New York Times article on Annise Parker & mayoral race (Houston: to buy, university)

[houstoner]

Nice write-up in the NYT yesterday about how Annise Parker may become the first openly gay woman mayor of a major US city.

Tight Race for Mayor of Houston - NYTimes.com

[Spade]

I can't access it. I have to be a member.

[houstoner]

Try Bugmenot.com - login with these free web passwords to bypass compulsory registration

[tstone]

So does being openly gay make her the best candidate for leader of this city? I really don't care how these people look, how they were pre-wired, or any other superficial nonsense... let's hear the issues.

Dead link BTW.

Edit: I'll try that password-site.

[jfre81]

Originally Posted by tstone

So does being openly gay make her the best candidate for leader of this city?

I don't think that was the point in any case, but no. It's got to be shocking to some people up in New York that down here in Dogpatch there's even a chance that an openly gay mayor would get elected.

[houstoner]

Originally Posted by tstone

So does being openly gay make her the best candidate for leader of this city? I really don't care how these people look, how they were pre-wired, or any other superficial nonsense... let's hear the issues.

Dead link BTW.

Edit: I'll try that password-site.

No, but IF she's elected it will be an historic event.

I'll go fix that link!

[XodoX]

Thanks for the link.

Mr. Brown of trying to buy votes in the black community after he donated money to black churches and received endorsements from some of them.

lol ugh.

But dosen't look togood for her:

Recent polls suggest Mr. Brown’s heavy spending on advertising has paid off. He led the field, with Ms. Parker running a strong second, and Mr. Locke third.

That's what I don't like. Same way Bloomberg did it... People still fall for it

Despite all the attacks, no one in the race has raised questions about Ms. Parker’s sexuality, not even through proxies. Some strategists say it may become an issue in a runoff if Ms. Parker must battle Mr. Parker or Mr. Locke for conservative voters from the west side of the city.

That would be pretty sad. Not sure if someone would do that, though.


Anyway, I wish her good luck. Same to Mr. Morales,I think he's a decent guy.

[hsw]

Sad commentary on Hou or Dall if either has a mayoral slate as flakey/transgender as one would expect in commie SF or NYC

Exxon (world's most valuable co.) left Midtown Manhattan ~15yrs ago for suburban Dallas to avoid commie NYC clowns and their anti-business, pro-tax, pro-union policies

Unfortunately, much of Hou's energy industry is technically in Hou city limits, unlike Dall where much of value is HQ'd in Irving (IIRC, Exxon alone is worth about as much as all of Hou's energy cos. combined)

But would note that some major energy cos. (Transocean, etc) have already moved HQs to Geneva to avoid silly taxes and social welfare engineering costs of commie towns....far easier in an era of Net/Blkberry and when 35++% of revs of any major energy (or tech or financial) co. are derived from outside US anyway

[usc619]

Originally Posted by bostoner

Nice write-up in the NYT yesterday about how Annise Parker may become the first openly gay woman mayor of a major US city.

Tight Race for Mayor of Houston - NYTimes.com

Son of a ****** lol, where have I've been? All along I was wondering why Parker was not leading this race by a landslide, I guess that explains a lot.

I like to see Morales win out but for some strange reason he doesn't have the full backing of his own party (never mind he's the only GOP running). I'd have to say Parker is clearly the best out of the Dems.

[yoshi555]

Woot! I've met Annise Parker and worked on her campaign over summer! She's a wonderful person with even better ideals and opinions about how to make this city a better place.
Being gay is just one aspect to her unique character.
She's been a resident of Houston for a long time and is a graduate of Rice University.


Cheers for Annise!

Woot