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Appoint Openly Gay Fred Hochberg Commerce Secretary
Queers United — ... Join the facebook event, invite your friends, and plan on giving the Obama administration a friendly daily nudge to put his call of change into action. Here's to hoping that Fred Hochberg is the next Secretary of Commerce! ...

Grassroots push for gay Cabinet pick
Citizen Crain — ... , which went on to publish a gay publications in Atlanta, Houston, New Orleans, Washington, and New York. That said, I don't know enough about the position at Commerce or the other leading candidates to say for sure that Hochberg is the most qualified. Neither do those who are behind a grassroots push -- on Facebook, where else? -- to pressure Obama into selecting Hochberg. Their argument sounds more of the affirmative action variety: In more than 200 years, the United States Cabinet has never included an openly gay member. Growing national focus on GLBT civil rights has ...