Jennifer Gale

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Jennifer Gale Biography

Jennifer Lauren Gale (April 12, 1960 – December 17, 2008) was an American perennial political candidate in Texas. Gale was born in Madison, Wisconsin on April 12, 1960. She was a Democrat, a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and a trans woman. Gale gained fame in her adopted hometown of Austin, Texas for repeatedly running, or attempting to run, for multiple offices including congress, governor, mayor, city council, and the school board. Gale often attended municipal hearings, forums, and meetings in Austin where she was known for presenting arguments in song. Gale planned to run for Mayor of Austin in May 2009.

Gale’s first run for elective office came during her bid for Austin mayor in 1997. She earned 420 votes (0.67%), but over time grew increasingly well known and improved her percentages with each race until she was consistently garnering a percentage in the range of 5% to 9%.

Gale received her first public endorsement from Bicycle Austin in November 2001 in her run for Austin Mayor, and Bicycle Austin also endorsed her in May 2005, and May 2006.

In 2004, Gale surprised the Austin political establishment by earning 38.7% of the vote against incumbent school board president Doyle Valdez for the At-Large Position 8 seat of the Austin Independent School District, garnering the highest percent share in her electoral bids.

In later elections, Gale received 9.3% of the vote in 2005 for Austin City Council Place 4, 6.7% of the vote in 2006 for Austin Mayor, and 0.7% of the vote in 2007 for Dallas Mayor. In her 2008 election, Gale placed fourth among six candidates for the 2008 Austin City Council Place 4 election, earning 1,951 votes or 5.8% of the total cast.

Some Austinites viewed Gale as the personification of the famous “Keep Austin Weird” campaign. Gale embraced the slogan and ran for office with the slogan of “Keep Austin, Austin,” which she modified for her 2007 run for mayor of Dallas using the slogan “Keep Dallas, Dallas.”

Jennifer Gale was found in an unresponsive state near the rear entrance of the First English Lutheran Church on Whitis Ave in Austin Texas by a staff member shortly after 7:00 am on December 17, 2008. According to an eye witness who was doing maintenance at the church, she did not respond to attempts to wake her up from where she had slept that night on a concrete ramp with little more than a sheet and some news papers. Emergency services via 911 were immediately called and first responders arrived in less than a minute from Fire Station #3 across 30th street from the church. After extended attempts to resuscitate Gale, she was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:26 AM. An autopsy later revealed that she had died from heart disease probably exacerbated by sleeping outside in near-freezing temperatures.

Gale claimed in 2008 that if elected to the Austin City Council she would get a National Football League team to move to Austin.

Gale filed her intention in late 2008 to run for Mayor of Austin in May 2009.

Gale filed her intent but ultimately did not gain ballot access to run as an independent candidate against Republican congressman Lamar S. Smith in the 2008 November general election for Texas congressional district 21.

On December 17, 2008, according to the Austin Fire Department, she was found dead outside a University of Texas area church where she regularly slept.

Gale appeared before the Austin City Council on November 20, 2008 and warned about the number of homeless that had died on the city’s streets. She also sang “I’ll be homo for Christmas” and declared that 2009 would be “Hug A Homo” year; “a perfect chance for all heterosexuals to hug a homosexual.”

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