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• Houstonian Corner (V11-I52)

  
  Muslim Media Network — Authority: 139
  Parker & Green Win in Low Turn-Out Elections Only 17% of the registered voters, i.e. 155,312 voted, in a population of over 2 million, in the City of Houston Mayoral Run-Off Elections, to elect the termed-out City Controller Annise D. Parker, as the 61st Mayor of the Third Largest Metropolis of USA. Her ...
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• Runoff precinct analysis, Mayor’s race

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 147
  All right, I now have a copy of a draft canvass report from Saturday’s election, courtesy of the Harris County Clerk’s office. As before, I will be going through it to see what I can learn from it. First up is a report on the Mayor’s race broken down by City Council districts. For comparison, here was the same ...
  1 week ago

• Houston’s Lesbian Mayor, Annise Parker, Explains Her Stunning Victory

  
  The Satirical Political Report — Authority: 480
  “TO DEMONSTRATE MY TEXAS ROOTS, I CAMPAIGNED ON THE MOTTO THAT I’M A REAL ‘BUSH ,’ AND RODE A COW INSTEAD OF A BULL.  NOW, IF I WAS ONLY VESTED WITH THE POWER AS  MAYOR TO PRESIDE OVER MY OWN WEDDING .”
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• Still more on Parker’s win

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 147
  Hereare a couple of photo slide shows from the Annise Parker victory party on Saturday, from TPM and Hair Balls , the latter of which has some pix from the Gene Locke event as well. And BOR has a recording of a voice mail message President Obama left for Parker to congratulate her on her win. There’s a mighty ...
  2 weeks ago

• Annise Parker elected first out gay mayor of Houston

  
  PinkNews.co.uk — Authority: 692
  Annise Parker, an out lesbian, has been elected mayor of Houston, Texas. The vote makes the city the largest in the US to elect an openly gay mayor. Parker won against city attorney Gene Locke by 53.6 per cent of the vote.
  2 weeks ago

• Houston elects first openly gay mayor: Annise Parker

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 149
  December 13, 2009Who knew?Texas of all states – a state where gay marriage is against the law and Houston voters rejected a referendum to offer benefits to same-sex partners of city.Houston has elected its second female and first openly gay mayor: ANNISE D PARKERShe beat former city attorney GENE LOCKE 53.6% vs ...
  2 weeks ago

• Houston biggest US city to elect openly gay mayor

  
  TexasFred — Authority: 518
  Houston biggest US city to elect openly gay mayor HOUSTON (AP) – Houston became the largest U.S. city to elect an openly gay mayor, with voters handing a solid victory to City Controller Annise Parker after a hotly contested runoff.Several other U.S. cities, including Portland, Ore., Providence, R.I., and Cambridge, ...
  2 weeks ago

• SHE WON! SHE WON!!! ANNISE PARKER IS THE GAY MAYOR OF THE FIRST MAJOR US CITY!!!

  
  thelesbianlifestyle.com — Authority: 470
  Hot: Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!) My God, I have been up late to bring you a definitive answer to the question, “Who is the next mayor of Houston, Texas?” After casting my vote earlier today I just had a great feeling about things. In fact, it made me quite proud to be a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Congratulations to Houstons New Lesbian Mayor

  
  Velvetpark | Dyke Culture in Bloom — Authority: 143
  Annise Parker won the hotly contested run-off with Gene Locke for Mayor of Houston, Texas.
  2 weeks ago

• Superiority Texas Style: Lesbian Tops Straight Man (Gene Locke)

  
  2015Place.com — Authority: 156
  In the recent race for mayor of Houston, Texas it boiled down to a male lawyer and a lesbian. Gene Locke is the male lawyer who tried every dirty trick he could to trash Annise Parker. Gene Locke focused on the fact that Annise Parker is an open and proud lesbian. His campaign spent many thousands of dollars trying ...
  2 weeks ago

• Parker elected Houston mayor

  
  Burkablog — Authority: 468
  Annise Parker won the runoff with 53.60% of the vote to Gene Locke’s 46.40%, amounting to an 11,000 vote margin. She grabbed the lead with the early vote and kept it to the end. A late poll supposedly showed Parker 12 points ahead, so the anti-gay campaign by Hotze may have made the race closer. [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Mayor-Elect Annise Parker

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 794
  Great news from Houston: Annise Danette Parker was elected mayor of Houston on Saturday, winning her seventh consecutive city election and becoming both the first contender in a generation to defeat the hand-picked candidate of Houstons business establishment and the first openly gay person to lead a major U.S. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Annise Parker Becomes Houstons First Big Gay to Take the Mayors Seat

  
  Queerty — Authority: 692
  So that was sort of fun. After all the anti-gay mailer campaigns tied to opponent Gene Locke and the typical faith-based fearmongering , Annise Parker still triumphed (with 53.6 percent of the vote, compared to Lockes 46.4) to become Houstons first openly gay mayor, becoming the leader of Americas fourth-largest ...
  2 weeks ago

• Another good for her moment..

  
  conversations with an unapologetic black liberal — Authority: 115
  The city of Houston, Texas will now be led by an openly gay woman Annise Parker. Parker, who has served as the city’s controller for the past six years, defeated Gene Locke a former city attorney in Saturday’s run off election for mayor. I’m so tempted to say it..oh what the hell..You go girl! lol ...
  2 weeks ago

• Initial thoughts on the runoffs

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 147
  I’ll go through them one race at a time, with the unofficial vote totals minus Montgomery County for each. Once I have precinct results, I’ll go through those and do a more detailed analysis. Mayor Annise Parker – 81,971, 52.78% Gene Locke – 73,331, 47.22% This was perhaps a bit closer than one might have ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gay Takeover Of Houston Underway—Let’s Have Both Social And Economic Justice In Our City

  
  Texas Liberal — Authority: 573
  The openly gay Annise Parker has been elected Mayor of Houston. Also, gay folks were elected to two of the five city council seats that are elected by the entire city. Some on the right had warned of a “gay takeover” of Houston if these people were to be elected. The gay takeover is here. It seems to be going ...
  2 weeks ago

• Parker beats Locke in historic win in Houston mayoral runoff

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 467
  City Controller Annise Parker has beaten former City Attorney Gene Locke in today’s runoff election to be Houston’s next mayor.According to my Twitter feed, the Chronicle called the race (via tweet, at least) around 10 p.m. tonight, saying Parker had an unbeatable lead with 88 percent of precincts reporting. As I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Houston Mayoral Race Goes Nuclear Negative In Final Days

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 794
  It could be argued that the Democrat vs. Democrat mayoral runoff in Houston was always going to be negative, and was likely to revolve around identity politics. This seemed a given, since one of the leading candidates (City Controller Annise Parker) was trying to become the highest-ranking homosexual civic official in ...
  2 weeks ago

• DR. STEVEN HOTZE WANTS TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT!

  
  ISIAH CAREY'S 'INSITE' — Authority: 139
  HES SAYS HES TAKING A STAND AGAINST THE AGENDA AND ALL THE OUT OF TOWN POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS! The Insite received a call just before 10 this morning. It was Houston Conservative Republican Dr. Ste v en Hotze. We chatted for about 15 minutes on the phone. He wanted the Insite to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mayoral miscellania

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 147
  A few links of interest about the Mayor’s race. Because I know you haven’t read enough about it already. Nancy is ready for all the third-party attacks in the race to stop. Here’s an interview with Annise Parker at Open Left . Thanks to BOR for the tip. Signs, signs, everywhere there’s Gene Locke ...
  2 weeks ago

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