Mayor White's First Days
Like Greg Wythe, I'm pleased that as of Mayor White's first day, that Saddamesque portrait of FORMER Mayor Pothole out at Bush Intercontinental has become a thing of the past:
White's office bore no signs of his predecessor, Lee Brown, whose pictures at Bush Intercontinental Airport also had been taken down.Good riddance.
It also seems that Mayor White will not be making extensive use of former Mayor Pothole's personal chef, apparently reassigning him to general food services, if an earlier story is accurate. The new mayor gets in another dig at the Saddamesque portrait of Pothole at the airport as well:
Q: The mayor has a chef on staff for the mayor's private dining room. Is there anything he needs to know?I didn't vote for the guy, but it doesn't really matter; Bill White's going to be an immeasurable improvement over that stupid buffoon who held the office the last six years.A: (chuckles) I don't eat enough to justify a chef. I've learned that the person in that position, there may be useful work for him in the City Hall food services or kitchen. And I'll keep an account at City Hall that I'll pay for, personally, for the food I eat.
And, I might say, on a different note -- you didn't ask this, but -- I have asked Rick Lowe, who is a fantastic community-based sort of art entrepreneur, to gather the thoughts and views of citizens about how we depict Houston as a great city of opportunity at the airport sign.
Q: Not just Bill White's picture?
A: It won't be my picture. It will be something that helps us to begin this process of communicating to the world what Houston is -- that will continue through the Super Bowl and beyond -- which is the great city of opportunity in the United States.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/06/04 19:17 | Houston | Technorati
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I was actually just looking through my blog's referrer listing, and I noticed some hits from a comment that I had posted at the 'Greg's Opinion' blog. I hadn't been back to the site for awhile, though, and now, I see that that blog is still going strong. (The design has possibly changed, though, since I was last there.) I also clicked here because your index page was listed as having been a referre to my blog (on October 9th, 2003). Anyway, this site, and Reductio Ad Absurdum, are good weblogs... Keep up the good work.
Posted by Aakash @ 20:50 on 01/06/04
Thanks Aakash! I owe you an apology. You've had Reductio linked forever over at your fine blog and have been a good commenter, and I've just been horrible about doing blogroll maintenance on that site. I do my blogrolls by hand (no blogrolling.com), but that's no good excuse. It's added now! Sorry it's taken so long.
Posted by Kevin @ 21:06 on 01/06/04
From one non-voter (due to West. U. status) to another: good post!
That last sentence of yours is right on! I doubt even Owen could argue with it.
Posted by Adrianne Truett @ 08:55 on 01/07/04
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