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Bush Campaign Chief Ken Mehlman is Gay
Ken Mehlman, President Bush’s campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he is gay.
Mehlman arrived at this conclusion about his identity fairly recently, he said in an interview. He agreed to answer a reporter’s questions, he said, because, now in private life, he wants to become an advocate for gay marriage and anticipated that questions would arise about his participation in a late-September fundraiser for the American Foundation for Equal Rights AFER, the group that supported the legal challenge to Californias ballot initiative against gay marriage, Proposition 8.
“It’s taken me 43 years to get comfortable with this part of my life,” said Mehlman, now an executive vice-president with the New York City-based private equity firm, KKR. “Everybody has their own path to travel, their own journey, and for me, over the past few months, I’ve told my family, friends, former colleagues, and current colleagues, and they’ve been wonderful and supportive. The process has been something thats made me a happier and better person. Its something I wish I had done years ago.”
via Bush Campaign Chief and Former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman: Im Gay – Politics – The Atlantic.
Read the rest, and good for him. I’m still puzzled, though.
Why couldn’t he have supported gay rights publicly when he was closeted? I mean, there are a couple straight people who support equality. One or two, like.
And Ken, we wish you’d done it years ago too.
Check out Michael Rogers’ post on the matter, and what forced the outing interview to go to press early.
