Mayor of houston tx gay

Houston Mayor Annise Parker is wrapping up her third and final two-year term. In fact, Houston is the largest city in America to elect an openly gay mayor. There are many questions about what Annise Parker plans to do next, and about the challenges a city like Houston faces, as it continues to grow faster than any other city in the U.

We have a particular problem right now, we have 30 years of deferred maintenance coming home to roost. And we have a year into the future program to fix it. And the way this has happened in Houston is absolutely organic. It really is a strength here. We mesh well, we integrate well, we cross-pollinate, as it were, among the various cultures of Houston.

Part of that is that the police department looks a lot like the population it polices. We protect them constitutionally, and people have to have an opportunity to express their unhappiness. I could slap a new name on that statue.

Houston Mayor Parker marries longtime gay partner

Do you want me to go melt it down? We were part of the South, this was a Confederate state. And every politician has what I would call a brand, and my brand borders on brutal honesty. There may be some battles left to fight, but we know the direction this country is moving in — certainly the direction of the younger generations here in America.

I hope I have the opportunity to continue to serve, but it would have to be the right race. I like to do things. That I never walked away from a problem, and I never looked for quick and easy solutions. Did the same thing with our water-sewer system. Tackled homelessness. NHPR is nonprofit and independent.

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