Houston Mayor John Whitmire’s (Fake) Secret Diary

For more Bum Steers coverage, read about commercial airlines, Elon Musk, Ken Paxton, and our Bum Steer of the Year, Jerry Jones. For some of this year’s more uplifting moments, check out the Best Things in Texas. When Democratic state Senator John Whitmire was elected Houston’s sixty-third mayor, in December 2023, the 75-year-old attorney had been serving for half a century in the Texas Legislature, where he worked five months every other year while enjoying Austin’s nightlife. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he had trouble adjusting to a job with actual responsibilities. At first Whitmire tried blaming Houston’s problems on his predecessor, Sylvester Turner. But his impulsive, half-baked solutions to the city’s ills seemed only to make things worse. Whether he was tearing out concrete medians that were intended…

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