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The Michael Berry Show

Is Sylvester Turner Using Public Funds To Publish This Book?

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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The Michael Berry show somebody wrote this little inspirational

0:05.1

We'll call it a book about Sylvester Turner and the little inspirational book tells about how he was born in Acres Homes. He was Poe. But look at

0:20.2

at him now. Look at Sylvester Shire. He going to take his little boat where the big boats go.

0:26.8

He went to UH and then he went to Harvard and Sheila Jackson he went to Yale. Do you start to see patterns? This was the first

0:37.0

era of people that would not have qualified for Ivy League schools all of a sudden entering Ivy League schools.

0:46.1

They weren't the smartest.

0:48.1

They were the pushiest.

0:49.6

And look where they ended up.

0:50.8

Sheila Jackson Lee, Sylvester Turner.

0:54.4

And they posted this vanity, he's so great on the city website then Houston first was paying

1:06.3

124,000 dollars to buy the book the book is just the printout of the website.

1:14.0

If you recall yesterday, the city of Houston for hours did not get back to us on our requests regarding who exactly will be paying for this book that was

1:24.5

specifically produced for Mayor Turner's final state of the city speech.

1:28.7

Keep in mind Houston First is fueled by public dollars. Officials inside Houston First is fueled by public dollars.

1:32.8

Officials inside Houston First telling us they were completely unaware of the request

1:38.1

to pay for the mayor's book until KPRC to investigates came asking questions.

1:43.2

One official also adding,

1:45.1

we're not in the book printing business.

1:47.3

We went to the mayor's office who told us

1:49.9

Houston first had the private funds to do so through dollars raised specifically for the

1:55.9

mayor's state of the city luncheon.

1:58.0

The event used donations to cover the costs, but suddenly after the books were printed there are invoices for

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