LANSING -- While Gov. Jennifer Granholm prepar for her send term, her openly gay chief of staff, John Burchett, will be packg up his bags. "I did
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- TIM SKUBICK: JENNIFER GRANHOLM CHANG HER MD ON GAY MARRIAGE
- FIRST OPENLY GAY GUBERNATORIAL CHIEF OF STAFF LLG QUS
TIM SKUBICK: JENNIFER GRANHOLM CHANG HER MD ON GAY MARRIAGE
”If nfirmed, Buttigieg, who would be the first openly gay Cabet member U. Jennifer Granholm prepar for her send term, her openly gay chief of staff, John Burchett, will be packg up his bags.
“I did what I set out to do, ” Burchett said of his 15-month tenure as the natn’s first openly gay chief of staff.
And he says his role as an openly gay man had a large impact on the state. “We appoted some of the first openly gay appote Michigan history, ” he says. The right wg knew that they uld not get anti-gay legislatn passed bee we would veto .
FIRST OPENLY GAY GUBERNATORIAL CHIEF OF STAFF LLG QUS
“The gay muny has been a substantial player at the table, ” he says. “People now know the gay muny is a player at all levels.
Introducg Granholm at the event was her chief of staff, Tarak Shah who’s gay and served durg the Obama years as chief of staff for the Department of Energy’s unr secretary science and energy. Earlier on Tuday, Buttigieg was reported as Bin’s pick for secretary of transportatn, and if he’s nfirmed by the Senate, he would bee the first-ever openly gay Cabet member to be nfirmed.