Prominent Republican Consultant Marries Same Sex Partner

One has to wonder if Adam Nagourney of the NY Times would have felt compelled to write this piece had the consultant been a Democrat. Apparently Mr. Finkelstein wasn't exactly in the closet and chose a private civil ceremony. Somehow the story doesn't read like the usual Times wedding announcement.

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WASHINGTON, April 8 - Arthur J. Finkelstein, a prominent Republican consultant who has directed a series of hard-edged political campaigns to elect conservatives in the United States and Israel over the last 25 years, said Friday that he had married his male partner in a civil ceremony at his home in Massachusetts.

Mr. Finkelstein, 59, who has made a practice of defeating Democrats by trying to demonize them as liberal, said in a brief interview that he had married his partner of 40 years to ensure that the couple had the same benefits available to married heterosexual couples.

He declined further comment on the wedding, which was in December.

Well, we know timeliness wasn't driving the story. I wonder what was?

None of Mr. Finkelstein's better-known political clients, among them Gov. George E. Pataki of New York and former Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato of New York, attended, that person said.

I see, well thanks for telling us who didn't attend. I've always wanted to read about who wasn't at a wedding. For some reason they usually stop with who actually did attend.

Mr. Finkelstein has frequently come under criticism by gay rights groups for representing politicians who have been ardent foes of gay rights. He helped create the template for a line of attack he repeatedly invoked against Democrats, including Mario M. Cuomo of New York, describing them as liberal.

Details of Mr. Finkelstein's relationship have appeared in regular news accounts over the years, as they did in the Boston Magazine article, which reported that Mr. Finkelstein lived with his partner and two children in Ipswich, Mass. "But this is the same man who was the architect of Jesse Helms's political rise."

Thanks for enlightening us, Adam ... but you forgot to mention what the bride was wearing? Or wasn't the wedding what writing this story was all about?

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Comments

[jeff]

So instead of celebrating diversity, he gets damned as a hypocrite. Typical! Just read that Dianne Feinstein was voted the SF Pride Parade's equivalent of the Razzie for her shocking statement that gay marriage was "too much, too soon, too fast". Apparently a majority of Americans agree with her, but no one ever said the gay ghetto was in touch with reality. I fucking hate those queens.