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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Oh, my. It’s Helen Degenerate!!!!!
Frankly, if a gay is for lower taxes and less government and a strong military, I really don’t care about their orientation. It’s just that most gays are extremely liberal.
“Could Hurricane Katrina have something to do with this?”
Yes, the Katrina evacuees provided more votes for Gene Locke who was Parker’s opponent.
That's like asking, "Why can’t repubs turn out a good chicken to watch the fox house?" No way does a genuine Republican ever win (or want to win) a race to become mayor of a concentrated Democrat parasite nest ("city"). Those places are strictly Democrat, and they can have 'em.
No, that would be Austin.
“Its the suburbs that turn Harris County into a conservative outpost.”
Harris County is SO Conservative that it voted for Obama in 2008.
Maybe that is true, but her statements belie that position, and ANYTIME a "hyphenated" candidate - i.e . african-American, lesbian-American, etc. attains an office they ALWAYS have an alternate agenda of pushing their viewpoint or lifestyle. This usually ends up conflicting with what is best for the people.
why is it every single minority winner says now that they have been elected, there is hope. i thought the “minorities” are the ones who want society to be equal and blind to the thing that makes them a minority. yet when they win, its all about whatever has made them a minority. wierd.
Population of Houston: 2,245,108
Number of TOTAL votes: 150,000
She won with 53% of the votes ... ~80,000 votes out of a population of over 2.2 Million.
And people say their vote doesn’t count - well, if they don’t bother to vote, they are certainly correct. Hoston has no one to blame, except for themselves.
There is obviously some split in a county that sends both Sheila Jackson Lee and John Culberson to DC. The point was that the most conservative parts of the county do not participate in city elections.
SnakeDoc
“If you live in Houston, it’s about time to get your children out of the government schools.”
“Pronto.”
“Queer indoctrination will become a major part of the curriculum there soon, if it isn’t already.”
Nice try, but the Mayor of Houston has not jurisdiction in the public schools and the people of Houston have not elected Parker to city wide office seven consecutive times.
And whose fault is that? That’s right. The suburbs, for not letting themselves be annexed and insisting on forming their own little governments.
We have the same problem in my city right now. We could very easily keep things as they are by annexing the unincorporated suburbs just west of the city that would up the population by more than 25% plus take in the areas that are rapidly growing but every time we put it to a vote these people say no.
We’ll eventually take them in by court order because we’ve begun providing city services to them and state law allows annexation without a vote if there is “significant burden” but it shouldn’t come to that. These people all work in the city proper. Their social associations are all in the city proper. When they go out of town they say they are from here and use the city. Is it too much to ask them to be annexed? They are city people, they just have moved outside the corporate limits.
It’s what has done in every city in this country, except oddly, cities in states like Texas which have very permissive annexation laws. Suburbanities should really start putting the good of their whole areas as their primary interest because, if the primary city dies, it takes all those little suburbanites with them just like you see in Detroit.
so she’s the girl in the relationship?
Too bad nothing about her (or her opponent’s) background and qualifications for office was discussed in this article ... and many others like it.
She’s gay. She’s gay. She’s gay.
Gays supported her campaign.
She’ll be the 1st Gay mayor of a major US city!
Her opponent is black, black, black
Locke would have been the 2nd black mayor of Houston
And by the way, did you know she is gay?”
If you want to vote in a Houston election, you will need to be annexed into the city and pay Houston taxes.
Ok, that’s a stupid statement. San Diego has been consistently run by Republicans for I don’t know how long and Montgomery, which is majority black, elected an active Republican to replace Bobby Bright when he went to Congress.
I also seem to recall that a Republican Jew was once able to become Mayor of a city that had a large black and Muslim population, I think it was Jersey City.
You know, in my state, Alabama, it’s the people in the cities who are Republicans while all the country folks remain “good ole’ Blue Dog Democrats.” The reason there even is a Democratic Party in this state is cause of rural people. It’s us city people who keep the Republican Party alive here.
>> And whose fault is that? That’s right. The suburbs, for not letting themselves be annexed and insisting on forming their own little governments.
Why would we WANT to be annexed? Extra taxes? Worse services? Less competent government? I see no reason to attach myself to a sinking ship.
>> [...] every time we put it to a vote these people say no. We’ll eventually take them in by court order because we’ve begun providing city services to them and state law allows annexation without a vote if there is “significant burden” but it shouldn’t come to that.
So, you’ll take by force what you cannot win by vote? Government by coercion? Destruction of local government? How very conservative of you.
>> It’s what has done in every city in this country, except oddly, cities in states like Texas which have very permissive annexation laws.
AKA the freedom to choose your own government. There is a reason Texas remains among the greatest most prosperous states in this country.
>> Suburbanities should really start putting the good of their whole areas as their primary interest ...
Perhaps you should let us “suburbanites” decide for ourselves what our primary interest should be. I see no reason to worsen my own situation to better the situation for a group of people that cannot seem to find a way to competently govern themselves. Fix your own damn problem ... we’re doing fine without you.
SnakeDoc
The runoff election turnout was light (7%) because too many people could not bring themselves to vote for either stinker. That was some choice, between two Democraps — a corrupt lesbian versus a corrupt clone of Lee Brown. Regardless of who won, Houston lost. Seeing that Parker won from just over 3 1/2% of the voting population, it is likely that she won mainly because of the gay constituents. That’s apathy on the public’s part!!! From the local to the national scene, the public is electing the worst possible candidates. Where are the good ones anymore? May God spare us!
TexasRepublic, reporting from Sodom & Gomorrah on the Bayou
>”so she’s the girl in the relationship?”
Well, she’s the cities First “Something-Or-Other”. I dunno, First Ladie? First Whachamacallit? First Left Handed Cootchie-Moochie? What would be her >title<?
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