HOUSTON (AP) - Newly released emails show a press secretary for Houston’s mayor used city resources, including a publicly-funded television station, to promote personal projects, including a proposed reality show.
According to the thousands of emails released Friday, Darian Ward used her city email account over the last four years to discuss a reality series she was pitching to television networks.
Ward described the program in emails as “the Apprentice meets Shark Tank in stilettos.”
Ward also interviewed six women who were set to be contestants on her program on a 2015 episode of “Press Pass to the City,” which is produced by the city’s television studio.
In a statement Friday, Mayor Sylvester Turner said Ward’s actions were “unacceptable and against policy.”
Ward was suspended last month for two weeks without pay.
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