Barney Frank: The First Openly Gay Cabinet Secretary?

by Michael Jones · 2009-09-08 09:09:00 UTC
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Barney Frank

Barney Frank is a lot of things to a lot of people.  He's a Congressman from Massachusetts.  The Chair of the House Financial Services Committee.  The foil of Bill O'Reilly.  And if Frank gets his own way, he might just end up being the country's first openly gay Cabinet Secretary.

Er, make that, the country's first openly gay, Jewish, left-handed Cabinet Secretary.

A new biography on Barney is hitting bookshelves this September, "Barney Frank, The Story of America’s Only Left-handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman," and in it, Frank says that he'd like to end his career by becoming a Cabinet Secretary in the Obama administration.  Specifically, Frank wants to become Secretary for Housing and Urban Development (HUD).  Why?  Because he wants to get the federal government back into the housing business, and back into the game of helping to end U.S. poverty.

Of course, current HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan might not be too pleased with that idea (at least the part about him being replaced).  Still, it is easy to picture Barney Frank in this role. So long as he promises, of course, to still give Bill O'Reilly hell.

Michael Jones is a Change.org Editor. He has worked in the field of human rights communications for a decade, most recently for Harvard Law School.
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