Mayor Annise Parker has tweeted her delight and surprise at President Barack Obama‘s announcement that he supports gay marriage.

“Wow! I was wrong. Call from White House. The President has stepped up and stated his support for recognizing relationships…like mine!” Parker said via Twitter just after 3 p.m. Her spokeswoman, Janice Evans, said via email that further comment from the mayor today was “doubtful.”

The call came from Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to the president, according to mayor’s spokeswoman Janice Evans.

In March, when asked if she expected Obama to endorse same-sex marriage before the November elections, she told a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender journalists and bloggers, “I would be shocked to see it.”

At the same event in Houston, sponsored by the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the gay news Web site edgeonthenet.com quoted her as saying:

What I’m told as a candidate is that you stay on message, you figure out what the American people want to know about and you stay on that message and you stay on that message until you’re sick of talking about that message.

She continued, “I would expect that his advisors tell him he doesn’t need to go down that path.”

In an interview on SiriusXM radio in February, Parker said that on the issue of marriage equality Obama “needs to evolve a little bit faster and is not clearly where I think he ought to be.”