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Prominent Republican Political Leaders Sign Brief in Favor of Gay Marriage

Prominent Republican Political Leaders Sign Brief in Favor of Gay Marriage

Last updated on: December 29, 2014 at 8:16 pm by Rebecca Hamilton

Prominent Republican Political Leaders Sign Brief in Favor of Gay Marriage 2014-12-29T20:16:36-07:00 Rebecca Hamilton

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According to the American Foundation for Equal Rights, the gay rights organization that brought the original lawsuit seeking the overturn of California’s Proposition 8, 131 prominent Republicans have signed an amicus curiae brief supporting gay marriage.

This brief seeks to influence the United States Supreme Court in its upcoming rulings on the legal standing of marriage in the United States. The signers are mostly prominent Republicans who have held or currently hold powerful government positions either as elected officials or as part of Republican presidential administrations. A number of these people have had lifelong careers bouncing from one prominent position to another in the service of the Republican Party. Based on that, I would assume that they are total, absolute party hacks. I also believe that when they sign a petition like this, it indicates something real is happening inside the party deep-thinking processes.

To put it bluntly, if you are a so-called “values” voter who has been supporting the Republican party because of their “moral” positions, you have been sold out. This doesn’t surprise me at all. It is nothing more than a public manifestation of what I have seen up close and personal as an elected official. Political parties are about power. All they care about is getting power and keeping power. Everything else they say is a lie.

Gay marriage advocates have stated that they are hopeful that this brief, with its prominent Republican signers, will influence the conservative members of the Supreme Court in their deliberations on the issue of gay marriage.

Whether or not that happens remains to be seen. But one thing is certain: People of faith can no longer vote for either party and feel that they are voting in line with their beliefs.

Here is the list of the brief’s signers so far:

Republican Party Officials, Fundraisers

Kenneth B. Mehlman, Chairman, Republican National Committee, 2005-2007

Alex Castellanos, Republican Media Advisor

Tyler Deaton, Secretary, New Hampshire Young Republicans, 2011-Present

Jeff Cook-McCormac, Senior Advisor, American Unity PAC

Ken Spain, Communications Director, National Republican Congressional Committee, 2009-2010

Sally A. Vastola, Executive Director, National Republican Congressional Committee, 2003-2006

Jacob P. Wagner, Chairman, New Hampshire Federation of College Republicans, 2012-Present

Cyrus Krohn, eCampaign Director, Republican National Committee, 2007-2009

Mark McKinnon, Republican Media Advisor

Bush (W) Administration Officials

Tim Adams, Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, 2005-2007

John B. Bellinger III, Legal Adviser to the Department of State, 2005-2009

William A. Burck, Deputy Staff Secretary, Special Counsel, and Deputy Counsel to the President, 2005-2009

Mary Cheney, Director of Vice Presidential Operations, Bush-Cheney 2004, 2003-2004

Thomas J. Christensen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 2006-2008

James B. Comey, U.S. Deputy Attorney General, 2003-2005

R. Clarke Cooper, U.S. Alternative Representative, United Nations Security Council, 2007-2009

Julie Cram, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison, 2007-2009

Michele Davis, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and Director of Policy Planning, Department of the Treasury, 2006-2009

Alicia Davis Downs, Associate Political Director, White House, 2001-2003

Christian J. Edwards, Special Assistant to the President and Director of Press Advance, 2005-2007

Lew Eisenberg, Finance Chairman, Republican National Committee, 2002-2004

Mark J. Ellis, State Chairman, Maine Republican Party, 2005-2006 and 2007-2009

Charles Freeman, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for China Affairs, 2002-2005

David Frum, Author and Special Assistant to the President, 2001-2002

Reed Galen, Director of Scheduling and Advance, Bush-Cheney 2004, 2003-2004

Benjamin Ginsberg, National Counsel, Bush-Cheney 2000 and 2004

Josh Ginsberg, National Field Director, Romney for President, 2007-2008

Juleanna Glover, Press Secretary to the Vice President, 2001-2002

Adrian Gray, Director of Strategy, Republican National Committee, 2005-2007

Richard Grenell, Spokesman, U.S. Ambassadors to the United Nations, 2001-2008

Israel Hernandez, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, 2005-2009

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Director, Congressional Budget Office, 2003-2005

Margaret Hoover, Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, 2005-2006

Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce, 2005-2009

Stephen Hadley, Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor, 2005-2009

David A. Javdan, General Counsel, U.S. Small Business Administration, 2002-2006

Reuben Jeffery, Undersecretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs, 2007-2009

Greg Jenkins, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Presidential Advance, 2003-2004

Coddy Johnson, National Field Director, Bush-Cheney 2004, 2003-2004

Neel Kashkari, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 2008-2009

Theodore W. Kassinger, Deputy Secretary of Commerce, 2004-2005

Jeffrey Kupfer, Chief of Staff and Acting Deputy Secretary, Department of Energy, 2006-2009

Catherine Martin, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Communications Director for Policy and Planning, 2005-2007

Kevin Martin, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission, 2005-2009

David McCormick, Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, 2007-2009

Bruce P. Mehlman, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, 2001-2003

Michael Napolitano, White House Office of Political Affairs, 2001-2003

Susan Neely, Special Assistant to the President, 2001-2002

Noam Neusner, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Speechwriting, 2002-2005

Meghan O’Sullivan, Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, 2005-2007

Richard Painter, Associate Counsel to the President, 2005-2007

Michael Powell, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission, 2001-2005

Nancy Pfotenhauer, Regulatory Advisor, Romney for President, 2008, and Economist, Presidential Transition Team, 1988

Gregg Pitts, Director, White House Travel Office, 2006-2009

J. Stanley Pottinger, Assistant U.S. Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, 1973-1977

Luis Reyes, Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Assistant to the President, 2006-2009

Tom Ridge, Governor of Pennsylvania, 1995-2001, and Secretary of Homeland Security, 2003-2005

Mark A. Robbins, General Counsel, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, 2001-2006

Kelley Robertson, Chief of Staff, Republican National Committee, 2005-2007

Brian Roehrkasse, Director of Public Affairs, Department of Justice, 2007-2009

Harvey S. Rosen, Chairman and Member, Council of Economic Advisers, 2003-2005

Lee Rudofsky, Deputy General Counsel, Romney for President, 2012

Patrick Ruffini, eCampaign Director, Republican National Committee, 2005-2007

Corry Schiermeyer, Director for Global Communications, National Security Council, 2005-2007

Steve Schmidt, Deputy Assistant to the President and Counselor to the Vice President, 2004-2006, and Senior Advisor, John McCain for President, 2008

Faryar Shirzad, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs, 2004-2006

Robert Steel, Undersecretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance, 2006-2008

Mark Wallace, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Representative for UN Management and Reform, 2006-2008

Nicolle Wallace, Assistant to the President and White House Communications Director, 2005-2008

Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense, 2001-2005, and President of the World Bank Group, 2005-2007

Bush (George) Administration Officials

Jim Cicconi, Assistant to the President and Deputy to the Chief of Staff, 1989-1990

Kenneth M. Duberstein, White House Chief of Staff and Assistant to the President, 1981-1984 and 1987-1989

Jonathan Kislak, Deputy Undersecretary of Agriculture for Small Community and Rural Development, 1989-1991

Ronald Reagan Administration Officials

David Stockman, Director, Office of Management and Budget, 1981-1985

Elizabeth Noyer Feld, Public Affairs Specialist, White House Office of Management and Budget, 1984-1987

Robert Kabel, Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, 1982-1985

Romney Presidential Campaign Staff

Katie Biber, General Counsel, Romney for President, 2007-2008 and 2011-2012

David Kochel, Senior Iowa Advisor, Mitt Romney for President, 2007-2008 and 2011-2012

Alex Lundry, Director of Data Science, Romney for President, 2012

Beth Myers, Romney for President Campaign Manager, 2007-2008 and Senior Advisor, 2011-2012

John McCain Presidential Campaign

Ana Navarro, National Hispanic Co-Chair, John McCain for President, 2008

Jill Hazelbaker, Communications Director, John McCain for President, 2007-2008

Republican Elected Officials

Susan Molinari, Member of Congress, 1990-1997

Connie Morella, Member of Congress, 1987-2003, and U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2003-2007Charles Bass, Member of Congress, 1995-2007 and 2011-2013

Mary Bono Mack, Member of Congress, 1998-2013

Paul Cellucci, Governor of Massachusetts, 1997-2001, and Ambassador to Canada, 2001-2005

B.J. Nikkel, Colorado State Representative and Majority Whip, 2009-2012, and District Director for Marilyn Musgrave, Member of Congress, 2002-2006

Ruth Ann Petroff, Wyoming State Representative, 2011-Present

Larry Pressler, U.S. Senator from South Dakota, 1979-1997, and Member of Congress, 1975-1979

Deborah Pryce, Member of Congress, 1993-2009

John Reagan, New Hampshire State Senator, 2012-Present

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Member of Congress, 1989-Present

Adam Schroadter, New Hampshire State Representative, 2010-Present

Christopher Shays, Member of Congress, 1987-2009

Nancy Stiles, New Hampshire State Senator, 2010-Present

Jane Swift, Governor of Massachusetts, 2001-2003

Richard Tisei, Massachusetts State Senator 1991-2011, and Senate Minority Leader 2007-2011

William F. Weld, Governor of Massachusetts, 1991-1997, and Assistant U.S. Attorney General, Criminal Division, 1986-1988

Christine Todd Whitman, Governor of New Jersey, 1994-2001, and Administrator of the EPA, 2001-2003

Janet Duprey, New York State Assemblywoman, 2007-Present

Dan Zwonitzer, Wyoming State Representative, 2005-present

Mark Grisanti, New York State Senator, 2011-Present

Patrick Guerriero, Mayor of Melrose, Massachusetts, and Member of Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1993-2001

Richard L. Hanna, Member of Congress, 2011-Present

Michael Huffington, Member of Congress, 1993-1995

Jon Huntsman, Governor of Utah, 2005-2009, and Ambassador to China, 2009-2011

Gary Johnson, Governor of New Mexico, 1995-2003, and Libertarian Party Nominee for President, 2012

Nancy L. Johnson, Member of Congress, 1983-2007

James Kolbe, Member of Congress, 1985-2007

Thomas A. Little, Vermont State Representative, 1992-2002 and Chairman of the Vermont House Judiciary Committee, 1999-2002

Prominent Republican Business Associates

Cliff S. Asness, Businessman, Philanthropist, and Author

David D. Aufhauser, General Counsel, Department of the Treasury, 2001-2003

David C. Chavern, Business Association Executive

Meg Whitman, Republican Nominee for Governor of California, 2010

Daniel S. Loeb, Businessman and Philanthropist

Republican Think-Tankers, Cultural Supports, Media Stars

S.E. Cupp, Author and Political Commentator

Robert Wickers, Republican Political Consultant

Clint Eastwood, Producer, Director, Actor, and Mayor of Carmel, California, 1986-1988

Mark Gerson, Chairman, Gerson Lehrman Group and Author of The Neoconservative Vision: From the Cold War to the Culture Wars and In the Classroom: Dispatches from an Inner-City School that Works

N. Greg Mankiw, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers, 2003-2005

Michael E. Murphy, Republican Political Consultant

Newt Gingrich (Speaker of the House) Staffers

Richard Galen, Communications Director, Speaker’s Political Office, 1996-1997

Ed Kutler, Assistant to the Speaker of the House, 1995-1997

Republican Congressional Staff

John Goodwin, Chief of Staff to Raul Labrador, Member of Congress, 2011-2013

Kathryn Lehman, Chief of Staff, House Republican Conference, 2003-2005

Aaron McLear, Press Secretary to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2007-2011

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