Houstons Loss and Remembering a Legend and My Hero!
Monday, July 30th, 2007Today is a sad day in the world, Houston, and The Lone Star State (Texas) we lost a huge asset a common man, a community activist, a journalist, a playboy, a family man, a good friend and a watch dog not in the pockets of corruption that ousted him from his career in the Harris county sheriffs office.
A look back and day of remembrance for Marvin Zindler, Marvin was born into privilege, lost his fathers money and was disowned for being a “play boy” and foolish ambissions, got fired from the sheriffs office for “doing his job to well” Dave ward another old timer and one of the new anchors I admire amongst others.
For those non-Houstonians, space city (
As the more liberal era, and parts of midtown and cheep rents and blights in the late 80s to early to mid 1990’s the north and suburbs became the right-wing grass roots, unity happened and Marvin was more liberal and a warrior early on such as long time other early activists into the more liberal boom of the 1990s and the boom of more tech, IT and biotech and shipping and warehousing thought the union and plant shut downs, cheap housing and moving to the current more liberal inner city growth and progression (Dallas had a similar fate given it is similar to Houston in some ways and different in others)
Long term warriors and folks like Marvin fought for the common person, man, woman and poor, change, embarrassed the dirty eating establishments, broke up organized crime. (the best little whore house of
We fought hard and had the sod my laws and laws for obscenity and sexual and gender identity and laws tossed out that were often into the 1980s and even into the early 2000s were used to harass any “obvious” GLBT person and even local change, elected officials and leadership such as Bill White and Anise Parker who have fought very hard for change. Marvin is on of a kind, my hero, role model and aspiration to make it big in media, if a flashy ahead of his time, loveable, kind, charitable obscure outsider in his unique catchphrases and reporting and accident and to endure reporting to the end. Can do it and live to a ripe old age, so can
I want to be flashy, loud, proud and uncensored something’s you cant say, do or blog about on local or regular broadcasting. I want to be somewhere in-between Marvin zindler, Michael more, ray hill, tank girl, batty page.
The reality is mind over matter It works if you work it!
Leeeeeeeeeeeeeee Mccccc GGGGGGG
Have a good week, good
Lee McInnis Gaetjens
LEEMCG.com
(we love you Marvin)