He could start cutting out DEI initiatives. That might help
I’m not one of the elite who knows better than everyone else how to run the world but... maybe you could try getting back to doing your job rather than funding ideological projects and enriching your friends. Just a thought.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money. - Margaret Thatcher
This is interesting considering the Houston metro area led the US in 2023 with over 60M housing starts/permits. Putting Dallas/Ft Worth into second place as far as sheer volume of houses being built.
Yeah, better to raise taxes, cut firefighters and police salaries - and keep DEI bean counters and diversity officers making $200,000/year.
I expect an exodus out of Houston.
Typical Democrat success story. Run something into the ground then look around for someone to pay for their mistake.
Stop spending money on welfare and you’ll have more than you need to run government.
They won’t cut a bloated bureaucracy.
Councils in the UK work the same way.
With similar results.
So going exactly as planned in other words?
Mike the Scavenger is making big bucks with recyclables.
Mebbe get the Goobermint staffers to start dumpster diving?
No Money for Emergency Services , so where does the money go ?
I warn everyone at every opportunity to stay away from Houston at all costs!
Dont visit, don’t drive through, and certainly NEVER EVER accept a job there.
I used to think I hated Texas when I was younger, but then after leaving Houston, I realized no.. I only hated Houston and I had extrapolated the hate out to the entire state. And it has gotten 10 times worse since that time.
Leftists vote against having emergency services and spend the money on leftists.
Public school students cheer.
The cost of EMERGENCIES skyrockets.
Leftists declare that they have no money.
Public school students riot.
The question is, How many leftists (and their useful student bodies) does it take to screw up a light bulb?
The answer is, The number who vote against having emergency services and spend the money on leftists.
Sylvester Turner’s parting gift.
He is driving away saying “See ya suckers”.
He’s Mayor of Houston Texas.
Has he considered taking out a student loan?
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End to special last meals
Whitmire was angered by convicted murderer Lawrence Russell Brewer’s refusal to eat the expensive last meal he ordered prior to his September 21, 2011, execution. Whitmire said that this was Brewer’s attempt to “make a mockery out of the process.” The senator contacted the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and asked the agency to end the practice of last meal requests or he would get the State Legislature to pass a bill doing so. The agency replied that last meal requests were accommodated “within reason” from food available in the prison kitchen, but it agreed to end the practice immediately at Whitmire’s insistence.[14]
A/C in prisons
In 2021, Whitmire stirred controversy by responding to questions about the lack of air conditioning in prisons by saying: “You know, we can talk about this all day, it’s not gonna change. The prisons are hot. They’re uncomfortable. And the real solution is, don’t commit a crime and you stay at home and be cool. We’re not gonna air condition them. One, we don’t want to. Number two, we couldn’t afford it if we wanted to.” Whitmire’s quote was featured the following month on a segment on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver criticizing Texas for not air conditioning its prisons, exacerbating medical conditions and even causing the deaths of some prisoners.[15] Heat has killed numerous prisoners and cost Texas taxpayers millions of dollars in wrongful death suits brought by victims’ families.[16]
Added problem....he’d normally go to some bank and ask for a couple billion. Presently, the banks who might have cash and willing nature....want some serious rate of interest. So just talking about borrowing is going hurt reality.
Surprised that he isn’t trying to make it a Texas state issue.
first you pay firefighters, cops and pick up the trash Everything else comes after,