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	Bill White (mayor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William "Bill" Howard White (born June 16, 1954) is the current mayor of the city of Houston, Texas (January 2, 2004 - present).
		White began his career as a lawyer at Susman Godfrey, LLP, a leading Houston law firm, from 1979 to 1993, where he practiced business litigation and anti-trust law, and eventually became partner.
		In 2005, White was challenged for re-election by minor and perennial candidates and won re-election with 91 percent of the vote (a record landslide since Mayor Bob Lanier's re-election in 1995), nullifying the need for a runoff.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_White_(mayor) (425 words)

	Bill White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bill White (mayor), the mayor of Houston, Texas.
		Bill White (Canadian politician) was the first Black Canadian to run for political office in Canada.
		Bill White (neo-Nazi) is the spokesman for the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_White (151 words)

	City of Houston > Mayor Bill White
		Mayor Bill White serves as the Executive Officer of the City.
		As the City's chief administrator and official representative, the Mayor is responsible for the general management of the City and for seeing that all laws and ordinances are enforced.
		The Mayor is responsible for advising Council of the City's financial condition and presents to Council an annual budget for approval.
	www.houstontx.gov /mayor (134 words)

	City of Houston>Mayor Bill White>Biography
		Mayor White works hard to increase jobs, reduce traffic congestion, improve the quality of life in neighborhoods, and make Houston’s City Hall the most efficient in the nation.
		White expanded library and swimming pool hours, brought primary care into three neighborhood clinics, tripled the City’s investment in drainage projects to reduce flooding, and acquired land for a major new park.
		Mayor White has worked to hold the line on property taxes with both tax rate cuts and increases in the senior exemption in each of his budgets.
	www.houstontx.gov /mayor/bio.html (318 words)

	Bill White for Houston :: News
		The mayor pushed hard for more time, saying he agrees evacuees need to move to apartments, but with several thousand still in hotels, the original deadline was impossible to meet.
		White acknowledges that he took "a big risk" in his response to hurricane victims — he estimates the city's evacuee population peaked at 300,000 but is now down to about 150,000, counting both the self-sufficient and the needy.
		White won the mayor's job in 2003, after working hard at the grass-roots level for two years before the election and spending $2.4 million of his own money.
	www.billwhiteforhouston.com /news?id=0059 (1365 words)

	African American News&Issues
		White was exposed to the ugly segregation, racism and discrimination faces in the 1960’s and learned early to respect the freedom struggle for African Americans and Hispanics and work to make a difference, while growing up in San Antonio.
		White said he had a lot of time to think, while commuting more than 50 minutes to work each day, and not only get a bird’s eye view of the needs and neglect in his own neighborhood and other areas, but also experienced the daily pressing traffic concerns citizens face getting to work.
		White said aided his ability to move forward with African-Americans was the examination of candidate platforms that yielded many similar commitments to mass transit, neighborhood and drainage improvements.
	www.aframnews.com /html/2005-04-27/lead3.htm (2112 words)

	UT Law Alum Bill White, Class of 1979, is New Mayor of Houston
		AUSTIN, Texas – Businessman Bill White, a 1979 graduate of The University of Texas School of Law, is the new mayor of Houston, after winning a runoff election on Dec. 6.
		White, 49, a former chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, earned a spot in the mayoral race runoff after no single candidate claimed more than 50 percent of the votes in the Nov. 4 election.
		White graduated from the Law School in 1979 with highest honors, and was elected editor-in-chief of the Texas Law Review.
	www.utexas.edu /law/news/2003/121703_billwhite.html (266 words)

	City Mayors: Bill White - Mayor of Houston
		Its city chief Bill White was re-elected for a second term with massive support in 2005 and is even rumoured to be seeking the state governorship.
		Mayor White was born in San Antonio in 1954, the child of schoolteachers.
		The mayor was also praised for his leadership in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, providing resources for the housing of the many displaced New Orleans residents who had come to the city fleeing disaster.
	www.citymayors.com /mayors/houston_mayor.html (1109 words)

	CBSNews.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Democratic incumbent Winner: Bill White, 51, is the current mayor of Houston, starting his term Jan. 2, 2004.
		White was a tort lawyer and partner at the Susman Godfrey law firm.
		White is a graduate of Harvard University and University of Texas School of Law.
	www.cbsnews.com /htdocs/politics/2005_elections/states_tx.html (198 words)

	Off the Kuff: Where does Bill White go from here?
		Mayor Bill White says he is not running for governor in 2006.
		Since Mayor Bill White will win by huge margins, it may be possible for voters to both have their Mayor and to tell the Mayor to support paper ballot evidence in elections, by writing in for Mayor: PAPER BALLOT EVIDENCE.
		Bill White can serve as mayor and run for governor simultaneously as well as, or better than, Rick Perry can serve as governor and run for governor, or George Bush can serve as president and run for president.
	www.offthekuff.com /mt/archives/006342.html (1571 words)

	Mayor Bill White’s Own Property Taxes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Mayor Bill White can’t be very concerned about the city having to cut basic services or about your property tax pain.
		Mayor White’s gated community personal residence at 101 Stablewood Court has a fair market value of $2,803,200, according to the attached page excerpted from the Harris County Appraisal District’s official website.
		To those politicians who view this article as getting personal and the so-far-reluctant-to-report-on-it media, you better believe the mayor’s property tax situation is very personal to suffering Houston taxpayers, who will not benefit one red cent from the mayor’s smoke and mirrors Prop 1.
	www.revcap.org /mayor.htm (310 words)

	In Search of Bogus Bill (Bill White/Sylvester Turner, Houston Mayoral Race Dirty Campaign Trick) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Flores claimed the initial plan she worked out with Hubbard was to recruit a white male to run for mayor who was not a supporter of candidate White, had the same name and did not have a criminal record.
		After the bogus Bill agreed to run, Flores says, she paid him $1,200 in cash, using the sham purchase of the straw hat he was wearing as a not very convincing cover for the inducement to file for office.
		The bill features a picture of White and his signature -- as it appeared on a campaign check White wrote to a woman after she dropped a plot to register another man named Bill White as a mayoral candidate.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/999147/posts (2142 words)

	Political.com :: Political Gossip presented by George Strong & Associates
		White spokesman Michael Moore confirms the check was written on the campaign's bank account because Flores felt she was been "threatened" for blowing the cover of the Bill White namesake scheme.
		White was recruited on Saturday and Sunday this last weekend and in fact was taken shopping in Northline Mall and then to dinner at Ryan's Steakhouse on W 34th with his girlfriend, the girlfriends daughter and three children.
		White had disappeared and was never filed although he was threatened by ----- and a cohort that his social security disability would be cut off if he ever spoke of all this.
	www.political.com /gossip-arc/0586.html (2527 words)

	Political.com :: Political Analysis presented by George Strong & Associates
		I have known Bill White casually for 25 years or so (about the same as my acquaintance with Orlando Sanchez and Sylvester Turner), and knew he would be a potentially strong candidate for mayor when he began pointing to the race in 2002.
		Bill is smart, has a tremendous work ethic, lots of friends across the political spectrum, and had apparently amassed sufficient wealth to provide the seed money for a high dollar campaign.
		Bill White had clearly been preparing for this race for a long time, and when his chance came he was ready.
	www.political.com /analysis-arc/0513.html (1981 words)

	WILLisms.com: The First Casualty of Mayor Bill White's "Safe Clear" Towing Program.
		When Bill White, a prominent Democrat, former chairman of the state party, first became Mayor of Houston, Texas, in 2003, he was the city's Golden Boy.
		Mayor White frittered away whatever political capital he had the day he announced his "Safe Clear" program, essentially a city-run towing racket.
		White has said the reimbursed towing would cost the city about $300,000 a year, but Anne O'Ryan of the Texas AAA believes the cost would be more than $600,000 a year.
	www.willisms.com /archives/2005/01/the_first_casua_1.html (1811 words)

	The Blog \| Dr. Ralph Dittman: Houston: Mayor Bill White is a Problem-Solving Machine \| The Huffington Post
		Mayor White had moved his command staff to the HECC (Headquarters Emergency Command Center) near North Sheppard and Tidwell, while County Judge Robert Eckels set up his command post in the Transtar facility.
		A Democrat, Bill White had previously served as Deputy Secretary of Energy of the United States, and has served on the Executive Committee of the Greater Houston Partnership, and on the boards of numerous public and non-profit organizations.
		Mayor White lead one the largerst cities in the USA to safety.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /ralph-dittman/houston-mayor-bill-white_b_7897.html (1598 words)

	The White Stuff, 12/17/2004 - The Texas Observer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The mayor has a 76-percent approval rating, according to the Houston Chronicle, and is praised by a broad spectrum of the city from immigrants to the business community.
		Bill White is a long-time subscriber to The Texas Observer.
		It started before I was mayor by having a sea change in the business community where we passed a resolution supporting compliance with the EPA targets and goals.
	www.texasobserver.org /showArticle.asp?ArticleFileName=041217_f3.htm (2361 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation > Hurricane Katrina -- Houston mayor miffed at new rules on evacuee housing
		HOUSTON – Mayor Bill White has complained in an angry letter to the federal government that FEMA blindsided city officials with a new deadline of Dec. 1 to move Katrina refugees out of hotels.
		White also objected to a mandate that refugees move into apartments with three-month leases, noting that few landlords offer such short leases, thereby sharply reducing the number of FEMA-qualified apartments.
		White said that in discussions in September, when thousands of evacuees began arriving in Houston primarily from devastated Louisiana, FEMA encouraged extensions of apartment leases from six months to a year, broadening the availability of apartments.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/katrina/20051117-1433-katrina-hotelevacuees.html (555 words)

	Click2Houston.com - Politics - Bill White Begins 2nd Term As Houston's Mayor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		White led the local resettlement effort, fighting with federal officials to get money to Houston, and then had to evacuate Houston when Hurricane Rita threatened the nation's fourth largest city in September.
		The mayor has received some criticism from council members for what they consider an autocratic style and from some leaders of minority groups who believe he has focused too much on beautifying the central parts of the city at the expense of inner-city needs.
		White said public and private cooperation will be needed between residents and city officials to continue to improve Houston's quality of life.
	www.click2houston.com /politics/5818012/detail.html?rss=hou&psp=news (711 words)

	WOAI: San Antonio News - Bill White sworn in as Houston's 60th mayor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		White said he would make the city's neighborhoods better by working to provide more parks, libraries and health clinics.
		White, 49, succeeds Lee Brown, who was barred by term limits from seeking a fourth two-year term.
		White, state Democratic party chairman from 1995 to 1998, served as a deputy energy secretary in the Clinton administration.
	www.woai.com /news/state/story.aspx?content_id=7AFC0CED-A34A-4939-9157-64AA868903D0 (343 words)

	CNN.com - First-time candidate wins Houston mayor's race - Dec. 7, 2003
		With all precincts reporting, Bill White had 136,617 votes to 81,824 for Orlando Sanchez, or 63 percent to 37 percent.
		White, 49, a former chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, spent some $2.2 million of his own fortune as part of a record $8.6 million effort in the race against Cuban-born Sanchez, a Republican making a second bid to become Houston's first Hispanic mayor.
		White topped eight other candidates in last month's election with 38 percent of the vote, falling short of the 50 percent he needed to win outright and succeed Lee Brown, barred by term limits from seeking a fourth two-year term.
	www.cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/12/06/houston.mayor.ap (379 words)

	Bill White
		Houston, Tex. - Mayor: Bill White (to Dec. 2007) 2000 census population (rank): 1,953,631 (4); % change: 19.8;...
		2 de enero, una nueva era para Houston "Soy Bill White...": aunque muchos querian un alcalde hispano, en su discurso Bill White se muestra mas cercano y preocupado por asistir e integrar a las diversas comunidades de Houston y por resolver sus problemas.
		Bill White: the National League's new boss; baseball selects the first Black to head a major-league sports organization.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0109745.html (299 words)

	Men Mayor - OutSmart - This Issue
		Mayoral candidates Sylvester Turner and Bill White both scored well and nearly identically after screening with the Houston Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus.
		After a previous mayoral bid in which he was accused in a KTRK television report of participating in a multi-million dollar insurance scam while a partner at Barnes, Morse and Turner that he said negatively affected the race, Turner sued the television station and won.
		Bill White is a San Antonio native who graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in economics, from the University of Texas law school, and then served as the editor-in-chief of the school’s law review.
	www.outsmartmagazine.com /issue/i10-03/f-3-Men_Mayor.php (1546 words)

	Houston Police Retired Officers Association
		During the approximate 45 minute meeting we were impressed with the candid manner in which Mayor White addressed our questions as we discussed the well-publicized financial difficulties which the City of Houston is projecting, partly due to retirement commitments that have been made to employees over the years.
		The Mayor explained that some financial studies are still in progress, which would, of course, affect how certain options would be considered.
		As we expected, the Mayor offered no firm commitments regarding retirement benefits, but it is fair to say that portions of the meeting were encouraging.
	www.hpdretired.com /screenprint.cfm?newsletterid=2956 (293 words)

	A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT: MAYOR BILL WHITE BREATHING SIGH OF RELIEF
		Mayor Bill White of Houston and Judge Robert Eckels of Harris County (both of whom displayed stellar leadership in coordinating Rita-preparation efforts and post-Rita emergency response) must be breathing a collective sigh of relief this morning.
		Mayor Bill White said the only place that appeared to have road flooding was the Edgebrook area in southeast Houston.
		Filed in: Rita and Bill White and Judge Eckels and Houston and Galveston and Harris County
	acertainslantoflight.blogspot.com /2005/09/mayor-bill-white-breathing-sigh-of.html (526 words)

	The Houston Police Officers' Union \| Badge & Gun - October 2003
		Declaring that Houston businessman Bill White has the financial skills “to get Houston moving again,” the Houston Police Officers’ Union endorsed him for mayor in the Nov. 4 city election.
		At that time we were not organized, we didn’t have an elected bargaining agent, we didn’t have a contract and we didn’t have a substantial PAC and a well-deserved reputation that goes with it.
		HPOU’s POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE TIRELESSLY screened all major candidates for mayor of Houston and found that Bill White meets the criteria necessary to merit the votes of all Houston police officers, their families and their friends.
	www.hpou.org /badgeandgun/index.cfm?IssueID=18 (344 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Former Mayors Bob Lanier, Fred Hofheinz and Louie Welch made the announcement at a news conference with Mayor Lee Brown.
		Former Mayor Kathy Whitmire did not fly in from her home in Hawaii, but sent a statement of endorsement.
		They said they are backing White over his opponent Orlando Sanchez because they believe White has the management experience and is best qualified to lead Houston.
	www.officer.com /news/IBS/kprc/news-1886407.html (252 words)

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