KHOU-11’s Jeremy Desel posted quite a whopper from Mayor Bill White before his inauguration today:
The new year is a time for new beginnings, for some, but not for Houston Mayor Bill White.
“We are not going to be one of these like, you know how politicians who’ve never managed a thing in their life and every new year there is a new spin or press conference? We are not going to run Houston that way. We are going to keep our focus,” said Mayor White.
Oh please!
Communications is an important part of politics, and Mayor White has a very effective press shop, his “aw, shucks” act notwithstanding.
Indeed, the decision to shut down Memorial for the inaugural and inconvenience motorists almost certainly was the product of the Mayor’s press operation. Sometimes the press of getting Houston moving trumps actually getting Houston moving.
INAUGURAL COVERAGE: AP, KPRC-2, KHOU-11, KUHF-88.7, and the Chronicle.
