Posted on 12/01/2016 5:05:35 PM PST by Fred Hayek
Austin Police Department Chief Art Acevedo has accepted a job as Houston’s police chief, he confirmed Thursday from Houston.
Acevedo publicly accepted an offer from Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, saying he "looked forward to the challenge" during a press conference.
"I believe the timing is right for me to take on the opportunity to work for Mayor Turner and lead the men and women of the Houston Police Department and serve the people of Houston," he said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at texastribune.org ...
Oh, crap ping!!
I wonder about something, and I don’t know the answer - maybe someone from the area could chime in...
Austin is where the University of Texas is, right?
Is Austin demonstrably and obviously more liberal than Texas generally?
How about Houston?
They both are... higher taxes, in debt up to their eyeballs, unfunded pensions, but Austin is at least beautiful so it draws a bunch of non-performers that hang around way too long after college (if they ever went).
Oh, crap ping!!”
You said that right. Moved to Houston in 1985 when it was a great, albeit struggling, city. Moved to the suburbs nine years ago and so glad I did. The City survived Lee Brown and former Mayor Porker but don’t know about this current combination. And the Super Bowl is coming to town shortly. Good place to stay away from.
Austin is the Californicate of Texas
I read his bio. What makes you believe that he is "no friend of law abiding gun owners"?
Just curious. I had never heard of him.
I think that the editor missed the incorrectly spelled “Ruin” in the title of the article.
GAYDAR PEGGING and Smoking
Crud!
Oh Crap ! ping
Thanks, Tilted Irish Kilt.
Is Austin demonstrably and obviously more liberal than Texas generally?
How about Houston?
See above image.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3234807/posts
Police Chief: Turn in Friends & Neighbors Who Are ‘Gun Enthusiasts’ So Cops Can ‘Vet’ Them
A little more on Houston’s new police chief.
This is KGB/Stasi crap.
Time for me to leave Houston, maybe even Harris County with the new Demorat sheriff.
Bad police chiefs don’t retire, they just move on to screw up another city.
Austin is extremely liberal. Acevedo is extremely liberal. You’d think it would be a match, right? Then why has Acevedo been trying to leave Austin for months now? He almost accepted a job in San Antonio late last year, but our extremely liberal mayor felt comfortable offering him more of our tax dollars to stay. There was a collective groan over it. Even his own police officers don’t like him. Nobody with any sense wanted him to stay. I hate to pawn him off on some other unsuspecting city, but I’d wish for whatever it takes to get rid of him.
He wants our guns, even encouraged neighbors to turn each other in so he can “investigate” gun issues. Soviet Russia came to mind when he first issued that statement.
He also went to Washington to hobnob with Obama concerning their mutual love of illegal immigration/invasion. He would have loved a spot in that administration if only his fawning adoration could have earned him one. It is an open secret that he has his eye on federal politics. Meanwhile, he was pretending to represent Austin’s viewpoint on immigration. Bah. He wasn’t representing me and the whole charade made me mad. I wish I could have gone there and kicked his sorry rear end all the way back home. Or better yet, revoked his return ticket and told him to just stay there. I resented every city tax dollar it took to transport his butt there and back again.
Yes, he’s liberal. And corrupt.
I can’t speak for Houston, but Austin is a liberal dystopia. Rush’s comment a while back is that liberals run our city like it’s their own private kingdom. He couldn’t be more right. City council is a cesspool.
They passed a city wide bag ban in the wee hours after they’d sent everyone home who was there to state opposition and offer alternative solutions, telling them that they were going to wait another few days before ruling on it. Every body woke up the next morning with the ban a done deal.
We’ve got so many transplants from California here now that the city doesn’t even belong in Texas anymore. It is a communist enclave with very little opposition. Those of us who are outraged by what is happening are not represented thanks to recent gerrymandering.
Prop 1 was passed a few weeks ago. The canyon dwellers and spandex Nazi’s loved it. I don’t think it has sunk in yet just what a nightmare it is going to create from an already nightmarish traffic situation. Part of the proposition requires removing dedicated turn lanes in a busy part of the city and replacing that space with rest areas for bicyclists. Meanwhile, left turn traffic is going to back up and choke the lanes of cars who want to go straight through. We already have serious problems with road rage due to constipated traffic flow and LA types who can’t stay off their horns. This will only make that worse.
Prop 1 also removes parking from downtown businesses which will kill those businesses. Businesses were being vandalized who put out signs opposing Prop 1. There is a whole list of other things it does that are equally destructive.
It is all an effort on the part of our demented city council to “encourage” travelers to take public transportation instead of driving. They think that making traffic so punishing that no one will want to drive their cars is an excellent way to do that. There is nothing so outrageous or idiotic that a liberal won’t want to try it.
In Cal they let the bikes “share” a full lane. So you can be driving along in the morning commute like on the Coast Hwy in Encinitas in CA and then the right lane will have a bottleneck because some person on a bike is doing 15 miles and hour in a 35-40 mile per hour zone. Then everyone squeezes over to the left. About 10 miles of this nonsense.
No friend to the street level cop either. He had a tendency to throw his officers under the bus to suit his political needs. He was more likely to blame the officer than to blame the idiot trying to commit the crime.
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