Posted on 12/14/2009 9:19:13 AM PST by flowerplough
A lesbian candidate won Houston's mayoral election Saturday night, a vote that made the city the largest in the U.S. to ever have an openly gay mayor.
"This election has changed the world for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community. Just as it is about transforming the lives of all Houstonians for the better, and that's what my administration will be about," City Controller Annise Parker told supporters after former city attorney Gene Locke conceded defeat.
Parker got 53 percent of the vote. More than 152,000 residents turned out to cast ballots in the fourth largest U.S. city.
The campaign leading up to Saturday's balloting was marked by anti-gay rhetoric.
Locke congratulated Parker and urged the city to move on. "Here's what our city needs now: It needs unity. It needs us to come together and heal like we've never healed before, and to move forward under a new administration," he said.
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Differ all you want but they aren’t the same......
Birmingham is 71% black and Montgomery is 55%, so obviously. Still, Montgomery being 55% black didn’t keep Strange, a known Republican, from being elected Mayor to replace Bright.
And I’m very familiar with those cities as I happen to live in that big city at the southern end of the state. You know, the one with all the Catholics and beaches.
Thanks for the numbers.
A poor turnout no matter how you cut it.
I think you miss the point. Total population is irrelevant because not everyone can vote. If memory serves me correctly, you can lop a third right of the top of the population of the average American city just to account for those who are under 18. Then you have legal immigrants who aren’t citizens etc etc. My guess would be that only half the population of any given is even eligible to register to vote.
“Only 7% voted in Houston? especially what is at stake..something does not make sense.”
1. It was a dreary, cold rainy day
2. Our choices was either a socially unacceptable person or a black lawyer whose primary distinguisment was as a community organizer
Get the picture now?
I’m at the northern big city in the state...Tennessee Valley area. Very conservative yet out Representative is Parker Griffin, a Blue Dog Democrat. Blue dogs are an endangered species and may go extinct in Northern Alabama in 2010.
I get your point, Melas, but I’m only half facetious when I argue that Democrat/ACORN vote fraud counterbalances the legal immigrants and yoots and chillrun who can’t vote.
The lesbian issue was not allowed “on the table” during the scampaign but now that she has won it is all the MSM cares about.
She’ll pick up the same agenda she held while on City Council.
And she pushes the Green Socialist agenda to.
Is there any quack science she won’t push?
That's nothing, she got 10 times the out-of-state contributions to her campaign that Locke got.
I wish the rest of the nation would STFU as to who runs MY city.
She supports putting 2 officers in patrol cars so that the cops can feel safer.
I wish we had A mayor who would work to make Houston CITIZENS feel safe enough to drive alone.
And our corrupt former Republican DA worked actively to disarm motorists by claiming he would prosecute them as felons in spite of state law.
Conservatives had a chance to vote “other” in the general election in November and stayed home.
Did the local GOP party even get behind the Republican candidate?
Oh, puhlease.....I could give a crap about the sex deviance that these mal-adjusted identity-deficient yahoo's have; why is this "a world changing event"?????
Every major city that is headed for the sewer has a Liberal/Jackass Mayor at the lead....
There have been 2 Hispanic candidates for the mayor’s office in the past 10 years (and the encumbants win 3 in a row always for the term limited office). Houston has never had a Hispanic mayor.
But the local Downtown Democrat owned propaganda paper daily (Houston Comical) never remarks how “historic” it would be to have a Hispanic mayor. In fact, the Democrats put out spanish signs once that said “Sanchez is anti-hispanic”.
The sheep never learn. It isn’t about race or history. It is about downtown property investors and Democrat power.
“Did the local GOP party even get behind the Republican candidate?”
I doubt it. Other than being a former military man, I don’t know what his qualifications were. He might have been on the city council, but I’m not sure. I saw a news clip about him - he looked like a one-man show and his headquarters was a run-down looking little house and he reportedly had $5,000 in his war chest. The odds were so long I don’t know why he bothered.
Nor do we want to be a part of Houston. They took Clear Lake in the 1970's and it is becoming like the rest of Houston - a cesspool.
Not if her "agenda" is to include issues such as gay marriage, teaching school children that homo-sex is normal and to be accepted, promotion of homosexual lifestyles, and the range of other activist positions.
There is no need to attack her personally, but holding accountability vis a vis her viewpoints and positions re: critically important moral issues should be considered by citizens -- especially for a very important job that has a huge influence on public policy.
And pray tell, what influence does the Mayor of Houston have on a "strong military"?
Parker defeated former city attorney Gene Locke with 53.6 percent of the vote Saturday in a race that had a turnout of only 16.5 percent.
"This election has changed the world for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community. Just as it is about transforming the lives of all Houstonians for the better, and that's what my administration will be about," Parker told supporters after Locke conceded defeat.
Being homosexual is no more an issue than being Christian or black. As long as the political office is not used to promote a race, religion or sexual preference. That is why I have a problem with the National Black Caucus.
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