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You Don't Know Barney Frank

Started by Shana A, January 08, 2009, 09:58:21 PM

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Shana A

January 08, 2009, 09:58:21 PM
You Don't Know Barney Frank
Filed by: Michael Crawford
January 8, 2009 2:30 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2009/01/you_dont_know_barney_frank.php

Jeffrey Toobin has an exhaustive profile of Rep. Barney Frank in the New Yorker. Frank is the dean of gay members of Congress and widely considered the funniest member of Congress for his quick and biting sense of humor.

While Frank has become the congressional go to gay and all issues LGBT, his status as one of three openly gay members of Congress has taken a back seat to the credibility and influence that he has built over the years specifically on financial and economic issues. As chair of the powerful House Financial Services Committee, Frank has had a key role in the federal responses to the banking and auto industry crises.

There's nothing like a gay with real political power.

In the article Frank talks about a wide range of issues including the prospects for passing pro-LGBT legislation:
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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