It's that time.

Time, time, time.

Lock and load.

The Michael Verishow is on the air.

Let's go back to you paying massive hotel taxes and your guests paying massive hotel occupancy taxes.

And Sylvester Turner's administration while he's traveling around Africa.

City of Houston is in Detroit, decline.

And his pet plaque says, well, he's promoting us and strengthening our global ties around the world and cultural exchange.

Well, the Chronicle doesn't want to point out too much.

So Dylan McGinnis with the Chronicle points out that Mayor Porker in her last two years of office went to South Africa, Norway, the Netherlands, Korea, Japan, Columbia, Panama, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, Mexico City.

But when they asked her about it, she said the trips were really boring.

Yeah, they were really boring.

Hey, you seem to be going on these international vacations at the taxpayers' expense.

Is that what you ran for?

Does that have anything to do with being mayor?

Oh, it wasn't fun.

Well, it was really boring.

So you just kind of suffered through, yeah, it's really boring.

I mean, I didn't really want to go to all these places and be treated like I was a king while I was there.

It was really boring.

Meanwhile, back stateside, the city of Houston can't seem to figure out what they've been able to do for 60 years.

They can't figure out how to bill people for their water that is commensurate with the amount they use.

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