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(52,163 posts) Fri Jan 4, 2013, 12:02 AM Jan 2013

So are we ready for a LGBT cabinet member? [View all]

First the openings. Commerce, Treasury, Defense are for sure openings. Maybe AG. For Commerce there are several possibilities. The current CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, is openly gay. Mitchel Gold, who runs a very labor friendly furniture manufacturing business is also openly gay. Fred Hochberg, current head of the export import bank, is openly gay. Any of those would make great Commerce Secretaries. For Treasury, Barney Frank would be great. He is both a liberal and an expert on these matters. The question is, would he take the appointment? I think for a few years he would. Defense is tougher. Frank has great views but no experience so he is a non starter. Frankly, I can't think of anyone who we could put there who is openly gay.

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So are we ready for a LGBT cabinet member? [View all] dsc Jan 2013 OP

What kind of a question is that? donheld Jan 2013 #1

I think the OP worded it wrong Taverner Jan 2013 #19

You do know Barney Frank has resigned... arthritisR_US Jan 2013 #2

He chose not to run for Congress again dsc Jan 2013 #5

Not running for office means he has resigned arthritisR_US Jan 2013 #14

What office is Hagle running for? Bluenorthwest Jan 2013 #20

Quite true, but Hagel has been out of office for some time and has expressed interest whereas arthritisR_US Jan 2013 #26

Cabinet - not comittee Capt. Obvious Jan 2013 #24

No dsc Jan 2013 #27

So, Mr Frank is available to be Secretary of Defense JustABozoOnThisBus Jan 2013 #22

Do you actually know what the sexual preference of any Cabinet member is? brooklynite Jan 2013 #3

I know they aren't openly gay dsc Jan 2013 #6

They're not openly anything... brooklynite Jan 2013 #12

for the same reason that knowing FDR's Sec of Labor was a woman was important dsc Jan 2013 #13

Just why was such knowledge important for arthritisR_US Jan 2013 #15

not for them dsc Jan 2013 #17

Oh ok, I see what you are getting at. n/m arthritisR_US Jan 2013 #18

That last line of the OP should help some add up two and two and get why it is important... Bluenorthwest Jan 2013 #21

Acting Sec of Commerce Rebecca Blank? Honeycombe8 Jan 2013 #4

Donovan is married to a woman dsc Jan 2013 #7

If I was Obama, I would simply pick whoever I thought best for the job. Nye Bevan Jan 2013 #8

He might have binders full of gay people to choose from Capt. Obvious Jan 2013 #25

What does it take to be "openly gay" these days? Hekate Jan 2013 #9

I would think at the very least dsc Jan 2013 #10

Thanks for your take on it Hekate Jan 2013 #11

You have so much to teach me, I am learning arthritisR_US Jan 2013 #16

Should it matter? Remmah2 Jan 2013 #23

Romney had a similar reason Capt. Obvious Jan 2013 #28

The old boys network. Remmah2 Jan 2013 #29