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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Now, don't try to tell us that homosexuals are just another minority group... As my post above yours stated this new Mayor's quote and viewpoint on her lesbianism and her new world of "gay, lesbian, transgendered" blah, blah, blah.
Austin must be really jealous.
I had forgotten all about this runoff since it was tween 2 liberal rats.
Yeah, no dog in this hunt. Real history would’ve been made if a Republican had won. As far as I know, they’ve not had one since Reconstruction, and it was a small town in those days.
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