Monday, August 3, 2009

Mary Cheney a Diva to Secret Service?

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Former vice president Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter treated her Secret Service detail like crap, according to a new tell-all book, reports the New York Post's Page Six.

In the book In the President’s Secret Service, Ronald Kessler writes that when Mary Cheney demanded the service drive her friends out to restaurants, the agent in charge refused. She allegedly had him removed from her detail.

The book also alleges that Mary was jealous of her sister, Elizabeth, because Elizabeth was shuttled around in a brand-new Suburban. An agent told Kessler, "Mary had an older vehicle. She was like, why can't I have one? Next thing you know, within a day or two, she has a brand-new Suburban from the Secret Service sitting out there in front of her house."

But according to Kessler, Mary Cheney denied these rumors.

"These stories are simply not true, and I have nothing but the utmost respect for the men and women of the Secret Service,” she told Kessler.

Mary Cheney has had a strained relationship with the gay community. Though she served as the gay and lesbian outreach coordinator for the Coors Brewing Co., for much of the Bush-Cheney administration, Mary Cheney refused to voice her disapproval of George W. Bush’s positions on gay rights.

Only after Bush was reelected in 2004 did she publicly denounce his support of the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would amend the U.S. Constitution to deny marriage rights to gay couples. Cheney told David Letterman that she had no influence over the administration’s position on gay rights and that it was not her job to influence policy.

Mary Cheney gave birth to a son in 2007. She has long been partnered with Heather Poe.




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