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Check Out Houston Mayor’s ‘Shameful’ Reaction to Criticism in Wake of Failed Transgender Ordinance

Nov. 7, 2015 6:15pm Dave Urbanski

After Houston voters defeated an LGBT nondiscrimination ordinance that critics said would allow men to access women’s bathrooms and boys to access girls showers and locker rooms, Annise Parker — the openly gay mayor of the nation’s fourth-largest city — was not happy.

“All of this about pedophiles going into women’s restrooms was an out and out and falsehood, they knew it was a falsehood, and they sold a bill of goods,”  Parker said Wednesday. “That’s all I can say. Masterfully played.”

But that isn’t all she said.

When someone called out Parker for name-calling toward those who voted against the ordinance, she only doubled down on the ad hominem attacks:

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