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Story seems to have changed on this one. Not about Beryl after all! A guy well known for not staying within party lines now seems preoccupied with party procedures. Who woulda guessed it?! EXCLUSIVE: Mayor Whitmire explains why he has not yet endorsed Kamala Harris for president (click2houston.com)

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Oh Augie, if only it were TRUE! The GOP’s lengthy impeachment and censure lists - The Washington Post Nor do they tell the full story of such punitive threats, including censure, which the GOP has used extensively outside the halls of Congress — mostly against fellow Republicans who did not show loyalty to the party in general or Trump in particular. Since 2021, those being censured by state parties or the Republican National Committee have included five current or former GOP senators, a sitting GOP governor, five GOP House members and a smattering of state legislators. 1. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.): Trump criticisms (state party) 2. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.): gun rights, LGBT rights, immigration (state party) 3. Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.): vote to convict Trump at impeachment (state party) 4. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.): vote to convict Trump at impeachment (state party) 5. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska): vote to convict Trump at impeachment, confirmation vote, abortion rights support (state party) 6. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R): pandemic emergency orders (state party) 7. Rep. Liz Cheney (R- Wyo.): Trump criticisms, vote to impeach (RNC, state party) 8. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.): Trump criticisms, vote to impeach (RNC) 9. Gonzales (R-Tex.): guns, same-sex marriage (state party) 10. Gonzalez (R-Ohio): vote to impeach Trump (state party) 11. Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.): vote to impeach Trump (state party) 12. Arizona state House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R): Jan. 6 committee testimony (state party) 13-34. Ohio state House members: voting with Democrats to elect an alternative GOP speaker (state party) Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers: speaking at a white-nationalist conference, violent language and political threats (state party) 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 There's only one candidate (and one party) in this election who is obsessed with dictators and talking about sending people to camps en masse . . . it's not a stretch to say Trump would be waxing poetic about Stalin's "strength" if they were contemporaries. One year of Trump’s praise for authoritarians - POLITICO Aw SHUCKS . . . what a shame he's no longer running! Considering everything we've heard in the past 4 years from the R side about how incompetent he was, I guess we thought the news would make you happy! But Rs have proven to be a fickle bunch and anything but consistent in their thinking time and time again . . . OH WELL!

After hundreds of Democratic mayors endorsed Kamala Harris, John Whitmire is conspicuously (but not surprisingly) absent from the list because he's "focused on storm recovery." Yeah, I totally get it, very difficult to have your staff member tweet out for you, "Thanks President Biden for your service and glad to support you in 2024 Kamala Harris." Definitely a heavy lift! Mayor John Whitmire yet to endorse VP Kamala Harris (lmtonline.com) (While we're on the topic, seems like we need a new thread.)

Total apologies there, augie, if I came across as "Zoltan the Great Mind Reader" by stating a matter of fact.

You honestly think the candidates are that close in "weasel-ness" as demonstrated by their observable behavior that the choice is a metaphorical coin flip? False. Both of Ford's attempted assassinations occurred within weeks of each other in September 1975 after he announced his candidacy in July 1975. He lost in 1976.

Just hilarious in light of the Mayor's recent IG comment on Hidalgo's fiance. It's difficult to take such comments seriously, but perhaps they were intended in jest . . . in which case . . . IJBOL!

Well maybe the most logical answer is that there simply are no renderings to share?

I agree with you 100% on all of the above. But, as I've described before, focusing his campaign on the firefighters was a very weird one. On essentially week one of becoming the Mayor, he announced the City was bankrupt . . . because of the unilateral decision he made to bankrupt (his word, not mine) the City. Does that not strike you as just absolutely beyond bizarre? Political parties aside? (Actually, the political party dynamics in this regard make it way more interesting, but I digress.) If we agree on your second paragraph there (which we do), then OK, who would donate to his campaign for the purpose of bankrupting the City of Houston? What is there to "make right" by that? And why do they seem salivating to do the same to the County? I'm sure they don't see it that way--rather, they see it as a means to an end. I fear HISD was Step 1. METRO seems to be Step 2? So I am just . . . shall we say . . . "curious" . . . as to what the end is.

Well sounds like a real first-class loser if that's his approach to managing the fourth largest city in the US. Is it too much to ask the Mayor of Houston to be able to state a vision? I mean I think you're right, he wants to blame the last guy without doing crap, but man, what an absolute waste. Wouldn't you agree? I think he's smarter than that. Which means his platform has been handed to him. WHAT corruption, exactly? If there's "a lot at stake for the City," seems to me you can explain what you're talking about versus speaking in platitudes. Please share all of the corruption. And in good faith. The people on this forum care about the City of Houston, so please, please tell us about all of this corruption.

Well this post stood the test of time for, well, six weeks. And that's being generous. Turns out that the hyperbole was informed speculation, as most on this thread held. "Writing on the wall," if you will and in big, bold letters. Turns out it's not that difficult to speculate that removing voter-approved plans because they are "advocacy" isn't innocent nor fair-minded--and it wasn't a leap at all to "connect those dots." (n.b. Always helpful for people on here to know those whose judgment is regularly clouded by political blindness.) Still, the most interesting to me in all of this is, along with the firefighter settlement, all of these transportation-related issues seem to be top priority for the new administration. At least he ran openly on the firefighter settlement, so no obfuscation there. This apparent vendetta against anything other than cars, though, leaves me scratching my head. Why? If it was such an important philosophical issue to him, why not make it a campaign issue? Who, exactly, is he doing all of this for?

Agree but I don't see why you would include Kim Ogg on this list--she has vocally not been aligned with Hidalgo or Turner, as recent news has indicated, nor the "agenda" of the "progressive judges." Assuming the use of "our" means you're a member of the LGBT community, you really took no offense to Whitmire's statement about a library located in the Montrose Collective being located near bars and "adult entertainment" establishments? Even if you didn't take personal offense, surely you can understand how others would. (If "our" is instead used to mean Houstonian, or Houston-area resident, I'd say the statement is a bit empty.) (Another "10 seconds of Googling," BTW, would provide a reminder that the Houston LGBTQ+ Political Caucus endorsed Sheila Jackson lee over Whitmire, so they would take issue with your statement, or at least the use of the word "exactly." Except the Log Cabin-ers, I suppose, but they seem to have a thing for being punished.) And rightfully so. Maybe the "adult entertainment establishments" was another Alex Mealer-provided talking point 🤣

Glad the developers are speaking up. Love that the "loud voices" the article referred to the Mayor listening to cited only one name . . . Alex Mealer. It sure does seem to be the case. What strange bedfellows, the former chairman of State GOP's 2024 Victory Fund and the "Democratic" Houston mayor.

Houston will be a bigger city than Chicago when . . .? We gain 10K, they lose 10K, I can't do the math, but let's settle on 2130. Assuming we're not the next Detroit or underwater by then. At least we were so damned close! Houston reached NYC's 2020 population in 2023. . . . COVID hit HARD . . . so close . . . . yet SO FAR 🫠 (Cheers to you @Houston19514)

Reduce the operating subsidy from owner jurisdictions would be my guess. (And that’s not an endorsement, but we should call a spade a spade.)

$14 million towards and $800 million project for design. But don't let details get in the way! Besides, as our new Mayor has shown us, even when funds are committed for transportation projects . . . it doesn't mean anything!