Aren't there any OUT Gay REPUBLICAN senators/members of congress?

[pepperbear]

Wouldn't this be a good time for the GOP to put a token or two on the national stage?

Just wondering.

[MadMaddie]

1. They would be run out of DC.....they are fools if they think

their party won't turn their back on them...

[ThomCat]

2. There was one congresscritter, I think from Arizona.

But I don't recall what his name one or if he's still in office.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

5. Jim Kolbe and he's retiring

Gabrielle Giffords won that seat.

[Ediacara]

3. There is one I know of who is retiring

Jim Kolbe of AZ-08. He decided not to run this year, and the Dems picked up his seat.

[Sapphocrat]

4. And he's out only because he was outed. n/t

[Glorfindel]

6. Wasn't Senator Craig from Idaho outed a week or so ago?

I seem to remember reading something about it, but then got totally distracted by all the good news of the election.

[Sapphocrat]

7. Good catch! Forgot all about him myself!

Terrible time to out anybody, in the midst of an election! LOL

[TechBear_Seattle]

11. Even so, he's been reelected several times

He was outed in the lead-up to the 96 election, after his vote in favor of the "Defense" of Marriage Act. As an out Republican, he was re-elected five times since then.

[Sapphocrat]

13. Not that I'm happy about that, of course...

...but it does improve my opinion of Arizona (which, in all my visits, has always struck me as waaaay too conservative); they're willing to keep re-electing an out gay gay (even if he is a Rethug), and they rejected the marriage ban. I'm impressed, kinda.

(Still think Kolbe is a jerk, but.)

[TechBear_Seattle]

14. As far as Repugs go, Kolbe is one of the better ones

He is an old-school conservative, and compared to the current crop of neo-cons.... His resigning from the House makes the Grand Oil Party that much worse.

[EC]

8. It should be mentioned that a closeted Republican is a

security risk...easily blackmailed...so...I call for all gay Republicans to come out of the closet or be considered a risk ...


Think that would work? It's one of the dangers they force on themselves.

On edit: I just remembered, didn't someone out Duncun Hunter, who is thinking of running for President?

[Tyo]

9. Not by choice. n/t

[keepCAblue]

10. Rep. David Dreier (R-CA)

He's not out, officially, but he might as well be. I mean, really, is there anyone who doesn't know he's gay (and living with his chief of staff, Brad Smith)?

This LA Weekly article is from 2004:

The Outing

David Dreier and his straight hypocrisy
By Doug Ireland
Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 12:00 am


The latest target of a Capitol Hill outing campaign — designed to expose closeted homosexual Republicans who oppose civil rights for gay people — is San Gabriel Valley Congressman David Dreier.

The powerful 12-term congressman — chairman of the House Rules Committee, chairman of the California Republican House delegation, co-chairman of Californians for Bush, chairman of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s transition team — is in the cross hairs of Mike Rogers and his Blogactive.com Web site, whose outing campaign has already forced one GOP congressman out of politics. Representative Ed Schrock, a reactionary from Virginia, ended his re-election campaign last month after Rogers put on his Web site an audiotape of Schrock trolling for tricks on a gay chat line.

Now, Rogers — a former development director for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force — has given Dreier the “Roy Cohn Award, in recognition of 24 years of working against gay and lesbian rights while living as a gay man yourself.” He is pummeling Dreier with almost daily revelations as a response to the GOP’s anti-gay crusade for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages.

Rogers’ campaign against Dreier got a major boost when it was taken up by Raw Story, the hot new liberal gadfly newsblog. Raw Story — which is edited out of Cambridge, Massachusetts, by 23-year-old John Byrne, who is also gay — last week published an interview with Dreier’s Democratic opponent in 1998 and 2000, Dr. Janice Nelson, who said she was aware during her 2000 campaign that Dreier was living with his chief of staff, Brad Smith. “Brad was like an invisible presence,” she said. “They really have the routine down slick.”

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[sniffa]

12. nope, but there's mehLman