I signed on to help Gene Locke close to a couple of weeks ago to help out wherever I could. I asked for and received the latest payroll info regarding the Controller’s office. I crunched the numbers and found out the following:
Average salary for Anglos: $80,596.
Average salary for Asian Americans: $59,088.
Average salary for African Americans: $54,086.
Average salary for Latinos: $53,980.
Of the top ten paid employees in that department: 8 Anglos, 1 Latino, 1 Asian American. African Americans didn’t crack the top ten.
Don’t even try to defend this. This isn’t right. There is no excuse. This has been going on for the last six years.
The Harris County Tejano Democrats (HCTD) and Houston Black American Democrats (H-BAD) called out the Controller on her hiring practices. This is a valid issue to some folks like me. HCTD and H-BAD were attacked for putting it out in a press release.
The city is over 70% Latino and African American. Look, in the private sector and the public sector, the folks that draw the bigger salaries are usually the ones that are the most important and make the decisions. These are just the facts.
I’m sure someone will see fit to crack on me and try to make me look contradictory by pulling out some stuff that I said in the past. Just don’t try to spin these bad numbers in some other direction.
Yesterday the Controller’s Office got very political and put out a report calling for the County to get off of it’s arse and sign on to the soccer stadium deal. I kind of found it a bit disingenuous in light of the fact that she cracked on the soccer stadium in her earlier TV ads.
According to the KJEVDR, 10% of the voters are non Nov. 3. They are Latino at 9%, African American at 34%, Asian American at 6%, and Anglos at 51%. They are DEM 59%, REP 21%, No Primary 20%. I wonder who this helps.
From MLB’s Brian McTaggart: “Free-agent infielder Placido Polanco, who won his second Gold Glove this year for the Detroit Tigers, has drawn serious interest from the Astros, according to baseball sources.
Polanco, 34, is a 12-year veteran who batted .285 with 10 home runs and 72 RBIs last season with the Tigers and finished 25th in the American League voting for Most Valuable Player. A two-time Gold Glove winner, Polanco was the MVP of the 2006 AL Championship Series. He’s a .303 career hitter.”
Former ‘Stro Billy Wagner is now with the Braves.
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I can’t wait for you to provide the same statistical breakdown and salaries for Andrews & Kurth’s Houston office since Mr. Locke has been bragging about its diversity.
It will be very interesting to compare the numbers.
Also, does Andrews & Kurth provide protection against discrimination and harassment to people based on their sexual orientation, or do they condone that attacks that gay people are not fit to be employed as does Steve Hotze and his endorsed candidate, Gene Locke?
Let’s get real about who is discriminating. Mr. Locke is aligned with Steve Hotze which says more about him than any numbers you can produce or manipulate and everyone is well aware of it.
I assume the same breakdown has been done for all these groups supporting Mr. Locke, such as the Police group. Interesting this imposition of minority breakdown of the controller’s office with no reference to position, time on the job, responsibility. And I wonder where you put Terence McNeill of the controller’s office who is in fact a self-identified Hispanic, despite his name. Just one change would drastically change your figures.
Nothing like waiting 6 years to bring this issue up.