NYT: Cheney Daughter's Political Role Disappoints Some Gay Activists

[kskiska]

Mary Cheney, the daughter and chief campaign manager of Vice President Dick Cheney, had just slipped out of the room at a Davenport, Iowa, town hall meeting last week when her father publicly acknowledged for the first time that she was openly lesbian and that he disagreed with the president's support for an amendment banning same-sex marriage.

If Ms. Cheney was gratified by his remarks about gay marriage, she has not let it show, two campaign aides said. But aides say she was clearly displeased the next day to find the cameras of the traveling press corps craning for shots of her face.

"She does not seek the limelight," said Mary Matalin, an adviser to Mr. Cheney and friend of the family. "It just goes with the beast that if you are in the public eye, it is going to happen. But she does not seek to be in the public eye."

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Gay rights advocates, on the other hand, accuse Ms. Cheney of selling out gays to aid her father's campaign.

"There is a profound sense of bewilderment bordering on betrayal," said Matt Foreman, executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Taskforce. "How is it possible that you could be working so hard for an administration that is so against your basic life, so against you and any family aspirations you might have, and against your people? I understand father-daughter ties, but it seems impossible to reconcile."
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http://nytimes.com/2004/08/30/politics/campaign/30mary.html

[burrowowl]

1. I am not

amazed.

[7th_Sephiroth]

4. well, she's dick cheneys daughter

so that genetically makes her a duche, and a prime candidate for a real bad heart attack

[Love Bug]

2. If she doesn't seek the limelight

then why doesn't she get a real job instead of her overpaid position for the shrub? Her campaigning for him makes her PART OF THE PROBLEM. I don't feel the least bit sorry for her.

[kskiska]

3. Also:

(snip)

Mr. (Alan) Simpson recalled a tense confrontation on the campaign trail when one of Mr. Bush's Christian conservative backers advised Mr. Cheney to "pray for her" and "to urge her away from her aberration."

"Dick just starred at him," Mr. Simpson recalled. "If you said that to Dick or Lynne Cheney, you will get a look that would sizzle your underwear, I tell you."

That attitude may represent a shift for Lynne Cheney. Asked in 2000 television interview about having a daughter "who has now declared that she is openly gay,'' Ms. Cheney quickly responded, "Mary has never declared such a thing."

[mitchum]

5. She's greedy, but just how many PT Cruisers does one girl need?

I also agree w/the poster above who said that if she didn't want to be in the limelight, she should get another job.
Fuck her (Easy Mary, it's just a figure of speech)

[jackieforthedems]

6. Bush Means More To Cheney

Than Cheney's own daughter. Now that's really sad.

[Erika]

7. The Cheney's Are Lost

As is their daughter Mary.
At some point in your life you have to stand up to what you believe in. The entire Cheney family can't do so.

[Shae]

8. They expected more ...

from the spawn of Satan?