Out of the closet & into sub-Cabinet? (BushCo nominates openly gay man)

President Bush isn't letting potential howls from the Christian right stop him from nominating an openly gay man as assistant secretary of commerce.
Just in time for Pride Week, Bush has tapped longtime aide Israel Hernandez for the post, which also carries the title of director general of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service.

The 35-year-old Republican go-getter has been a Bush acolyte since the President's 1994 campaign for governor of Texas. (Among Hernandez's duties was supplying the candidate with breath mints, prompting Dubya to dub him "Altoid Boy.")

Most recently, the graduate of Texas A&M's George H.W. Bush School of Government served as aide-de-camp to senior White House adviser Karl Rove.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/322031p-275336c.html

("Altoid Boy"? Hmmm ... shades of Monica! ... And it all begs the question: Does this guy work under Kkkarl Rove?)

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