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Gary Cloutier's short mayoral career has come to an end. The California-based homo-politico "won" Vallejo, California's election last month. Another look at the ballots, however, reveals that Cloutier did not, in fact, win.

Two days after Gary Cloutier was sworn in as the city's chief, a recount of ballots cast in the Nov. 6 mayoral election showed that he lost by a mere three votes.

The city's new mayor is former Solano County Supervisor Osby Davis, according to results posted Thursday by the county elections department.

Both candidates were tied on election day, but elections officials declared Cloutier, 45, the winner after tallying all absentee ballots.

Davis, 62, asked for a recount, and the results showed that he finished with 5,718 votes to Cloutier's 5,715.

Cloutier would have been Vallejo's first gay mayor. Davis is the town's first black mayor. At least there's a first something, right?

The good people of Vallejo, California finally have a mayor. After a painstakingly long recount, election officials have unofficially crowned homo-politico Gary Cloutier the town's new leader. We're sure Cloutier won't use his new position to weasel out of this weekend's public intoxication arrest, for which he's since apologized:

Two hours after Vallejo Councilman Gary Cloutier issued an apology today for his weekend public intoxication arrest in Palm Springs, election officials declared him the "unofficial" winner in the city's tight mayoral race.

At a morning press conference before more than 100 people at City Hall in downtown Vallejo, Cloutier delivered a short statement that he was sorry for being drunk in public, calling it a "foolish mistake" and stressing he takes the issue seriously.
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Meanwhile, county election officials said they finished counting remaining votes in the Vallejo's mayoral race, and Cloutier won by four votes over former county supervisor Osby Davis.

The votes have yet to receive final authorization, but when they do there's totally a rager at Cloutier's crib.

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