Mary Cheney

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Mary Cheney, 2005

Mary Claire Cheney (born March 14, 1969 ) is the daughter of former US Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne .

Career

After her undergraduate studies at Colorado College in Colorado Springs , which she finished in 1991, she earned a further degree in business administration from the University of Denver in 2002 . In 1993 she became one of the first employees of the Colorado Rockies baseball team , in the advertising department. From there she moved to the brewing company Coors Brewing Company to lead a target group campaign for gays and lesbians , as the company was boycotted by this market segment at the time . She lives in Great Falls with her wife, Heather Poe, a former park ranger and UPS manager . In May 2007, Mary Cheney gave birth to a son; a daughter in November 2009.

In July 2003, she became director of the vice presidential campaign for the Bush- Cheney election campaign. Her sister Liz was a US State Secretary of State.

homosexuality

Cheney's homosexuality has been the target of increasing public attention, especially since her father was elected, both because of her political engagement and because of the growing debate about same-sex marriage . In 2000, the Bush-Cheney campaign team talked about Elizabeth Cheney's marriage and children, but treated her sister Mary's personal life as taboo. Nonetheless, some observers suggested that since Cheney's lesbian identity was publicly known, she promoted the image of Republicans as “compassionate conservatives”.

In January 2001, during the inauguration of President Bush and her father, Cheney and her wife attended. In 2002 she became a member of the gay- friendly Republican Unity Coalition , saying that sexual orientation "should not be an issue for the Republican Party" with the aim of equality for all gay and lesbian Americans . However, she resigned from the RUC board the following year, and in July 2003 became Vice-President of the Bush-Cheney Campaign Team in 2004.

In 2004, Cheney's homosexuality again came into the focus of public attention when the Bush administration supported a constitutional amendment that would limit marriage to heterosexual couples. In the US presidential campaign debates, both Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and vice-presidential candidate John Edwards had mentioned being lesbians when they were asked about homosexuality. At the end of the debate, when the candidates' families came on stage, Mary Cheney and her partner also took a seat there. In the third and final debate, the moderator asked, “Do you think homosexuality is a free will?” John Kerry replied, “If you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you she was just live what she is, to be who she was born. ”This provoked an angry response from both Lynne Cheney and Dick Cheney. "You just saw a man who would say anything and do anything to get elected," Vice President Cheney said at a campaign appearance in Florida the next day. John Edwards' wife, Elizabeth Edwards , suggested that the Cheneys would be "ashamed" of their daughter.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Cloud, Why Nothing About Mary? , CNN report, August 1, 2000
  2. ↑ Mark Miller and Debra Rosenberg, Something About Mary. Gay-marriage proponents target the veep's daughter , Newsweek / MSNBC , February 23, 2004 (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Cheney, Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cheney, Mary Claire (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American daughter of US Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne Cheney
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1969