Whitmire Told Us Who He Was When He Won Election

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Above is a picture I screen-shotted off John Whitmire's Twitter page on municipal runoff Election Day last December. It struck me as classless at the time. Whitmire is looking at a TV showing how much he was winning by over Shelia Jackson Lee. You won. Did you have to rub it in? 

I wanted to use the picture at the time. But I figured I'd wait to see how Whitmire governed.

He's governed in a way consistent with the picture. He's more comfortable with Republicans than Democrats, makes unilateral decisions, demeans people he does not agree with and talks over people.

I'll use the well-used Maya Angelou line of "When somebody shows you who they are, believe them the first time." (Here are many Maya Angelou quotes.)  

John Whitmire made sure to let us all know who he was on runoff Election Day last year.   

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