The Houston Chronicle reports that the city received 44,000 complaints about water leaks last year

A 30% spike from the year before.

But reporter Dylan McGinnis just glosses over the fact that a public works official was handing out no-bid contracts to fix the water main breaks to

companies quote-unquote companies that have just been formed that are her friends and family.

Do you imagine what Thanksgiving looks like at that woman's house?

Hey, Bure!

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, what, what, he wasn't, hey, what, you got a job?

Well, you know I ain't got no job, I ain't no jobs I got a prison.

Why are you asking that?

Because we're gonna start a company in your name.

What am I, what I'm gonna do?

You gonna, uh, the water leaks?

I don't fix no water leak.

I piss my own bed every night.

But you don't have to fix the water leaks. You just get paid to fix the water leaks.

What I'm going to do to fix the water leaks.

But right, that's the point!

You don't have to fix the waterleagues.

And nobody knows?

I'm trying to hear, I can't fix the water league.

You don't have to fix the water leagues. We don't fix the water leak. You don't have to fix the water leaks. We just get paid to fix the water leak.

The Guinness reports the number of water leaks in 2023 was about 15,000 more than any other categories tally over the past decade

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