THE CHRON’S HOUSTON POLITICS BLOG reports that Harris County Commissioners Court yesterday questioned County Attorney Vince Ryan’s decision to assist the City of Houston with its air pollution prosecutions (which apparently came without input from the Court). Commissioner El Franco Lee commented as follows:
“I perceive [Ryan] as being the county attorney for the departments and for the court. If he sees himself as an advocate and the watchdog role, then we’ll have some differences going forward.”
Certainly, we can understand that commissioners would not be accustomed to watchdogs looking very closely at how they run their fiefdoms, although the notion of Ryan-as-Watchdog is amusing given the difficulties he’s had watching over his own office.
