More Greed Plus an Insult

The City of Farmers Branch is being sued by Guillermo Ramos over the recently enacted city ordinances that are intended to discourage illegal aliens from residing within the city limits. The article in the Star-Telegram is the latest in the on-going saga of life in the small town north of Dallas. I've commented on this controversy in a previous post.

Ramos, a resident of Farmers Branch, claims in his suit that "...the ordinances were approved after discussions in closed-door meetings, a violation of the Texas Open Meetings Act." If that is true, and I don't know that it is, the ordinances should be withheld until all legal requirements can be met.

The real purpose of the suit, however, appears to be that the ordinances will be bad for Ramos' real estate business.

He reported that his real estate business "like other businesses in Farmers Branch will suffer from the negative impacts likely to result from the ordinances."

In the print edition of the newspaper, but not the online edition, the suit is reported to challenge "...a second "divisive" ordinance that targets property maintenance" by banning "...empty flowerpots and dirty garage doors" that, according to the article, "...is unmistakably and improperly directed toward a definable ethnic group - Hispanics - in Farmers Branch."

I know what you're thinking.....what do "empty flowerpots and dirty garage doors" have to do with Hispanics? Ramos apparently thinks this is a valid method of determining whether someone is Hispanic or not.

If I were "Hispanic," whatever that really means, I would sue Ramos for defamation of character and demand punitive damages for hurting my feelings.

Empty flower pots?..........Sheesh.....