An openly gay Romney aide resigned yesterday amid reports he had encountered backlash from anti-gay conservatives on the campaign trail. Singer, a prominent conservative, this year signed a $1 million check to a Super PAC supporting Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. Both men helped push legislators in Albany to legalize gay marriage in New York State last year.īlankfein and Singer, who runs Elliott Capital Management, may seem an unlikely pair to tackle gay rights issues. Wednesday’s event brought together Blankfein and Singer, two of Wall Street’s most high-profile supporters of same-sex marriage. Earlier this year, Blankfein accepted the role of corporate spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, a gay-rights advocacy group. Along with other prominent Wall Street executives, he signed an open letter to New York state legislators last year urging them to legalize gay marriage. In the past year, Blankfein has become a more visible and vocal supporter of same-sex marriage. Richard “Jake” Siewert, a former aide to Timothy Geithner, officially succeeded Goldman’s silver-tongued, veteran spokesman, Lucas van Praag in March. Blankfein’s series of rare public appearances comes weeks after the company installed a new global head of corporate communications to oversee its public relations effort.
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