Bob Lanier puts his weight behind builders (ex-Houston mayor(D) against development regulations)

Houston Chronicle ^ | Jan. 9, 2008, 11:29AM | MIKE SNYDER

[TexasCajun]

I would bet the massive problems with Houston's Crime Lab can be traced back to Lee P Period Brown.

No one should get the death penalty based on evidence from Houston's crime lab.

[AuH2ORepublican]

“Bob Lanier’s handpicked successors were Brown and White. I wonder who our next mayor will be.”

---

If history holds, it will be Congressman Al Green. Either that or someone whose last name is Blue, Gray or Black. : )

[tortdog]

>No one should get the death penalty based on evidence from Houston’s crime lab.

Except Mormons. Some solid conservatives told me so.

[weegee]

White CLAIMED he did fix it in his first term. No big worry though, in 2005, no one was going to challenge the “humanitarian” Bill White when he thoughtlessly invited the Katrina evacuees to set up shop here for awhile (of course he then demanded that the state and federal government reimburse the city for expenses and he dared anyone who’d already booked the convention center to “sue him”).

[Barney Gumble]

I bet Mayor Bob and his cronies made tons of money and still making it off all the new downtown developements like Minute-Made park, George R. Brown convention center, the new basketball stadium, new Hilton hotel.

I think a lot of that was our former mayor Out of Town Brown, not Lanier.

Although Houston is rather ugly I credit the lack of government regulation as to why there wasn't a huge spike in housing or the crash that has followed elsewhere.

The supply and demand has been allowed to find natural equilibrium here, whereas elsewhere government meddling has artifically decreased the supply.

[girlscout]

Anyone hearing anything lately about “Tootsie” either???

Haven't heard a peep about Kathy Whitmire in years and years.

[freekitty]

But, but I thought White was Lanier’s heir apparent?

[freekitty]

Yep, was the drug czar who as I far as I can tell went on luxiurious vacations most of the time he was in office of course on the taxpayers dime. And I believe gave his family and friends jobs; etc.

[freekitty]

Heck, Houston allows big rigs on our residential streets. LOL

[Ron H.]

I put Lanier down with the likes of Kathy Whitmire as being two of Houston's scummiest and sleaziest mayors Houston saw during my lifetime. I'm not the least bit surprised that Bob Lanier would be all for turning Houston's skyline into one that even the Soviet slumlords would be jealous of since he is into real estate development like nobody's business.

This man should have been tarred & feathered and run out of town on a rail buggy long ago. He is shameless.

[freekitty]

You said a mouthful there.

[Allegra]

Good grief....that looks like parts of Baghdad.

I didn't see that when I was home less than a couple of weeks ago.

[wazoo1031]

That’s a part of Houston?! What tha? It looks like some Communist Bloc era “development”...

[weegee]

Wasn’t there some congressional scandal with her husband?

[weegee]

It is communist bloc but we are getting this type of thing all over town in SHORT neighborhoods. That is why Lanier is advocating. High density “smart growth” without the infrastructure.

[weegee]

Bob Lanier ‘ran’ business redevelopment deals while running metro, the mayor’s office, and his puppet successors.

And the Chronicle is also part of the scam. Then again LBJ blackmailed the Chronicle to not be critical of his administration in exchange for permitting a bank merger to go through (he held the letter for “insurance”). It came to light in the 1990s when LBJ’s tapes were released.

[girlscout]

Could be ... but I’m currently suffering from the CRS syndrome, so I can’t say for sure.