[Vision2020] Cheney's Daughter Pregnant

[Tom Hansen]

>From today's (December 6, 2006) Spokesman Review -

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Cheney's Daughter Pregnant

WASHINGTON - Mary Cheney, the vice president's openly gay daughter, is
pregnant. She and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, are "ecstatic" about
the baby, due in late spring, said a source close to the couple.

It's a baby boom for grandparents Dick and Lynne Cheney: Their older
daughter, Elizabeth, went on leave as deputy assistant secretary of state
before having her fifth child in July. "The vice president and Mrs. Cheney
are looking forward with eager anticipation to the arrival of their sixth
grandchild," spokesman Lea Anne McBride said Tuesday night.
 
Mary Cheney, 37, was a key aide to her father during the 2004 re-election
campaign and now is vice president for consumer advocacy at AOL. Poe, 45, a
former park ranger, is renovating their Great Falls, Va., home.

News of the pregnancy will undoubtedly reignite the debate about gay
marriage. During the campaign, Mary Cheney was criticized by gay activists
for not being more publicly supportive of same-sex marriage. Her father said
people "ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want
to" but deferred to the president's policy supporting a constitutional
amendment banning same-sex marriages.

Cheney has described her relationship with Poe - whom she took to last
year's White House dinner honoring Prince Charles and Camilla - as a
marriage. The two met in 1988 while playing ice hockey and began dating four
years later.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery, Selma, in
Albany, Georgia and St. Augustine, Florida, and many other campaigns of the
Civil Rights Movement.  Many of these courageous men and women were fighting
for my freedom at a time when they could find few voices for their own, and
I salute their contributions."

- Coretta Scott King (March 30, 1998)