More bad press for Jordy Tollett? (updated)
It's not a secret that Mayor White isn't Jordy Tollett's number one fan, as Richard Connelly told us a couple of years ago (via Kevin Whited's personal blog):
White is annoyed and is looking to oust Tollett, the rumor mill says.
Tollett has legendary survival skills -- he is to Houston mayoral administrations what cockroaches are to nuclear Armageddon -- but the mayor offered a noticeably tepid endorsement of him when given the chance to dispel the gossip at an August 25 meeting with the Houston Press.
Tollett is "colorful," the mayor said, not in a way that indicated he thought "colorful" was a key attribute for the job. "I want the [convention] bureau to book citywide conventions…and if they don't, there will be personnel changes. If they do, then that's results.
Then we had the Essence Festival criticism from last week.
Now KPRC-2 is teasing a story that will run Monday night which apparently has undercover video of the Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau chief at (what appears to be) a bar. Over the footage, KPRC anchor Dominique Sachse says (I'm paraphrasing here):
What is the head of Houston's Convention and Visitors Bureau doing when he should be drumming up business for the city? Would this get you fired from your job?
The story is set to air on Monday at 10 p.m.
It will be interesting to see how much longer Mayor White is willing to put up with Tollett.
PREVIOUSLY: Jordy Tollett, special hunter with very special shoes
BLOGVERSATION: Isiah Carey's Insite.
UPDATE: Robert Arnold had the story for KPRC which included undercover video of Tollett taking two hour lunches at a bar, showing off his "funky" shoes, and driving off in his Corvette. Arnold pointed out that Tollett makes almost $200,000 per year. Arnold talked with Mayor White at the end of the piece and the mayor said it could be time for a change at GHCVB.
If Mayor White follows through, Tollett will have more time for his lunches, without any pesky journalists keeping tabs on him.
UPDATE: The KPRC story is posted here.
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 07/09/06 11:57 AM | Houston People | Print | Comments (44)
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