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Texas city elects openly gay mayor
Nine News ^ | December 14, 2009

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: anniseparker; gunnysargehartmann; homonaziagenda; homonazis; homonazism; homonazisonthemarch; homosexualagenda; houston; lesbian; lesbonazi; lesbonaziagenda; lesbonazis; lesbonazism; lesbonazisonthemarch; steersandqueers; texas; tx2009
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To: malkee

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.


61 posted on 12/13/2009 6:02:53 PM PST by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Clemenza
What is it that twists your panties so bad about Houston?

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.

62 posted on 12/13/2009 6:03:30 PM PST by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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To: 3722535r

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?


63 posted on 12/13/2009 6:05:04 PM PST by Eagle Eye (3%)
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To: Allegra
I'd put her somewhere slightly below Bloomberg, but about Greg Nickles in Seattle.
64 posted on 12/13/2009 6:05:16 PM PST by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Clemenza

I’d put her somewhere slightly below Bloomberg, but ABOVE Greg Nickles in Seattle.


65 posted on 12/13/2009 6:05:45 PM PST by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: LussaO

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.


66 posted on 12/13/2009 6:07:19 PM PST by Eagle Eye (3%)
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To: Clemenza
I’d put her somewhere slightly below Bloomberg, but ABOVE Greg Nickles in Seattle.

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. :-)

67 posted on 12/13/2009 6:12:09 PM PST by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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To: myknowledge

Texas, your DONE!


68 posted on 12/13/2009 6:13:21 PM PST by TheDailyChange (Politics,Conservatism,Liberalism)
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To: Allegra

Blow cigarette smoke while eating a cupcake made with transfats would cause Mayor Mikey to have a coronary. Very much worth it.


69 posted on 12/13/2009 6:16:41 PM PST by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: TheDailyChange

Uh...yeah. LOL


70 posted on 12/13/2009 6:17:22 PM PST by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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To: Allegra
Don't mess with Texas.

Glad you're there to straighten things our .....eventually.
71 posted on 12/13/2009 6:24:46 PM PST by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress!)
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To: mojitojoe
It’s time to stop playing nice and holding signs up at tea parties. It ain’t working folks.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

72 posted on 12/13/2009 6:25:01 PM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: Eagle Eye

Maybe the candidate sucked?

* * * * * * *

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.


73 posted on 12/13/2009 6:28:46 PM PST by LussaO
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To: Clemenza
Blow cigarette smoke while eating a cupcake made with transfats would cause Mayor Mikey to have a coronary. Very much worth it.

What's up with all those cupcake shops in midtown Manhattan anyway? Is that some trendy thing?

74 posted on 12/13/2009 6:29:12 PM PST by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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To: The Comedian

It’s time to stop playing nice and holding signs up at tea parties. It ain’t working folks.


Not sure any other methods; filming the events and getting the dems saying bad things recorded will work...more under cover stuff like ACORN might work...having a billionaire fund our own TV network would be nice...not electing RINO weenies would be a winner...we need a lot of cash for that, so you can bet all the dough Soros is making off the damage Obama and he are doing is gonna help fund their candidates in 2010 and pay for a lot of dead people’s votes.


75 posted on 12/13/2009 6:29:17 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Keep your head up and keep moving forward!)
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To: Allegra

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.


76 posted on 12/13/2009 6:36:34 PM PST by txhurl
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To: LussaO

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.


77 posted on 12/13/2009 6:36:38 PM PST by Eagle Eye (3%)
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To: The Comedian

I second that emotion!


78 posted on 12/13/2009 6:39:23 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS... taxes, pain and slow death. Is this what you want?)
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To: mojitojoe; The Comedian
It’s time to stop playing nice and holding signs up at tea parties. It ain’t working folks.

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.

79 posted on 12/13/2009 6:43:54 PM PST by Eagle Eye (3%)
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To: Allegra
Was very trendy about 7 years ago, when a place called "Crumbs" opened in the West Village and had lines of cakeboys and fag hags lining up around the block for something that was essentially a half-step up from Hostess.

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.

80 posted on 12/13/2009 6:45:14 PM PST by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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