McCain Chief of Staff Outed?

[varun]

http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid62106.asp

Republican presidential candidate John McCain's chief of staff was outed Monday after radio host Michelangelo Signorile quoted additional sources to confirm the long-blogged-about rumors. Mark Buse, 44, previously served as a lobbyist for several large corporations including AT&T and ExxonMobil, the only Fortune 10 company without a nondiscrimination policy covering sexual orientation, according to the Human Rights Campaign.

Signorile said on his blog that he had previously been contacted by three sources, all wishing to remain anonymous, claiming Buse is gay. The radio host says he was then contacted by 46-year-old Brian Davis, who claims to have had a past intimate relationship with the McCain staffer.

Davis claims he first met Buse at a Phoenix bar called Connections in 1986, around the same time Buse started work as a McCain intern during the presidential hopeful's tenure in the House of Representatives. Davis said Buse asked him to move to Washington, D.C., with him after a long-distance courtship taking place over several months. A year after moving to Washington, Buse left Davis for his current partner....

Also, read:

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2008/09/outed-mccain-chief-of-staff-mark-buse.html

[Roland99]

1. Who cares if he's gay? Focus on the lobbyist aspect.

[Ian David]

5. Buse was a lobbyist for ExxonMobil

Buse was a lobbyist for ExxonMobil, the only Fortune 10 company without nondiscrimination policy for sexual orientation.

[Roland99]

8. much bigger fish to worry about right now. this isn't even minor leagues.

[Virginia Dare]

2. Ho-hum...

just proves that you have to be really stupid and self-loathing to work for McCain.

[But....]

7. No...

just have to put money before anything or anyone else in your life:puke:

[Ian David]

12. ...

"Fuck you guys, what do YOU know? Paul von Hindenburg would have raised our taxes!"

[Ian David]

3. Come out, come out, where ever you are!

[Richardo]

4. He's a oil and communications lobbyist - that's the story

His orientation is moot.

[11 Bravo]

6. Closeted self-hating Republicans are hardly an endangered species.

[Ian David]

9. Consider: 33% of gay people voted for Bush in 2004, 14% of Jews, and 2% or African-Americans.

That's if I remember correctly.

[Yavin4]

10. Does McCain Have Any Non-Lobbyist Working for Him?

Geesh.

[Ian David]

11. That would be Cindy. She's in charge of recipes and pills. n/t

[Yavin4]

13. The Beer Heiress Lobbies Against Mothers Against Drunk Driving

Nope. She's a lobbyist as well.

[WarbirdForObama]

14. Who cares?

I don't care what these assholes do with their sex lives.

Hell, McSlime has been gobbling the Pretzeldential weiner for 8 years, what the hell do I care what his Chief of Staffs is messing with?

[WarbirdForObama]

15. See

[Vanje]

16. Sarah Palin can always "Pray away the Gay"

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1150170,gay090708.article



But can she "Pray away the Corrupt Oil Lobbyist"?