How “Gay Republicans” Hurt The LGBT Community: McCain’s legal team headed by gay lawyer

T revor Potter, a former chair of the U.S. Federal Election Commission who is gay, is serving as the top lawyer for the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

As the campaign’s general counsel, Potter has been identified by newspapers such as the New York Times and Washington Post as one of the nation’s most highly regarded experts on U.S. election laws. Potter has been credited with helping draft the McCain-Feingold Act, a bipartisan federal measure that reformed federal campaign finance laws.

But few mainline news outlets have reported on Potter’s other role as a high-level, openly gay adviser to McCain.

Those who know Potter say he has been out to the GOP presidential nominee and to most of the Republican Party’s political establishment for many years. See McCain’s legal team headed by gay lawyer
Washington Blade