Brian Paddick – Gay Former Cop Runs For London Mayor

Brian Paddick, a former Deputy Assistant Police Commissioner of London‘s Metropolitan Police, who left his position this past spring after a 30-year career with the force.

Paddick has been nominated by the Liberal Democrats.  Members of the party elected paddock out of three possible candidates.  London would become the largest city in the world if he wins the election.

On a similar note earlier this year, Dallas, TX came close to electing an openly gay Mayor.  The Democratic candidate, Ed Oakley, was running a dead heat with his republican counterpart Tom Leppert.  That is, until Time Magazine caught wind of the story and ran an article entitled The Lavender Heart of Texas.  After the article ran local publications in Dallas endorsed Leppert who ultimately won the election by a large margin, leaving Oakley, with just under 40 percent of the vote.  The media blamed the loss on Oakley’s campaign style.

Brian Paddick doesn’t come through without controversial skeletons in his past though.  From his softness on marijuana possession in 2000 to his own allegations of drug use by his ex lover in 2002.  Later that same year, it was announced that no formal charges would follow even though the Commissioner was suspended during the investigation.  

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