time to really dig into the members of the LEDC and make sure none of them have any personal bankruptcies or things of that nature in their past.

After all, if you are in charge of millions of tax dollars, I think the taxpayers have a right to know if you can’t even handle your own personal finances. Bankruptcy records are deemed public records by federal law and, thus, accessible to any member of the public who makes a request to the clerk’s office or through PACER.

Or maybe it’s time to get my lawyer involved again by requesting the emails of certain newer (and maybe less intelligent) City employees who don’t realize that everything they have been emailing on the government servers for the last four months is fair game for me and my lawyer. Perhaps a few keyword searches like “Business Park” or “prospect” or something like that would turn up some tasty nuggets!

It sure worked last time!

I am also placing a $300 bounty on information about the Business Pork prospect – prospect name, industry, incentives, etc. I know that at least three dozen people in the City must know who it is. Probably a lot more, given this is a small town and people talk. Email me at lampasshole@protonmail.com. Your anonymity is assured. Feel free to make a burner account if you wish. I’ll figure out a way to get you your $300.

It Took FIVE Generations Of Tuckers To Amass 18 Goats. Impressive.

Let’s start off the week with a Baby Seal Bashing! I just realized, it’s been two years since that City Council beatdown by Zac Morris. My, how time flies.

Local socialist Clayton Tucker SDEC-24 TX has managed to TRIPLE the size of ~~his~~ the family goat herd! Incredible. It appears ~~he is~~ they are now up to approximately 18 goats!

Impressive!

The “5th generation rancher” now has about 18 goats – and all by the age of 32 years old (plus four generations before him). Another couple of years and he might even sell a couple for some money! Hey, Rome wasn’t built in a day. He had to stand on the narrow and atrophied shoulders of the four generations of Tuckers before him who paved the way for this monumental event.

“We” tripled the size of the herd?? Who is “we”? I thought YOU were a rancher and thus head decision maker, Comrade Clayton! Did you not open your wallet and buy these creatures yourself? Or did maybe mom/dad/grandma buy them for you for some more photo ops? Or are you just an employee of this “ranch”?

It’s all so confusing. I suppose it’s hard to post ANYTHING without contradicting the many bullshit stories you’ve told in the past, eh?

What is the name of the ranch, by the way? You have never said once in the last three years you have been lying about being a rancher and farmer. Do they provide a living wage and health care and a dignified pension, as you demand of every company in the U.S.?

Just kidding. As we all know, Clayton Tucker SDEC-24 TX owns no land of his own and is NOW (after three years of Lampasshole ridicule) very careful to NEVER say “I” bought goats or “MY” herd got bigger. Always “we” and “us”…as in, his parents or maybe his dead grandfather’s trust fund. Clayton Tucker SDEC-24 TX is not in charge of anything important. He’s like the little kid you let think he is driving with a fake steering wheel while mom/dad/grandma actually runs the show.

So what are all these goats for? Meat? Dairy? Comrade Clayton Tucker SDEC-24 TX isn’t really sure about that. There may be some dairy goats in there. Or maybe not. Whatever, man. This is all a show for the socialist morons who follow him on social media.

But one thing is for sure: goats are where it is at, man. The cattle industry is SO monopolized! Except for those, like, hundreds of family cattle ranches I’ve seen all around central Texas…

Comrade Clayton cannot WAIT to breed those goats! That’s what happens when you have never had a girlfriend and Beto doesn’t return your calls anymore.

Translation: “I am too incompetent to compete in the cattle market because I lied about being a 5th-generation rancher and have no idea what I’m doing. Instead, I’ll do goats because they are smaller, cheaper and I can post pictures of the babies so all the old lady democrats in on Facebook will “ooooh” and ‘aaahhh’ over them”

Nothing like “growing the herd” after five generations and 32 years of doing nothing but Tweet about Bernie Sanders. Time to get to work, comrade!!

Here is a cretin who is supposedly a 5th generation rancher yet he is 100% wrong about a basic cattle ranch fact. To wit:

More than 97 percent of beef cattle farms and ranches are classified as family farms. When it comes to beef cattle production, most operations are smaller than you might think; according to USDA, the majority of beef cattle operations (79%) have less than 50 head of cattle.

The Lone Star State is number one in beef cattle production in the United States, and Texas is home to 248,800 farms and ranches totaling 130.2 million acres

Whoops.

Hardly sounds like a giant monopoly. I highly doubt that 248,800 family ranches are colluding on beef prices.

Wrong for the 277th time, comrade.

Electric-Car-Owning Dildos Hit With $200 Annual Fee

I absolutely love shit like this.

I love it because (1) it is common sense (2) it is so rare to see morons pay a price for their dumb choices and (3) it will drive the libtards crazy.

In most states, this would never happen. In most states, a gaggle of liberal clowns would block it while grandstanding saying “we need to make electric car buying easier and cheaper to help save the planet, which will overheat and melt your bones in nine years if we don’t act now!”

In other words, lies and bullshit.

HERE, some smart people realized that these idiot electric car owners are driving a vehicle that weights FAR more than a normal car and will wreck the roads faster than normal…and they are escaping paying any “road fees” (taxes) at the pump.

Quite frankly, I think it should be more like $800. Might help keep the California dildos out a little bit more.

There is no bigger moron around than the electric car owner. And if you own a Tesla, you are the biggest electric-car-owning moron of all.

Electric cars use up tires faster.

Electric cars are NOT saving the planet.

Tranny “Rights”

How much participation should be required of the general public in the personal fantasies of transgender activists? How much “affirmation” should we be forced to offer in submission to the trans ideology? This is perhaps the biggest issue at the core of the debate over “trans rights” – It’s not so much about rights, it’s about how much special treatment trans activists can squeeze out of the populace.

***“Hardcore” tranny lover and part-time homo***

While initially claiming that the use of preferred pronouns was more about common courtesy and that the movement would “never” try to demand legal recourse for the act of misgendering, gender ideologues are now pressing for the full force of government to strike down political opponents with consequences should they dare to point out biological facts.

Does dude look like a lady? One day it might be illegal to point these things out.

Canada’s socialist government in particular (along with provincial governments) has been quick to embrace the trans movement and is now acting to punish misgendering as a human rights violation. They are even calling for the banning of “offensive remarks” within 100 meters of any drag show. In other words, the goal of the trans movement and the political left is to have arbitrary control of individual speech and to shut down all opposition. This sentiment has been repeated by the now notorious Dylan Mulvaney, a biological man that identifies as a woman who has somehow become a prominent mascot for trans activists simply by prancing around on TikTok.

Mulvaney gained global attention after Anheuser-Busch partnered with him in a disastrous promotional stunt for their Bud Light brand that resulted in the beer company losing billions in market value and their sales plunging. It was obviously not the kind of attention that Mulvaney intended and the activist is angry that numerous publications are referring to him as a “him.”

Should society be forced to perpetuate a lie and enable a delusion in the name of saving people from hurt feelings? Most trans people say yes, arguing that misgendering leads to trans suicides and that words are the same as violence. That is to say, the activists believe their fragility earns them privileges.

This has also been the messaging of the corporate media in response to the Mulvaney debacle; they do not seem interesting in debating the scientific or biological facts at hand when it comes to the trans issue. However, it’s not the responsibility of the public or the government to protect the paper-thin egos of random citizens who are desperate to feel special.

Sometimes the truth hurts. No amount of plastic surgery or caked on make-up is going to change that. And, when it does hurt, it’s not up to society to suppress the truth for the sake of weak, mentally ill people like this.

“Show your enemy no mercy, misgender him at every opportunity.”

– Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Get Your Property Appraisals Yet?

Oh joy!

I don’t think the assessors got the message that the bubble has burst. Last March was the top in real estate. Prices are down 10% to 15% since then.

Just ask Potato Head Stephanie Fitzharris – who has had to lower the price on her Potato Patch in Austin from $999,999 down to $889,000 and it still hasn’t been sold.

Next stop $849,999, right Potato Head?

If you are unfortunate enough to live in Burnet County, then you are getting bent over even harder. Somebody has to pay for Keith McBurnett’s OUTRAGEOUS $205,000 salary – which is 20% higher than our own overpaid “Doctor” Chane Rascoe for the exact same number of students.

McBurnett is required to work 226 “duty days” per year. He also gets health insurance for “free.” So he is costing the taxpayers close to $1,100 per day for teaching zero kids. Nice work if you can get it.

There are some who bitch and moan about property taxes, even as they constantly demand the schools spend more.

Local retard Bruce Haywood was LOUDLY proclaiming that kids should NOT be going back to school during Covid in the summer of 2020 and held his own kid out of school. I predicted (quite correctly) that this was going to be a disaster and that morons like Bruce were going to cost the rest of us a fortune when remote learning failed. I wrote about it in July of 2020:

Idiots Like Bruce Haywood Are Going To Cost The Rest Of Us A Fortune

THEN, Bruce had the balls to complain about property taxes under Abbott! This was when he was cheerleading Beto for Governor last year:

But guess what? Bruce Haywood not only hasn’t filed federal taxes “for over 23 years…LOL”…

But Bruce Haywood ALSO PAYS $0.00 IN PROPERTY TAXES and has not paid anything in a VERY LONG TIME.

So to recap:

Bruce Haywood (1) demands the schools spend more all the time – school lunches, free this, free that, remote learning, etc (2) Bruce Haywood complains about high property taxes and suggests we elect a raging libtard named Beto to fix this problem (3) Turns out Bruce Haywood pays ZERO federal taxes, ZERO state income taxes (since Texas has none) and ZERO PROPERTY TAXES.

Funny though. Bruce has plenty of money to buy a brand-new pickup truck every couple of years. This is the same guy who wanted a solar farm here to “save the planet” but drives a gas-guzzling pick-up truck, even though he doesn’t need it at all.

This is the very definition of a PARASITE. Bruce is a scumbag, a piece of shit and a hypocrite. Fuck you, Bruce.

Industrial Park “Contract” Still Being Ignored By Martin’s Rod & Custom.

This is what’s known as ‘leverage.”

As in, “the City has none and Martin’s Rod has it all”

The City is so desperate to get someone in there, they’ll allow complete and utter disregard for the basic rules of the contract they signed. You know, basically the ONLY two rules they had: only boats and RVs allowed to be stored there….NOT trailers.

Makes me wonder why they pay JC Brown thousands upon thousands of tax dollars to draw these agreements up when they are routinely ignored.

I mean, seriously…what is the City going to do? Tell them the deal is off? No way. They’ll sit there and get shit on repeatedly – anything to avoid admitting they can’t get the “Industrial Park” filled and looking foolish publicly.

The same thing will happen at the end of this year when S2M2 doesn’t have their 22 houses built at Brodie Estates. Will the City claw back the $185,000 in taxpayer money that Talbert so generously handed to a private business? Hell no. They’ll pretend it didn’t even happen.

Color me cynical, but I don’t see “Phase II” happening by June 20th when Phase I was a complete flop so far.

City Attorney Still Silent On Name(s) Of Business Pork Project Prospects

Let’s be frank. Everyone on the LEDC knows the name of this secret business pork prospect. The City attorney knows the name. Likely, everyone on City council and more than a few City employees also know the name. At least three dozen people know who it is.

Yet City attorney J.C. Brown is silent and refuses to respond to my requests to name this prospect. Why? Is there a law against it? No. Is it because the prospect is such a joke, you cannot bear to let me know because I will ridicule it and poke a dozen holes in the entire idea? If that is true, you should be ashamed of yourselves for such a shitty prospect.

Is it Eco-Turd?? Please, God, let it be Eco-Turd.

Well, we will know in a day or two or I’ll be hiring my own lawyer again and also going after the City for my attorney’s fees. We have already been through this multiple times. You don’t have a leg to stand on, JC Brown. RELEASE THE NAMES!!!

If any of you naughty employees wants to leak it to me in total anonymity, feel free to drop me a line at lampasshole@protonmail.com

Tucker Versus Tucker

Such a wit!

Don’t worry, bozo. You will NEVER be compared to Tucker Carlson.

Tucker Carlson is smart, rich, educated, successful, adored by millions, reveres the Constitution, despises commies, knows the war in Ukraine is bullshit, knows the Covid vaccine is bullshit, knows J6 was bullshit, has sex with an actual female regularly, owns his own house and doesn’t live with his mom.

In other words, the complete opposite of you.

In fact, if I was presented with one of those “trolley dilemmas” where a trolley is barreling down the track and I have control of the switch and I can make the trolley go down one track with Clayton Tucker tied to the rails and the other track had a freshly-laid turd laid by Tucker Carlson, I would most definitely save the Carlson turd. No question.