Bush-Cheney campaign pressured papers to keep campaign manager’s sexuality secret

[RamboLiberal]

Two New York newspapers received calls from the Bush-Cheney campaign during the Republican National Convention urging them not to run a story suggesting that the campaign manager and public face of the campaign was gay, RAW STORY has learned.

Bush-Cheney campaign manager Ken Mehlman, who is now in the running to be chairman of the Republican Party, has repeatedly refused to answer questions about his sexuality in both public and private settings.

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Two of the sources told blogACTIVE, that they had been pressured by the Republican Party to remain silent. The site adds that two New York City newspapers "were called by press folks at the Bush campaign attempting to kill the Mehlman story." So as to protect the reporters involved, this site cannot post the papers' names online.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/0825/flashback-bushcheney-campaign-pressured-papers-reporting-mehlmans-sexuality/

Normally I would say it was Mehlman's business - except for the fact that the damn Bush-Cheney & Repukes were using Gay marriage as a wedge issue and promoting states to have referendums on the ballot so their base would be more inclined to be fired up & vote.

[EC]

1. They didn't do a very good job..

most everyone knew...

[zipplewrath]

2. Wanna bet?

Within certain communitties sure, but I'd bet the general public didn't even know who he was, never might that he was gay.

[KansDem]

3. "It's the hypocrisy, stupid!"

Don't want the sheeple to know the GOP attack on gay marriage was being conducted by a gay campaign manager...

[gratuitous]

4. Well, heck

Just because Mehlman was running a campaign that caused some gay people to kill themselves or fomented bigotry that got some gay people beat up, or raped, or killed, should he really be excoriated for coming out now? After all, he's had a pretty tough time of things, what with running the Bush/Cheney re-election campaign, getting a sinecure with defense contractor KKR. Do any of you have any appreciation at all for how difficult it is to hire an accountant to shelter your income to avoid taxes from lucrative gigs like that? I should say not! Let us all please allow Mr. Mehlman the respect and dignity of living his life in peace, a life built on the bones and blood of other human beings, but his life nevertheless.

[Ernesto]

5. A GAY republican? Now that is NEWS!

A republican hypocrite?..... Not so much.