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.
In the runoff election, Oakley lost to Tom Leppert
by a margin of 58% to 42%.
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
. 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.
In the runoff election, Oakley lost to Tom Leppert
Tom Leppert
Tom Leppert is an American politician who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas from 2007 to 2011, and who worked as CEO of the Turner Corporation...
by a margin of 58% to 42%.