Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (1966–) began his political career working on Bill Clinton’s 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns. In Clinton’s second term, Maloney served as a senior West Wing adviser—known as the “highest ranking openly homosexual man on the White House staff.” After the Clinton administration, he worked in the corporate and legal worlds, returning to politics briefly for a failed campaign for Attorney General of New York in 2006. In 2012, Maloney ran for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat in New York’s 18th congressional district. Running against Representative Nan Hayworth (R-NY), Maloney campaigned on supporting marriage equality and Planned Parenthood funding, and on opposing the federal budget proposed by Republicans.
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