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I'm all for voting for the person that is most qualified for a job.
HOUSTON, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Houston City Controller Annise Parker became the first openly gay person elected mayor of a major U.S. city in Saturday's runoff race.
With almost all the vote counted, Parker led former City Attorney Gene Locke by about 8,000 votes, the Houston Chronicle reported.
Turnout was low for the runoff, a non-partisan race pitting two Democrats against each other.
Parker, a veteran city official, soft-pedaled her sexual iden y during the campaign and emphasized her experience, The New York Times reported. Parker was the top vote-getter in the first-round election.
"I am not running to be a role model," she said in a debate. "I am running to be the mayor of Houston."
Locke was endorsed by the police union and ran on a law-and-order platform. Locke, who is black, was also expected to win the majority of black votes.
"White liberal Democrats are behind Parker, and African-Americans are going to go with Locke," Marc Campos, a Locke consultant, told the Times. "Moderate Republicans, fiscal conservatives -- they're going to be the ones who decide this."
While the candidates did not talk publicly about Parker's sexual orientation, others did. Shortly before the election, a group of black ministers said she had a sexual agenda, and the Chronicle reported earlier this week two Locke campaign officials helped a group that sent out an anti-gay mailing.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/...4111260662206/
this thread should be fun. i don't have a problem with it, just with gay marriage, im suprised cnn hasnt covered this, they usually go nuts with these issues
I'm all for voting for the person that is most qualified for a job.
thats nice
clam licking!
slowly, texas is turning into a blue state.
time to change the Texans name to the Beavers.
Yes. Very slowly. How many statewide offices do the Dems hold right now?
You could at least wait for the GOP to lose just one statewide office in Texas to the Dems before you call them all pussies, don't you think?
Or did you mean the Houston Texans?
I'm sorry, PO, do carry on.
jam out with your clam out, hustletown!!!!
"texas is turning into a blue state."
never. Some Christian supremacist bubba will probably rape her (because God told him to) to convert her from the unnatural, sinful, chosen lifestyle (and show her what's she's been missing).
what if she marries her partner?
Dude, do you have a mental disorder? WTF?
you Aggie inbreds, some are my best friends so I know, surely subscribe to the bubba philosophy that the only thing a lesbo needs is a good to put back on the right track.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 12-13-2009 at 12:08 PM.
she just needs to stop liking her own kind. she obviously chose women over men so she deserves to be ridiculed
I'm surprised the Fundies came up short with their religiot attack dog BS in TX. That doesn't happen but once in a blue moon.
Seriously. You are a walking bag of leftist stereotypes. I almost feel sorry for you. Life's going to be a for someone so ignorant and close minded.
We won't let the gays get married, we shouldn't let them hold seats in office. Just saying.
Don't mind Boutons, he is a recovering tourettes baby.
What else do you think they shouldn't be allowed to do?
What else?
Do you mean Bill White, Blade?
Margo Frasier worked out OK in Travis County, I thought. Her being a lesbian didn't much effect her being sheriff that I could tell.
Last edited by Winehole23; 12-14-2009 at 01:36 AM. Reason: mispelled sheriff
non-issue
as long as she does the job well, her personal life should stay out of it
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