Inside the Moon Paddle Out A2 Keep an Eye on Pack 949 A9 Cross Country Winners A16 Three Chords & the Truth A18 Issue 861 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Photo by Cathy Base Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 October 15, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around The By the Numbers Island By Dale Rankin Who Cares We had a report this week of a bottle-nosed dolphin swimming Who Wins down the Intracoastal towing a campaign sign. The Island campaign City Council season is punctuated every two years with a plethora of campaign signs Races? competing for attention at the SPID/ Whitecap and this year has been Here’s who… joined by a collecting of used cars plying the state right-of-way there. follow the money! In year’s past city inspectors, at the Editor’s note: The following are behest of state authorities and the the contributions to candidates PIPOA have cleared the right of way seeking seats on the Corpus but this year it has become the Island Christi City Council as filed in Speakers’ Corner. But not to worry, the 30th Day Before Election this too shall pass. Campaign Finance Reports with Our Season of Playing Chicken with the City Secretary. It is not a Hurricanes has taken a hiatus but complete list as some candidates the high water hereabouts ebbs and were not listed on city records, flows. Friday morning storm surge. Photo by Jason Cox of Island Escapes. others reported less than $3000 in contributions or expenditures. As of this writing we have on the first day of numbers to judge only The names are listed here in by but it looks like the turnout for ballot order. the November election is going to break records around Nueces Mayor County. Padre Island has one voting Eric Rodriguez site and it was busy the first day of $346 Contributions Early Voting. By this time next week we will have a better idea of whether $4235 Expenditures the early turnout is just regular voters $697 Maintained in Account going to the polls early or whether is it is first-time voters who are new to Carolyn Vaughn the system. $14,654 Contributions Short-term rentals $83,275 Expenditures The subject of short-term rental $38,981 Maintained in Account property on Padre Island is catching $100,000 Personal Loan fire Around The Island as complaints mount from full-time residents Lori Rasheed owner of the IGA Island Market presents a Largest Contributors check for one thousand dollars to Jan Rankin and Jeanie dealing with parking and noise $5000 Timothy Lange issues at short-term rental units in Valenzula of the Riley P Dog Park. The check will be the neighborhoods. Currently there used to sponsor a section of fencing which will feature a $2500 Ray and Stephanie banner for the IGA Island Market. If you or your business DeLos Santos Jr. are about seventy short-term rentals Friday morning at Packery Channel. A rare shot of the being offered, with most at least would like to sponsor a section of fence or make a donation please message us at [email protected] tide over the jetty. Photo by Evelyn Pless-Schuberth. $1000 Richard Groomer, Robert initially being on the VRBO site. and Donna Catalona, Bryan The progression as neighbors Gulley register complaints with the city is $750 Dan Leyendecker that the short-term rental owners First Day of In-Person retreat from the VRBO site, the one Stampede! $500 Three contributors most monitored by city authorizes, to Early Voting Priscilla Gonzalez do-it-yourself sites in an attempt to First day of Early fly under the radar. Locations with highest turnout $2500 Contributions 440 Adkins Middle School – Voting breaks As things now stand property owner 616 Veterans Memorial High 2400 block Ennis Joslin $1000 Expenditures associations can't regulate short- School records 414 Texas A&M University $1500 Maintained in Account term rentals due to a court case in The first day of Early Voting on 595 472 Del Mar College Corpus Christi Largest Contributors Boerne. Ultimately regulations will Monday saw an increase of more than be done through city zoning and as 595 Tuloso Midway High School 365 Johnny Calderon Building - 6700 voters over the last Presidential $1500 Jesse Davidson Robstown election in 2016. we have reported in previous issues 580 Corpus Christi Christian $1000 Ryan Reyna an ordinance is working its way Fellowship – 6000 block of 356 American Bank Center The number of Mail In ballots across Joe McComb through the Island Strategic Action Staples (Southside) Nueces County was also up over the 345 Ben F. McDonald Library – Committee that will ultimately go to 2016 cycle as voters cast ballots by $52,841 Contributions the council for a vote. The PIPOA is 562 Flour Bluff ISD Greenwood area long distance – 3788 in 2016 to 7023 $27,594 Expenditures currently doing a survey to determine 557 Hilltop Community Center – 306 Corpus Christi Army Depot in 2020. where to allow and not allow short- North Leopard Street $37,126 Maintained in Account term stay and that will be the basis 286 Port Aransas Community The total first-day total across of the ordinance so if you want to be 527 Padre Island Baptist Church Center Nueces County was 16,963 as $2500 Sam Susser, David Engel, Robert Parker, heard from now is the time. 471 Nueces County Courthouse compared to 10,231 in 2016. Some Island addresses are turning Stampede cont. on A4 $2000 David Loeb up on a regular basis in police $1500 Linebarger Googan Blair reports as weekly calls are made to & Sampson rental properties. Deed restrictions in Island subdivisions don’t address A little Island history $1000 Claude Jennings, Henry short-term stay as they were written Nuss, Michael Yankee, Gloria so long ago that it was not an issue. Hicks, Sam Beecroft, Al Jones, Changing those would require a 51% When South Texas Was in the Jennifer Skrobarczyk, Philip vote in each of the 36 subdivisions on Skrobarczyk, Darryl Haas, the island and would take years to get National Spotlight Jim Barnette, Capt. And Mrs. done. The city zoning only requires T.C. Wimberly Dr. Michael five votes on the council and can be For all the wrong reasons Skrobarczyk , Mike Uppincott done quickly once we tell the city Ray Jones, Valero Political what we want. Action Committee Editor’s note: With elections front By Dale Rankin This is an issue that will have a $500 30 contributors and center this week, and in light To understand what major impact on Island life for years of a response from a reader (see Paulette Guajardo to come and city leaders are looking happened in the 1948 Letters to the Editor in his issue) race between Lyndon $120,395 Contributions to Island residents for direction. If we take a look a back an infamous you received a questionnaire from Johnson and Coke $51,623 Expenditures election that put South Texas in the Stevenson you have to the PIPOA make sure you fill it out national spotlight in 1948. $54,050 Outstanding Loans and return it. Again, if you want to be go back to 1941 when heard from now is the time. In question was the outcome of Johnson lost his race for $83,147 Maintained in Account the 1948 U.S. Senate race between the senate after leading From the Maybe Department then Congressman Lyndon B. by 5000 votes when Largest Contributors We also continue to hear persistent Johnson and former Governor Coke “late” votes came in $10,000 Manual Green (Dallas) Stevenson. The race was decided from East Texas which tips that the waterpark formerly $5000 Robert Hilliard, Timothy by 87 votes out of 988,295 cast lost cost LBJ the race known as Waves and the surrounding Lange, Joel Tamez, CCFA with 200 of them coming in a full by 1311 votes. In his land may turn into housing. No one Governor Coke Stevenson. Cope Fund is saying anything on the record but six days after the election from Jim autobiography “In valuable lesson from the 1941 loss. $2500 Chris Clark, Scott we will keep trying. This is a case of Wells County earning Johnson the History’s Shadow” When longtime Senator Morris Corliss, Wilson Almonte hurry up and wait. name of Landslide Lyndon (which John Connelly who was Johnson’s he hated). Here’s the story… campaign manager in both the 1941 Shepard died in office a cattle (Victoria), Jay Baradaran, That’s all for now. Say hello if you and 1948 races said he learned a see us Around The Island. History cont. on A4 Numbers cont. on A4 October 15, 2020 Island Moon A 2 Island Beauty Paddle Out for Karl West Brown Pelican by Lu Ann Kingsbury. Photo by Evelyn Pless-Schuberth. Photo by GScott Imaging Photo by Evelyn Pless-Schuberth. Now Featuring... Live Music & Karaoke A Paddle Out was held on Saturday, October 10th for Karl West who passed Friday and away recently. Friends and family gathered for the event to celebrate Karl’s Saturday life. The paddle-out is a spiritual symbol of surf culture. 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