In-your-face gay former congressman Barney Frank … is a jerk.
The Massachusetts Humanities Council’s 40th anniversary gala at the JFK Library the other night. Frank was seated at the same table as incoming state Senate prez Stanley Rosenberg, who happened to be the point man for the Senate on redistricting, and Barney wasted no time in letting Stan have it!
“He didn’t say hello, how are you, congratulations, nothing. He just started screaming at him,” said Someone Who Was There. “It was very ugly.”
So much so that the organizers of the event moved Rosenberg and his partner, Bryon Hefner, to another table to get away from the grumpy ex-congressman!
Apparently the gist of Barney’s gripe was that Rosenberg didn’t do enough to preserve Frank’s district after the 2010 census forced the state to lose a seat in Congress. Instead, the new congressional map took New Bedford — a Barney stronghold because of his work on fishing issues — and parts of Fall River out of his district and added Blackstone Valley, where he was not a shoo-in, making the voting bloc more conservative. Instead of running for re-election in the newly drawn district, Frank retired. But apparently not without a lot of hard feelings!
These elected fascists really hate being separated from their power. Still, not the worst thing Barney Frank has ever done.
Crashing the US economy by forcing banks to give mortgages to deadbeats (while snogging the guy at Freddie Mac was profiting from those bad mortgages)… that would be the worst thing Barney Frank has ever done.
Bawney Fwank is a despicable drama queen who needs to spend his declining years trolling for twinks in Provincetown. Period.
Regards,
Peter H.
When discussing anything Barney Frank does we can take the “It was very ugly” part of it as read.
And, of course, who can forget Barney Frank assuring the American Public in May of 2008 that Fannie Mae was just fine now, and you could invest in it again, only to have it go belly up in August, then claim he said nothing of the kind?
#1- I thought Frank married a male prostitute, did the prostitute get too old?
You are so behind the times! The live-in love affair with the hustler was over not too long after it was revealed that Bwarney pulled strings for him–well over 20 years ago. Then there was Herb Moses, whom Bwarney helped secure a job at Fannie Mae, with whom both the relationship and job ended in 1998. Lastly, or at least currently, is Jim Ready, who lawfully married Bwarney in 2012. (Something tells me if BF doesn’t change his attitude, a home health aide named ‘Helga’ will be changing his Depends in his declining years.)
Unfortunately for the rest of us, former-Congressman Frank has become the gay-Jewish version of Rep. Charles Rangel (D).
Shouldn’t the post title read “Barney Frank Is Still A Terrible Human Being?
It says a lot when WaPo’s Dana Milbank, uptight defender of the Democrats, writes a farewell column to Bwarney which basically says don’t let the door hit you on the way out. He’s like the legislative equivalent of Dan Savage.