Good news, liberals. 53-year old Annise Parker has become only the second woman elected mayor of Houston. And to top that, she’s the first lesbian chosen to run any major American city.
Bad news, liberals. She’s a fiscal conservative.
We’ll pause briefly while liberal activists and gay rights activists recover from the sick feelings in the pits of their stomachs.
As the Los Angeles Times reports, “Parker neither proclaimed nor sought to hide her sexual orientation and ran on a platform of firm fiscal conservatism and her long experience in urban financial matters.”
Tonto: Look, Kimosabe, off in the west. Is that a wigwam Tonto see?
Lone Ranger: No, my friend, but it is a Big Tent.
Source: Los Angeles Times
