Ed Oakley

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Ed Oakley is a municipal politician from Dallas, Texas. He served on the city council from 2001 to 2007, and was a candidate for Mayor of Dallas in the runoff election held on June 16, 2007. If he had won, he would have been the first openly gay mayor of a top ten U.S. city.^[1]

In the runoff election, Oakley lost to Tom Leppert by a margin of 58% to 42%.^[2]

See also[]

• LGBT rights in Texas

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