Posted on 04/18/2005 10:42:04 AM PDT by weegee
AS a host on his own radio station, Dan Patrick has crusaded against rising property taxes.
Until this month, however, his taxes hadn't been rising as fast as everyone else's. It seems that Patrick, owner of homes in Katy and Montgomery, had homestead exemptions on both.
It wasn't his fault, really. As a professional slinger of zingers, he'd hardly leave himself open to something so easily verified on the Internet.
Which is how we checked out the anonymous phone tip. Sure enough, Patrick's home on Lake Conroe has a full homestead exemption, designed to lessen the tax burden on a primary residence. And his home in Katy also had a homestead break from the Katy Independent School District.
Until we made a couple of calls.
When Patrick transferred his homestead to Lake Conroe a few years ago, Montgomery and Fort Bend counties coordinated the removal of most of his Katy exemptions.
But Katy ISD straddles two counties and its school taxes are collected by Waller County. Montgomery didn't communicate with Waller, and Patrick didn't volunteer that he still had a KISD exemption because, he said, he didn't even notice.
Waller kept the exemption until contacted by the Chronicle. The county has billed him $595.
Patrick (real name: Dannie Goeb) runs KSEV-AM, where taxes and the "liberal mainstream media" are not in vogue.
"If you come after me, I'll come after you," he cheerily imparted to an inquiring reporter.
This is what Dan gets for taking on the establishment.
He got fired from Clear Channel during the "best shot" campaign that Republicans had winning the mayor's office. Coincidence?
Replacement hosts at 950AM said that they would not discuss bill numbers or "God".
Oh, not THAT Dan Patrick.
"Houston" & "Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans" DOUBLE PING
this isn't the ESPN Dan Patrick obviously....
No, although the ESPN guy is also on the radio in Houston now (on 790AM) and Dan did do sports broadcasting a long time ago.
The Houston Chronicle doesn't do a very good job of restraining its glee over this, do they?
For those who may be wondering what prompted such a "tip" and why it was newsworthy, Dan Patrick has been spearheading efforts regarding property taxes.
Some members of the Texas GOP gave constituents the finger last week and voted contrary to the party platform and governor:
http://www.lonestartimes.com/?p=521
Please put me on the Houston Ping list. Thank you.
It would be interesting to see the last time that Dan Patrick was even considered "newsworthy" to the Comical.
Probably when Jon Matthews was arrested.
One of the many reasons I do not read the Houston Comical.
Getting adjusted or new tax bill when you own two homes and there are Hoemstead Exemptions involved is very common, I see absolutely no point for this article to be published.
Was he the guy who set up that website critising the Chronicle?
Geez Loiuse. Can we please set a lower limit on scandals?
New rule. If it involves less than $5,000, we ignore it as a news item. (Unless it involves Hillary or Chuck Schumer -- no lower limit.)
The Houston Chronicle is such a useless liberal rag that its only bonafide use is as a paper for the puppy to pee on.
He helped establish "Chronically Biased". It is now at
http://www.lonestartimes.com/
Nothing was posted about this article (yet).
He will probably tackle it on his radio show today at 4pmCST
http://www.ksevradio.com/
I don't think that Dan is involved in the website these days.
The Chronicle hates him, and now they're gloating that they stuck him with a tax bill. Very juvenile of them.
At least he didn't drop his pants in front of a minor female!
thats an interesting coincidence....
WAIT A MINUTE !!!!
Didn't Dan Patrick move recently (the last couple of weeks). He mentioned that on his show earlier this month.
Something in this story doesn't sound right. Coming from the Houston Commie, I'm not surprised.
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