This is the first analysis of 'Twingate'  that points out the obvious. John Williams exposes the exploitation of an unfortunate incident by two Austin  promoters who are also Democrat activist. The conduct of  the teenage twins is indefensible; Chuy's  conduct is outrageous.  
 
The girls made a silly mistake; Chuy's made a calculated grab for commercial promotion, at best, and engaged in despicable dirty political activity at worst.Chuy's smug press release confirms either or both conclusions.
 
The twins will pay a price for their conduct. I hope every parent, conservative, and other decent Texans that abhors shameless exploitation of the underage girls, will ensure that Chuy's pays a price for their conduct.
 
I will not set foot in Chuy's and ask that everyone with a sense of decency join in expressing their outrage at Chuy's despicable conduct. In Texas we have the choice of an abundance of Tex-Mex in less hostile environments.
 
Jack Rains
Houston 
 
P.S. I urge you to share your thoughts on this subject with your friends and family.
 


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   HoustonChronicle.com logo    HoustonChronicle.com        Houston4u    personal start page         Pick a section Home Page Business Classifieds Columnists Comics Community Directory Entertainment Features Forums Health Help Inside Story Marketplace Metropolitan Page 1 News Search Archives Site Map Space Sports Travel Weather   Section: Local & State  Section: John Williams: Politics      Current stories in this section:  Williams: The 411 on Chuy's decision to call 911   Taiwan leader's stay in Houston goes peacefully   State candidates jockey for position   Gift for yodeling sets young singer apart from others   Dr Pepper, Tx. celebrates drink plant's 110th   Fan access is a big hit for Enron   3-alarm fire guts Atascocita church   2 hospitalized after pickup nearly runs down officers   Powerboat racer Carmody killed in accident   Legislators requesting vet school   Attorney general intervenes in lawsuit against DNA bank   State seeks to regulate Web doctors, druggists   Pair riding to 30 big-league parks for charity   Challenger ekes out win in Montgomery runoff   Tour boats operator faces charges   4th wildfire burns near Fort Davis   Mars conquers the evening skies this month   Track coach Jack Petty dies   Crime Stoppers: Five men sought in shooting   Houston's international scene   Area briefs        	    Printer-friendly format      June 4, 2001, 12:54AM  The 411 on Chuy's decision to call 911   By JOHN WILLIAMS  Copyright 2001 Houston Chronicle   The first call from Chuy's restaurant at 10:45 p.m. Tuesday went to the 911 dispatcher in Austin.   The emergency? Two underage women wanted alcoholic beverages. One had an I.D. of another person old enough to drink.   It may be the first time a restaurant has considered underage drinking worthy of an emergency call in the home of the state's biggest university, said Becky Stewart, emergency services director for the Capital Area Planning Council. CAPCO manages Austin's regional 911 system.   But the two in question had familiar names. They were Jenna and Barbara Bush, the president's 19-year-old twin daughters.   Perhaps the call is understandable. No big-dollar restaurant wants to risk its liquor license by serving alcohol to someone under 21.   Tip for newsmen questionable  The second call from Chuy's management, however, is harder to defend.  Chuy's tipped the Austin American-Statesman to the scoop about the president's partying scofflaws. Amid deadline pressure and ethical questions, the newspaper didn't print a report until Thursday.   By then, the Bush family affair, rightly or wrongly, was everybody's business. It went international. Chuy's was mentioned in newspapers worldwide.   "That can't be bad for business," mused an Austin political consultant and frequent Chuy's diner.   The success story of the restaurant chain may shed a little more light.   Chuy's was started by Michael Young and John Zapp in a city that loves its Mexican food. Young has been the main mover and shaker, helping expand the restaurant chain to Houston, Dallas, Arlington and San Antonio, and starting other profitable businesses.   Described by one friend as having a Willie Nelson grin, Young is a laid-back Austin denizen and minor Democratic player in Travis County politics.   Young has strong opinions and occasionally attends party fund-raisers, though acquaintances said he has not taken front-line positions on any major issues.   He has an amazing ability to get attention for his restaurant.   When Kenneth Starr was investigating the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair, Chuy's sold more than 1,000 T-shirts with a cartoon of Clinton shaking his finger and saying, "I did not have Tex-Mex with that woman."   Young also appeared for free in a Southwest Airlines commercial with the airline's legendary boss, Herb Kelleher. Young got the gig, which garnered free publicity for his restaurants, through adman Roy Spence, a friend and business partner who runs in Democratic circles.   Last year, Spence and Young joined others to create Glazing Saddles Ltd., which owns the Krispy Kreme doughnut shops in Austin and San Antonio.   "I like Michael because he has built a culture where his people do the right thing, they are a big family," Spence said. "His people serve the customers right, they prepare the food right, they take care of business right."   Twins' actions hard to explain  Was it right to dial 911? Many eateries might have refused to serve the Bush daughters and left it at that.   The twins' behavior is likewise hard to defend or explain. The incident came two weeks after Jenna Bush made national headlines when she pleaded no contest to an earlier underage drinking charge. Did they believe no one in Austin would recognize them, or notice the Secret Service agents nearby?   The White House has described the incidents as private family matters. If the twins' mother, first lady Laura Bush, and grandmother, former first lady Barbara Bush, decide to apply a dose of old-fashioned tough love, it couldn't be any more painful than Thursday's front-page headline in the New York Post: "Jenna and Tonic. Bush daughter in new booze incident as twin sister watched."   For Chuy's, it's a different matter. Perhaps the restaurant management, with its Democratic ties, is privately reveling in the Republican first family's public embarrassment.   The restaurant did not return calls about its decision to publicize the incident.   But Thursday afternoon, the restaurant released a statement -- or more precisely, an understatement: "We sincerely regret any inconvenience this has caused the first family."      John Williams' e-mail address is john.williams@chron.com .  Return to top          	  Click on banner for more information                             Change Your Mind! Change Your Life! section C, page 3