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Speaker 1 (00:00):
News.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
We're joined by Mayor John Whipmeer. Mayor, Welcome to the show.
It's a busy, busy week. The last week here a
couple of big news items.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Guest every week is busy and certainly I've been there
seven months and I inherited a lot of messes. We're
taking it one bite at a time, and I'm very
just certainly as it relates to public safety, I haven't changed.
(00:30):
It's going to be a no nonsense crime fighting. I'm
very pleased. I took my time at deliberate it on,
so I'm my highest priority. We have other challenges, like
we're still certainly getting ready for the next storm. If
it's a brief I have a full time job. But
(00:52):
back to last week with a new.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well, hang on, hang on a second, mister AMERICAUS. We
have a we have kind of a bad connection right now.
I don't know if you're moving around, but if you
kind of stand still and if you have any like
aluminum foil you can hold in your hand or something,
it's it's it's kind of cutting in and out at
the bumpit. But I know that we'll try with this
question here about the chief you didn't have to look
far to find a new police chief. What about him
(01:15):
stood out to you?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
He's no nu fatter, I've no chief the outs for
twenty years, the DPS, certainly as a ranger, brought him
to my canvas and at HPD for six years on
task force ations, huge investigative experience. No, it's worked in
(01:42):
public corruption. He's puffeted and he's.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
But he's also served time in the the Gator so
Houston and having kept in contact street when he went
to Katie and I kept taking me back to no ideas.
He's a no nonsense any I'm fatter. We're going to
(02:09):
put more officers on the street.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Mister Maryra I hate to do this to you, but hang,
I said, let's let's try to try calling him back
real quick and see if we can re establish contact here,
because we're just it's just cutting out too much, and
I want the mayor to be able to get his
points across without being interrupted. So let me know when
we've gone back on the phone. If we have a
better connection with it, we'll try again. But as I said,
Big Newsweek here, noidas that that decision has been praised
(02:37):
by a lot of people. I haven't found anybody yet
who's had anything negative to say about that hire, So
that that tells me that I think probably the mayor
has been made a very good choice there, very popular choice.
Didn't have to go far to get him, and and
that's a good thing. Certainly, Chief Diaz is going to
have his hands full. You know, we have a crime
issue in Houston's we have all across the country. We
(02:58):
also have a shortage of officers. Again not unique or
unusual for Houston, Texas, but you know, something that is
maybe the more difficult part of the job right now.
And then, of course we've got the other news. They
came down, I think on Friday, was it Friday or Saturday,
came down that Chevron is leaving California and is moving
(03:19):
its operations to Houston. Now. It already has a big
presence in Houston. In fact, it's got more of a
presence in Texas now that it does in California, which
I guess is one of the reasons why they've decided
to make that move. I'm sure the politics of what's
going on in California haven't helped much either, because let's
face it, you know, they're not very energy friendly in California,
(03:42):
and that's a problem if your if your job is
an energy producing company, then you need to be somewhere
where you're wanted and somewhere where you're going to be supported.
Of indentally, they're going to find the environment a little
bit more friendly. I would think you're in Houston seventh. Sorry,
we had the problem with the mayor's phone, but it happens. Well,
we've got to run past the time. At this point,
(04:02):
we can see for the American I mean, we can
get a couple more questions. I mean, if you can
get ahold of them right away, but we're about out
of time. All right, we got them. All right, Let's
try again, Mayor whatmire, Let's try again. Let's see if
I can get you. I want to get your thoughts
on Chevron moving its world headquarters here to Houston.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Well, I think it's a tremendous endorsement of our city.
They have had a huge presence already. I got a
call Friday at seven o'clock in the morning to confirm
that they're moving their headquarters and not to the suburbs
but to downtown Houston. So we have a lot of
work to do. We want to improve the Central business district.
(04:39):
It needs cleaning up. We've got to deal with the
homeless issue. But they're very bullish on Houston and confident
in administration that we're no nonsense toward moving Houston forward.
And I just think it's something to celebrate. But it
also reinforces that if we're going to continue to attract
(05:00):
major corporation businesses, we've got to improve the city. We've
got to improve our infrastructure, deal with flooding, drainage, but
starts with public safety, and it was really a good
week to reinforce public safety as our highest party. We're
going to put more officers on the street, collaborate with
(05:20):
the other departments, certainly partner with DPS, and speak out
about judges that we continue to release people out on
bond that pose a threat to the streets of Houston.
And so we have a lot of work to do.
But I was very pleased with the success last week,
and certainly we get work that Chevron leaves Houston should
(05:42):
be their corporate headquarters. So we should not spend much
time celebrate because they have a lot of work to do.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Well, for one thing, I'm sure you would like Centerpoint
to drastically improve their service, and ironically, that's an area
of energy where we need a little work right now,
would you agree.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
There no doubt, Senate Port's got to do a better job.
We've got to hold them accountable. They need to certainly
do better with their communications, but also they're dealing with
the vegetation we take out this last strong though I've
never seen growing up in Houston being at bottom service
for fifty years. The number of trees, huge trees that
(06:20):
fell in experts coming. It's because we had two storms.
The direction of storm in May saltened the ground and
then the winds Young with Burrow just knocked down seventy
five year o pine trees all over across the Houston.
But it's a priority. We've got three contractors working with
three hundred people in the field every day. It's going
(06:42):
to take time, but I'm on top of this solid
waste director.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Every up there goes, there goes.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
We're committed. We're committed.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
All right, Maybe we can have somebody look at your
cell phone service too, But thank you, mister Bear. Sorry
we had so many technical issues with the phone. Today
twenty nine you're on news radio seven forty K trh
News.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
We're joined by Mayor John Whipmeer. Mayor, Welcome to the show.
It's a busy, busy week. The last week here a
couple of big news items.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Guest every week is busy and certainly I've been there
seven months and I inherited a lot of messes. We're
taking it one bite at a time, and I'm very
just certainly as it relates to public safety, I haven't changed.
(00:30):
It's going to be a no nonsense crime fighting. I'm
very pleased. I took my time at deliberate it on,
so I'm my highest priority. We have other challenges, like
we're still certainly getting ready for the next storm. If
it's a brief I have a full time job. But
(00:52):
back to last week with a new.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well, hang on, hang on a second, mister AMERICAUS. We
have a we have kind of a bad connection right now.
I don't know if you're moving around, but if you
kind of stand still and if you have any like
aluminum foil you can hold in your hand or something,
it's it's it's kind of cutting in and out at
the bumpit. But I know that we'll try with this
question here about the chief you didn't have to look
far to find a new police chief. What about him
(01:15):
stood out to you?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
He's no nu fatter, I've no chief the outs for
twenty years, the DPS, certainly as a ranger, brought him
to my canvas and at HPD for six years on
task force ations, huge investigative experience. No, it's worked in
(01:42):
public corruption. He's puffeted and he's.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
But he's also served time in the the Gator so
Houston and having kept in contact street when he went
to Katie and I kept taking me back to no ideas.
He's a no nonsense any I'm fatter. We're going to
(02:09):
put more officers on the street.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Mister Maryra I hate to do this to you, but hang,
I said, let's let's try to try calling him back
real quick and see if we can re establish contact here,
because we're just it's just cutting out too much, and
I want the mayor to be able to get his
points across without being interrupted. So let me know when
we've gone back on the phone. If we have a
better connection with it, we'll try again. But as I said,
Big Newsweek here, noidas that that decision has been praised
(02:37):
by a lot of people. I haven't found anybody yet
who's had anything negative to say about that hire, So
that that tells me that I think probably the mayor
has been made a very good choice there, very popular choice.
Didn't have to go far to get him, and and
that's a good thing. Certainly, Chief Diaz is going to
have his hands full. You know, we have a crime
issue in Houston's we have all across the country. We
(02:58):
also have a shortage of officers. Again not unique or
unusual for Houston, Texas, but you know, something that is
maybe the more difficult part of the job right now.
And then, of course we've got the other news. They
came down, I think on Friday, was it Friday or Saturday,
came down that Chevron is leaving California and is moving
(03:19):
its operations to Houston. Now. It already has a big
presence in Houston. In fact, it's got more of a
presence in Texas now that it does in California, which
I guess is one of the reasons why they've decided
to make that move. I'm sure the politics of what's
going on in California haven't helped much either, because let's
face it, you know, they're not very energy friendly in California,
(03:42):
and that's a problem if your if your job is
an energy producing company, then you need to be somewhere
where you're wanted and somewhere where you're going to be supported.
Of indentally, they're going to find the environment a little
bit more friendly. I would think you're in Houston seventh. Sorry,
we had the problem with the mayor's phone, but it happens. Well,
we've got to run past the time. At this point,
(04:02):
we can see for the American I mean, we can
get a couple more questions. I mean, if you can
get ahold of them right away, but we're about out
of time. All right, we got them. All right, Let's
try again, Mayor whatmire, Let's try again. Let's see if
I can get you. I want to get your thoughts
on Chevron moving its world headquarters here to Houston.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Well, I think it's a tremendous endorsement of our city.
They have had a huge presence already. I got a
call Friday at seven o'clock in the morning to confirm
that they're moving their headquarters and not to the suburbs
but to downtown Houston. So we have a lot of
work to do. We want to improve the Central business district.
(04:39):
It needs cleaning up. We've got to deal with the
homeless issue. But they're very bullish on Houston and confident
in administration that we're no nonsense toward moving Houston forward.
And I just think it's something to celebrate. But it
also reinforces that if we're going to continue to attract
(05:00):
major corporation businesses, we've got to improve the city. We've
got to improve our infrastructure, deal with flooding, drainage, but
starts with public safety, and it was really a good
week to reinforce public safety as our highest party. We're
going to put more officers on the street, collaborate with
(05:20):
the other departments, certainly partner with DPS, and speak out
about judges that we continue to release people out on
bond that pose a threat to the streets of Houston.
And so we have a lot of work to do.
But I was very pleased with the success last week,
and certainly we get work that Chevron leaves Houston should
(05:42):
be their corporate headquarters. So we should not spend much
time celebrate because they have a lot of work to do.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Well, for one thing, I'm sure you would like Centerpoint
to drastically improve their service, and ironically, that's an area
of energy where we need a little work right now,
would you agree.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
There no doubt, Senate Port's got to do a better job.
We've got to hold them accountable. They need to certainly
do better with their communications, but also they're dealing with
the vegetation we take out this last strong though I've
never seen growing up in Houston being at bottom service
for fifty years. The number of trees, huge trees that
(06:20):
fell in experts coming. It's because we had two storms.
The direction of storm in May saltened the ground and
then the winds Young with Burrow just knocked down seventy
five year o pine trees all over across the Houston.
But it's a priority. We've got three contractors working with
three hundred people in the field every day. It's going
(06:42):
to take time, but I'm on top of this solid
waste director.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Every up there goes, there goes.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
We're committed. We're committed.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
All right, Maybe we can have somebody look at your
cell phone service too, But thank you, mister Bear. Sorry
we had so many technical issues with the phone. Today
twenty nine you're on news radio seven forty K trh
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