Houston Mayor John Whitmire is taking steps to permanently remove a member of the city’s food insecurity board following racial comments she made on social media about the devastating flooding in the Hill Country that decimated Camp Mystic, a private summer camp for girls.

The senior minister of Houston's First Unitarian Universalist Church is publicly distancing himself from the controversial remarks made by his partner about the Camp Mystic flood disaster that killed 27 campers and counselors over the Fourth of July weekend.