Who Is Mark Segal’s Secret Source In The White House?
About half past midnight last night, Philadelphia Gay News publisher Mark Segal (pictured) sent out an email blast saying that “President Barack Obama will be signing a presidential memorandum tomorrow in the oval office to provide benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees,” attributing a “high source in the White House.” And lo and behold, open up this morning’s New York Times, and there it is! Awesome! And while it’s obvious that the NYT and multiple other stories were already in the works and about to hit the press, making it safe for anyone in the White House to then “leak” what would undoubtedly be all over the place in a matter of hours anyway, we have to wonder: Who’s Segal’s White House buddy? It could be a difficult one to pin down, but Segal’s long been a political player in Philly, and has never been afraid to wield whatever power he’s got when his nature calls. Our first guess would obviously be someone in Camp Hillary. Second guess? Bo. I mean, come on.
June 17th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
the news broke around 9:00 PM last night
also, the details aren’t as great as it sounds:
President Obama’s plan is drawing a lukewarm reaction this morning, as it becomes clear that — contrary to some early reports — the benefits can’t include access for same-sex partners to health or retirement plans.
The Defense of Marriage Act, which Obama vowed during the campaign to repeal, prohibits the federal government from extending those benefits, so today’s announcement appears likely to be limited to meaningful, but less sweeping, changes for gay and lesbian federal workers.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0609/Obama_to_extend_benefits_to_samesex_partners.html
June 17th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Yeah this shit was on CNN way early, all you had to do was turn on the tv for the high secret power source.