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Privatization of Houston's municipal golf courses has been a bad deal for everybody but the operators. But golfers and taxpayers had best look out: the city's on the verge of giving away two more of it courses.

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That his dire predictions have come true frustrates Gordon, but at 76 and still packing an acid tongue, he's not about to stop wagging it.

"I'm against this privatization," he says flatly. "It hasn't saved the city a damn penny. We have to pay for somebody else to make money, and that's all they're doing. It's one of the biggest thief jobs done in this city.

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