Mayor Pothole's America: The Final Months

The Comical has just now noticed the paradise that is Lee Brown's America:

Two items in the news recently make us wonder whether anybody -- the mayor, council members or department heads -- is minding the city. It doesn't look like it.

Take the public library system, which is now having to trim back on operating hours because of budget woes.

It turns out that the system is owed nearly $10 million in fines and fees; that hundreds of thousands of Houstonians have failed over the years to return books, videos and various equipment. How could that have been allowed to happen to such an extent?

The library situation has gotten so bad that City Council is considering hiring a collection agency to go after the scofflaws.

This situation took years to develop. Was anybody minding the store?

What a great question! Some of us have been warning of what would happen in a Lee Brown administration since.... oh, wait, it's coming back to me... yeah, since the independent research Alan Stone and I did when Mayor Pothole (then former Chief and then Drug Czar Dunderhead) first ran for mayor against Rob Mosbacher.

Meanwhile, the Comical has endorsed the man time and time again -- twice in the last election for mayor (the regular election and the runoff), which was entirely a referendum on the man's mismanagement of this city.

It's nice that the Comical has finally noticed what a disastrous job the mayor has done. It would have been nice had the dreadful little newspaper been paying attention earlier.

[Posted at 20:46 CST on 06/02/03] [Link]