Well done, 'FM', that's grown-up voting that is!
Perhaps you could teach Steve how to do it.
She did, in fact, win handily as did all the candidates I voted for. There will be a runoff for mayor since no candidate got greater than 50% of the vote. Now we will just have to see how she does.
Most of my candidates made it into runoffs. For Houston's mayor, we sent the old white guy home, preferring a runoff between a lesbian and an African American community activist. (David, what happened? did you choke on your coffee?)
I voted for Annise Parker, the lesbian. That's all ABC News would say about her, and they said it over and over. And over. But she is our current city controller, and has done the job effectively and aggressively, providing the necessary counterbalance and fiscal discipline in the presence of a good but rather expansive mayor. (Ours is a strong-mayor form of city government.) All of the major mayoral candidates this time, including the old white guy (a councilmember, a city planner by training and experience), had much to recommend them, and for many of us it was a difficult choice. Houston is fortunate: our problems are quite beyond solution, but damn, we have some fine people working on them.
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