Anisse Parker

In what started out as a horse race, but ever slowly and steadily during the night, Houston City Controller, Annise Parker pulled out a win over her opponent Gene Locke, a former city hall attorney.

Parker becomes the first “out” mayor elected to the city hall of a major metropolitan city in the United States. Parker who never ran on the “gay card” instead ran a clean campaign based on her experience and what she hopes to do for the city and its citizens as mayor of Houston.

With 100% of the votes tallied at the time of this writing, Parker won 52.8% to 47.2% over Locke. Just after 10 PM (CT) Locke stood before his loyal supporters, thanked them, and gave his concession speech in which he called on all citizens of Houston for unity and to support the new mayor of Houston, the 50th mayor of that city.

Parker has been winning elections for 12 years, so while many across the United States have made an issue of Parker being “out”, it seems not to have been a problem up to and including this past November general election, where because of a close vote count, caused Saturday’s runoff election.

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