By Lisa Neff, columnist, 365gay.com
I had a “so what” moment last week.
A news release came into my Mail application, one of maybe 100 releases to arrive October 26th. The headline heralded, “Obama appoints record number of gay officials.”
I read on.
President Barack Obama has appointed more openly gay officials than any other president in U.S. history.
The number, at half-way through Obama’s term, is estimated at 150 appointments, from “agency heads and commission members to policy officials and senior staffers.” The prior record number of appointments was made by Bill Clinton over his eight years in office and estimated at 140. Note the use of “estimate,” which to me means that we don’t really know the number, making about 150 a record that needs an asterisk.
The Senate had to confirm two dozen of Obama’s openly gay appointees, including John Berry as director of the Office of Personnel Management, which oversees the nation’s 1.9 million federal workers.
“Eh, so what,” I thought.
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