That hypocrite likes to talk big
This is the same Ken Rigsbee who said, ''God help Austin in January 1999. It's going to be nasty. We have not seen Austin-bashing yet.'' Austin American-Statesman (AAS), December 19, 1997. He also complained about the city withholding information from him. ''Ken Rigsbee chairs the annexation committee of the Circle C Homeowners Association and was a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed last week to delay a public hearing on the city's annexation of the 4,661-acre area. Using information from a lawsuit fought last spring by the city to regain its right to annex Circle C, the association has tried to analyze the financial implications of annexation. 'We can't do anything without the underlying premises,' Rigsbee said. 'All of our calculations show an immediate loss. Then it gets worse for 20 years. ... If they're in litigation, all this information is going to become public anyway. I've about concluded that there's just a whole lot of things they don't want to share. And I think that's just too bad.''' AAS, November 13, 1997. By the way, the annexation Rigsbee fought so hard against was part of the original plan for Circle C. What's Rigsbee got against being in the city of Austin? And how's this for hypocrisy? ''Ken Rigsbee, president of the Circle C neighborhood's political action committee, dropped off a letter protesting the clerk's decision [not to verify signatures on petitions to allow city council incumbents to avoid term-limits]. Rigsbee said numerous Austinites want proof that the incumbents actually got around the term-limit regulations that voters approved in 1994. 'I think this is a flagrant injustice,' Rigsbee said.'' AAS, March 21, 2002.
And get a load of this from the August 12, 1998 AAS. ''Speculation has it that the Circle C subdivision, which furiously fought annexation, will offer a candidate to run against someone, most likely Slusher. But Ken Rigsbee, a lobbyist who heads the area's political action committee, said it likely won't happen. 'I don't think I would subject anyone who lives out there to the rigors of a campaign, particularly against Slusher,' Rigsbee said. 'But we will certainly be involved.''' Who does he think he is to decide whether someone from Circle C can run for elective office? For more Rigsbee tough talk see the AAS, March 23, 2000. ''In an e-mail message to all council members, Ken Rigsbee, chairman of the association's steering committee, wrote that if [city council member] Griffith intended to kill the agreement, the consequences would be 'severe.' Several homeowners have already suggested that association officers make appointments to meet with Perry, Texas House Speaker Pete Laney and other state officials, Rigsbee wrote. 'We have a chance -- and I think our only chance -- to finally work together to reach a meaningful accord that will preserve and protect not only our environment, but also the quality and viability of our community at Circle C,' Rigsbee wrote. 'I have devoted too much time and energy to this effort to sit idly by and see it squandered away.'?”
Now, he says he's opposed to Wal-Mart, but here are his true feelings. '''What we need are highways; we don't need any more parks,' Rigsbee said. 'We have more parks than we can look after.' AAS, June 15, 2000. And from the AAS, February 14, 2002, ''Ken Rigsbee, the association's secretary-treasurer, said he cannot remember the association opposing a development in the area.'' And this from the June 28, 2002 AAS. '''It's the typical circus; the environmental extremists have gotten a bunch of people to show up,' Rigsbee said, appraising the crowd [at a city council meeting].''
This is the same Ken Rigsbee who said, ''God help Austin in January 1999. It's going to be nasty. We have not seen Austin-bashing yet.'' Austin American-Statesman (AAS), December 19, 1997. He also complained about the city withholding information from him. ''Ken Rigsbee chairs the annexation committee of the Circle C Homeowners Association and was a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed last week to delay a public hearing on the city's annexation of the 4,661-acre area. Using information from a lawsuit fought last spring by the city to regain its right to annex Circle C, the association has tried to analyze the financial implications of annexation. 'We can't do anything without the underlying premises,' Rigsbee said. 'All of our calculations show an immediate loss. Then it gets worse for 20 years. ... If they're in litigation, all this information is going to become public anyway. I've about concluded that there's just a whole lot of things they don't want to share. And I think that's just too bad.''' AAS, November 13, 1997. By the way, the annexation Rigsbee fought so hard against was part of the original plan for Circle C. What's Rigsbee got against being in the city of Austin? And how's this for hypocrisy? ''Ken Rigsbee, president of the Circle C neighborhood's political action committee, dropped off a letter protesting the clerk's decision [not to verify signatures on petitions to allow city council incumbents to avoid term-limits]. Rigsbee said numerous Austinites want proof that the incumbents actually got around the term-limit regulations that voters approved in 1994. 'I think this is a flagrant injustice,' Rigsbee said.'' AAS, March 21, 2002.
And get a load of this from the August 12, 1998 AAS. ''Speculation has it that the Circle C subdivision, which furiously fought annexation, will offer a candidate to run against someone, most likely Slusher. But Ken Rigsbee, a lobbyist who heads the area's political action committee, said it likely won't happen. 'I don't think I would subject anyone who lives out there to the rigors of a campaign, particularly against Slusher,' Rigsbee said. 'But we will certainly be involved.''' Who does he think he is to decide whether someone from Circle C can run for elective office? For more Rigsbee tough talk see the AAS, March 23, 2000. ''In an e-mail message to all council members, Ken Rigsbee, chairman of the association's steering committee, wrote that if [city council member] Griffith intended to kill the agreement, the consequences would be 'severe.' Several homeowners have already suggested that association officers make appointments to meet with Perry, Texas House Speaker Pete Laney and other state officials, Rigsbee wrote. 'We have a chance -- and I think our only chance -- to finally work together to reach a meaningful accord that will preserve and protect not only our environment, but also the quality and viability of our community at Circle C,' Rigsbee wrote. 'I have devoted too much time and energy to this effort to sit idly by and see it squandered away.'?”
Now, he says he's opposed to Wal-Mart, but here are his true feelings. '''What we need are highways; we don't need any more parks,' Rigsbee said. 'We have more parks than we can look after.' AAS, June 15, 2000. And from the AAS, February 14, 2002, ''Ken Rigsbee, the association's secretary-treasurer, said he cannot remember the association opposing a development in the area.'' And this from the June 28, 2002 AAS. '''It's the typical circus; the environmental extremists have gotten a bunch of people to show up,' Rigsbee said, appraising the crowd [at a city council meeting].''
