Mayor John Whitmire says city is 'broke' following landmark deal

FOX 26 Political Reporter Greg Groogan has more on what was said following the landmark deal between the city and Houston firefighters.

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[PumpkinKingXXIII]

Every municipality, every city, every town, every county, every state and the whole dang nation is broke. Politicians just can’t say No to spending others cash

[agenttexx]

Before anyone agrees to any kind of bail out, they need a full audit to see where all of the money went.

[SweetNeoCon]

This didn't happen overnight. It's the result of years of mismanagement.

[KGRK]

Sounds like he is telling it "like it is". What a RARITY !😲

[JohnnyWinters-okix]

Things are caving in after years of grift and greed in this country.

[bigedslobotomy]

The problem with tax increases (asking the tax payer to “step up”) is that historically, for every $1 of increased taxes, spending goes up $1, 50!

[Mfgguy]

How does a growing city, in a growing state, with growing jobs, go broke? Poor management and policy for many years. What a joke.

[Tryzle]

If they would simply just follow the money & ask how our former Mayor became a multi-millionaire would be a great start.

[homerj]

City council should take a 10% pay cut right away

[Anthony-GG]

too many people in that meeting - cut some jobs in government.

[Saddletramp]

Now You know why the former Mayor was always Smiling.

[Charles-zflk]

Thank you, Mayor Turner! For a wonderful f*cked up job you’ve done in the past eight years.🤗

[conecrazy]

160 million in the red, yet our property taxes kept going up every year. Gee I wonder where all that money went?

[nategz]

Make the Texans, rockets, Astros and Dynamo pay us for funding and building their stadiums.

[-maccabee]

These idiots spend all our money, go broke, then ask us to go broke to bail them out... harrrrd NO

[jerrycaughman]

Haven’t had a Republican mayor since the early 80‘s. Why am I not surprised they have a huge deficit.

[chesterthamolester]

Turner, Sheila Lee and J Prince are to blame.

[JemicoTX]

You know what else is "broke" in Houston? The crime rate.

[rsisente]

Until the attitude changes from “where can we get more money” to “how do we control spending” this will happen again, and again.

[nickwinn]

Cut services and stop spending more money than what your bringing in. I don't know why cities don't understand balanced budgets.