Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/13/2009 12:56:30 PM PST by myknowledge
The southern city of Houston has become the largest US metropolis to elect an openly gay mayor when Annise Parker, an open lesbian, claimed a solid victory over her rival.
"I know what this win means to many of us who thought we could never achieve high office," she said in her victory speech, at which she introduced her partner Kathy and their three children, according to the Houston Chronicle.
"I understand, because I feel it, too. But now, from this moment, let us join as one community," said Parker, 53.
According to local election data, Democrat Parker won about 53 percent of the vote and opponent Gene Locke, also a Democrat, took 47 percent.
The population of the Texas city is about 2.2 million.
Throughout her campaign, Parker enjoyed the support of gay and lesbian political organizations nationwide, though she did not make her sexual orientation a key issue in the campaign.
Several smaller US cities already have openly gay mayors, including Portland, Oregon; Providence, Rhode Island; and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Parker has worked in the Houston city administration for the last 11 years -- first on the city council, and for the last five years as city controller.
She spent 20 years in the oil and gas industry before entering public service.
Houston elected Lee Brown mayor, a left-wing affirmative action baby who was HATED in NYC for his incompetence. Houstonians (by their voting history and their tradition of putting ghetto trash into decent neighborhoods) is more PC than New York.
You never miss an opportunity to trash this city.
There is plenty that is good about this place, but you'd never mention it. Somewhat reminiscent of how the New York Times operates.
Despite the regular bad mayor choices, Parker is probably no worse than most of the mayors of those far more liberal cesspool cities in the north.
Given the choices in this race I think the people of Houston chose the best they could.
I have no sense of her being a lesbian crusader.
I also had little sense of her opponent being honest after fact checking one of his commercials.
If you are going to automatically discard people because of their homosexuality you are going to cause yourself more problems than you solve.
Are you planning to not count Log Cabin Republican votes? Aren’t they tainted somehow?
I’d put her somewhere slightly below Bloomberg, but ABOVE Greg Nickles in Seattle.
Maybe the candidate sucked? I don’t have the answer but it seems that candidates that don’t do well often lay the blame on the voters that they couldn’t attract and never look at themselves.
I was just in Bloomberg's neighborhood last week.
When walking past City Hall one of those days there, I was really hoping he'd come out so I could blow cigarette smoke in his face. :-)
Texas, your DONE!
Blow cigarette smoke while eating a cupcake made with transfats would cause Mayor Mikey to have a coronary. Very much worth it.
Uh...yeah. LOL
Maybe the candidate sucked?
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How could a conservative candidate “suck” ? I guess Sarah Palin has upped the ante. Now conservatives are going to have to hold good old fashioned family values and be hot to boot.
What's up with all those cupcake shops in midtown Manhattan anyway? Is that some trendy thing?
It’s time to stop playing nice and holding signs up at tea parties. It ain’t working folks.
We have cupcake shops - actually airstream trailers named ‘Hey, Cupcake!’ here in Austin, too. Cute as a bug.
I don’t do cupcakes but I think they’re pretty.
How can a candidate suck?
They can be total jerks. Or they can be marginally competent.
Or like this candidate you refer to, may have some odd sense of entitlement.
Unlike what the GOP thinks, voters do not owe their votes to any candidate or party and no party or candidate owns the votes.
If the candidate cannot attract the votes, then either the candidate failed to earn them or the candidate is in the wrong market.
I second that emotion!
So where would we be right now if there had been no tea parties at all?
Or did you guys expect that the tea parties would fix everything instantly?
Or did you think that the tea parties would be all it took?
I'm in favor of more than tea parties but the tea parties have been crucial so far.
The trend has petered out (the big thing now is gourmet hamburgers and shakes, I kid you not), but there a a few Crumbs franchisees and imitators still around.
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