Sunny Side /South Park Super Neighborhood

bill white won't make a good governor for African Americans

bill white uses selective and special interest favorites

Memorandum
May 2, 2007

To: Steve Tinnermon, Office of the Mayor of Houston
From: Charles X White, (713-292-3436)
Subject: Meaningless Exercise
Cc. All Civic Club Presidents, Mayor Bill White/cc Richard Lapin

Mr. Tinnermon, after additional thought of our telephone conversation and what I sent you on May 1, 2007, I have these comments.

Mayor Bill White has demonstrated that he is not concerned with serving the needs of the African American community at-large; however, he does serve a very small special interest group of our population.

We have invited him to survey and dialog with us about our needs and views since he has been in office, he has refused through none response, insulting response and intermediaries that cannot and will not facilitate our requests. Council members Wiseman and Edwards are no help in this matter.

This current matter of service and dollars not spent in Sunnyside and contiguous neighborhoods for the past fifty-one years is unmistakeably clear that Mayor White does not include African American communities as part of the grand landscape of the city’s written master plan. Instead using land grab methodology described as urban renewal and progress full of tricks and traps for homeowners, potential homeowners and making our elderly the homeless of tomorrow. This is his legacy. Please don’t compare former Mayor L. Brown.

Professionally and service speaking -- the mayor has selective regard for community so-called leaders authorized by him or passed on from former mayors. However, he has no regard to the progenitor of the emergency and disaster special needs registration that he is currently using as one of his marquee services to the Houston community; no regard for the person that has given his home city nine programs that the city of Houston is currently using since 1989. Certainly everyone doesn’t publicly agree with my view but there is a silent majority that are at least disappointed in the mayor’s lack of effort in addressing real needs instead of slogans and patch work.

I am resolved to the reality of the mayor’s re-election strategy and last term goals and it does not include the African American community in any district other than cameo cosmetics and rhetoric.

Personally, it is not surprising that the mayor does not have the political will for a mass care concept to create a service plan based on need instead of selective political favor. I have not seen or heard of any political will by the mayor to create a master plan/area plans for Houston despite across the board support for such an idea; a combined mapping plan for transportation, growth, flooding etc;.

Mr. Tinnermon, I would like to have a response from the mayor by May 9, 2007 he has had four years to look at his calendar. If he responds please include our two-week timeline notice. The best times are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday from 6:00PM to 8:00PM. Or Saturday from 10:00-12:00 or 1:00PM -3:00PM.

As you know I host the largest quarterly community partnership breakfast in the city of Houston since 2002. Our next breakfast is on May 10, 2007 at 9:00AM with an average attendance of 400 voters. Our overall breakfast reach is 3,800 different people that have attended our breakfasts.