He did not just say that!?!?

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NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas – A San Antonio topless club is planning a tubing river excursion that features strippers. Trey Maddox, a manager at Palace Men’s Club, said Sunday’s event, during which men can pay $25 to join the strippers, isn’t meant to fly in the face of the city’s new rules.

“We’re not hookers, dope dealers or Mafia thugs,” he said, noting that the strippers will be appropriately dressed. “We’re just coming to have a good time.”

City Councilman Ken Valentine isn’t so sure.

“I’m really disappointed that this is going to occur on Sunday when people should be in church,” he said. “I hope they behave themselves and keep their clothes on, but I’m not sure they will because strippers are trained to take off their clothes.”

The New Braunfels City Council has been cracking down on rowdy behavior on the Comal and Guadalupe rivers in recent months, banning volume drinking devices better known as beer bongs, increasing the maximum fine for noise ordinance violations, and prohibiting sound amplification on the river between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.

A new ordinance banning containers with a liquid volume of 5 ounces or less — an attempt to ban Jell-O shots and the associated litter — will take effect after the next city council meeting.

Mayor Bruce Boyer said he thought it was unfortunate that the San Antonio club is taking advantage of the situation “to get free publicity.”

“And all we’re trying to do is make it safe and pleasant for anybody 8 to 80 to come and have a safe and enjoyable river experience,” he said.

“I’m really disappointed that this is going to occur on Sunday when people should be in church,” he said. “I hope they behave themselves and keep their clothes on, but I’m not sure they will because strippers are trained to take off their clothes.”

Someone please tell me that is a misquote. Certainly the city councilman is not suggesting that 1) strippers are incapable of keeping their clothes on in public, or 2) that every one in New Braunfels should be in church on Sunday. Surely he has heard of Seventh Day Adventists, Judaism, atheism?

More on the river float trip here.