There Was A Reason Why Sylvester Turner Was Able To Claim That Crime Was Down
The Michael Berry Show
KTRH
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🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Michael Berry show. |
| 0:02.0 | So the police chief, the fire chief, |
| 0:05.0 | airport director, public works director, |
| 0:09.0 | all these people work directly for the mayor. |
| 0:14.2 | At his pleasure is a legal term. |
| 0:18.3 | You have the opportunity to hire and fire every person in that position. |
| 0:24.0 | Mario Diaz, who happens to be the name of the investigative reporter at Channel 2, who exposed a lot of fraud at the airport under Sylvester Turner happens to have the same name as the |
| 0:37.6 | airport director under Sylvester Turner. The airport director resigned before he could be fired. |
| 0:47.0 | But I would love for Whitmire to institute an investigation of the crimes that occurred at the airport |
| 0:57.0 | because that fund is so big there's more opportunity for scandal at the airport than in all the other departments |
| 1:10.1 | combined because there's almost no oversight. |
| 1:14.3 | They try to convince city council if you do try to dig in and most people don't. |
| 1:18.1 | Oh, this is federal because airport's federal. |
| 1:20.0 | So I chaired the airport committee among others and when I went in and started asking questions, |
| 1:32.0 | we learned you'll never guess. |
| 1:34.3 | Never guess. |
| 1:35.3 | Rick Vekar, who was the airport director, |
| 1:39.5 | was also, in addition to being the airport director, you think about this, Houston has Hobby and |
| 1:46.1 | IAHH. |
| 1:47.1 | IAH is one of the largest airports in the country and Hobby is bigger than most cities airports and Ellington which is a part of our |
| 1:58.5 | airport system so it's H-A-S Houston Airport System if you ever see that written. |
| 2:02.1 | Veghur had a big Yes, Houston Airport System, if you ever see that written. |
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