Houston also elected Lee “Out of Town” Brown Mayor after New Yorkers nearly burned him to the stake for his incompetence as police chief. It was also the city dumb enough to believe in suicidal “Christian charity” (which, thankfully, is in short supply around here) and took in the Katrina refs.
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.