Tweet Of The Day: Houston Mayor Annise Parker Responds To A Tea Party ‘Texan 4 Liberty’
Annise Parker has been mayor for nearly six years, she’s term-limited, and like Obama, isn’t holding back.
Houston Mayor Annise Parker has always been a truth teller, even when the truth is tough.
Less than 48 hours after her fellow citizens voted to support discrimination against LGBT people and over a dozen other segments of society, one anti-LGBT Twitter user decided to take his win – and his ignorance – and unleash it on the face of the HERO movement, Mayor Parker.
That proved to be unwise.
Here’s Texan 4 Liberty’s tweet:
@AnniseParker was elected as an openly gay official nine times by the same voters that voted against #HERO and she calls us #homophobes
— Texan 4 Liberty (@Tex_4_Lib) November 5, 2015
And the Mayor’s response:Â
No, actually I called you transphobes, but if the shoe fits…-A https://t.co/UwCnDZhu2H
— Annise Parker (@AnniseParker) November 5, 2015
You’ll notice the hundreds of retweets and favorites Mayor Parker’s received in just over an hour, while Texan 4 Liberty has gotten, well, one.
Well played, Governor, um, I mean, Mayor…Â
Some responses via Twitter:
@AnniseParker You…have won Twitter today. Slow claps.
— Matt Lindner (@mattlindner) November 5, 2015
@AnniseParker Moments like these, I want to scream “Shes OUR Mayor!!!” Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
— Ducks (@momduckie) November 5, 2015
@AnniseParker regardless of politics, your conviction to fight for what is right makes me proud to be a Houstonian living afar. Thank you!
— Daniel Andrew Castro (@Daniel_Andrew) November 5, 2015
@AnniseParker I love you. That is all.
— Julie Gillis (@JulieGillisTX) November 5, 2015
Stay fierce. @AnniseParker
— J. Barrós (@JBarros90) November 5, 2015
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