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John Whitmire: “I'm following the first mayor that was able to serve for 8…”

Featuring: John Whitmire, Nonpartisan | Mayor of Houston | Texas

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Hmm. Made Houston safer. So I've learned from his working experiences. I follow on mayor Turner, who had a lot of different relationships over eight years. What's so interesting is I'm following the first mayor that was able to serve for 8 years in 24 years. Terms of office, Kathy Whitmire had a tenure. She probably helped bring about term limits. People said, well, we'll just go to term limits. (06:00–06:07)

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Asserts that the previous mayor was the first in 24 years to serve an 8-year term.

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