Houston Chooses Lesbian Fiscal Conservative for Mayor

I guess there's a first for everything:

The city of Houston, Texas appears to have elected its first gay mayor.

The new mayor is Annise Parker, currently the 53-year-old city controller.

In a light turnout and a relatively close runoff, she defeated local attorney Gene Locke with about 53% of the vote with not quite all ballots in.

Parker becomes the second woman to become mayor of Houston and the first lesbian to head a major American city. Houston is the fourth largest U.S. city.

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.

Locke sought to distance himself from a last-minute anti-gay campaign that did not work.

Fiscal conservative beats liberal every time, and I don't care what the sexual orientation is.