Here’s a tale of two investigations.
On Thursday, Mayor White vowed to take charge of investigating incidents of HFD firemen (or perhaps fireman) behaving badly (very badly):
Houston’s mayor said on Thursday that he will personally oversee an investigation into racial, sexual and threatening graffiti left at female living quarters in a Houston fire station, and will seek outside help in improving the department, KPRC Local 2 reported.
Following Texas Watchdog‘s latest riveting story on the Houston Airport System, detailing a shadowy web of offshore companies (staffed partly by City of Houston employees) that refuse to provide any accounting of activities to Texas Watchdog, Houston taxpayers, or even elected officials (including the City Controller and one Councilmember), Mayor White’s response was… to allow Anthony Hall, who was the White Administration’s point man in dealing with Vacar and his activities (and a Lee Brown Administration insider back in the day), to continue his audit of Vacar’s activities.
The public deserves better than that. Even if Mayor White is disinclined, the City Controller not to mention City Council should be demanding answers from the Houston Airport System and all of the shadowy spinoffs Vacar created, in part with the resources and backing of the City of Houston and the Houston Airport System.
