From KSAT-12:
SAN ANTONIO -- A temporary restraining order was filed Tuesday against Boobie Rock, halting the gentleman's club from opening as scheduled on the city's Northwest Side.
Property owners of EOS Acquisitions, a neighboring business to the proposed site for Boobie Rock, filed the restrictive order in light of a covenant for the property that states it cannot be used for adult entertainment.
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District 8 Councilwoman Diane Cibrian, who began crusading against the nearly nude bar, said the deed restriction is key to halting Boobie Rock since city zoning still allows the business to operate in the area.
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Cibrian said more strip clubs in the area could increase crime and added San Antonio police have been called to Sugar's strip club 135 times this year. Cibrian pointed out that the owners of Sugar's are trying to open Boobie Rock.
I wonder how many times police have been called out to the apartment complex nearby that she is trying to save from the really bad influence of the strip club?
Oh, and Cibrian herself is really starting to sound, well, strange. Check out Joe Pagliarulo to find out how she sounded when he tried to interview her about this issue on his show. He recaps:
Finally admitting what I was asking her on Friday, San Antonio city councilwoman Diane Cibrian has now gotten a restraining order against the owners of what would be the "Boobie Rock" strip club. Cibrian told me on my show Friday that the reason she was against the club couldn't be put "in a box." She continued to avoid my questions as to whether she had a problem with the name or the type of business. Today, she has admitted that's exactly what the problem is for her. A press release from the city councilwoman's office says:
"A judge has ordered that the defendants, Boobie Rock Partners, shall cease all improvements, changes, and/or alterations on the exterior of the premises. In addition, an amendment to the original covenants was found that restricts the use of this property to an establishment with any prurient context, meaning sexual in nature."
So, the answer to my question -- 'are you against it because of the name or the type of business?' -- is a resounding 'YES!' Too bad it took four full days to get that answer. [emphasis in original]
Also read his previous entry dated Saturday, October 13. Cibrian annoyed Joe Pags so much in an interview with her that he has sworn to oppose her when she runs for re-election:
In the course of the discussion the councilwoman said something to the effect of "well joe, if you support these kinds of businesses and if you want to support strip clubs coming into neighborhoods, that's up to you." That really set me off. What a rude, disgusting political trick to try to discredit me and my thoughts -- on my very radio show. That's when I told her what I thought of this move.
I let her know how rude I thought she was. I asked her how she dared to say such disgusting things especially after knowing what I said earlier about how I don't support these kinds of establishments but, I do support capitalism and their right to exist. I went on to tell her that if she decides to run for re-election, I'd be a loud voice opposing her.
I've received a ton of phone calls and many emails since -- the vast majority agreeing that the councilwoman's tactics were -- well -- tacky and rude. Even those dead set against this business coming to that part of the I-10 frontage were taken aback by the councilwoman's lack of decorum in our discussion.
Just par for the course for San Antonio politics -- enough strangeness to go around.
5 comments:
I heard that last night and lmao. That building has already been so many venues...if dodgeball can't make it sucessful why do they think titties across the street from the prestigous cadillac dealership will make it?!
Someone has balls trying to push this in THAT neighborhood.
Dodgeball? I think I'd be more embarrassed by a dodgeball facility in my neighborhood than by a strip club.
Meanwhile, this council lady is showing up at publicly available city council meetings and she in fact has boobies, whether she likes it or not.
Why is it that those that seem to protest the most vehemently almost always tend to be middle aged, overweight and unattractive women, Diane?
Steve asks why it is always unattractive, middle aged women that speak up against XXX businesses. Well, I guess it's because the young woman are too busy chasing after all those kids you keep burdening them with.
And the guys are afraid that if they say anything, they'll be accused of being gay.
If you have been to one of these clubs, you'll know that they feed a cripling addiction that is demeaning to both women and the slimy, sick, soft-brained men that patronize them.
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