Asked if it was really that hard to find someone to date in Washington, DC, in those days, Frank says yes. “Compared to What” delves into their happy personal life but also touches on a 1985 scandal that curtailed Frank’s career - his involvement with a male prostitute. Barney Frankįrank, the first member of Congress to enter into a same-sex marriage, lives with his much-younger husband, Jim Ready, 46, in Ogunquit, Maine. I went from the point where I thought being gay would keep me from being in politics to now where being gay is more acceptable than being a Congressman. “My marriage did better in the polls than the financial reform bill.” “I went from the point where I thought being gay would keep me from being in politics to now where being gay is more acceptable than being a Congressman,” he says between sips of tomato juice at New York’s Parker-Meridien Hotel. In the documentary, Frank speaks candidly about his political battles as well as his well-known struggles with his sexuality. Filmmakers Sheila Canavan and Michael Chandler interview many of Frank’s cronies, including Eliot Spitzer and Nancy Pelosi, and track his last year in Congress (2014). The more guilt-by-association they suffer.”įrank, now 75, shares his political views and personal struggles in the documentary “ Compared to What: the Improbable Journey of Barney Frank,” airing Friday night on Showtime after premiering last year at the Tribeca Film Festival. Bernie Sanders put the party in a better position next November.Īs for Donald Trump’s prospects, Frank says, “The longer he stays in, the more problems he causes the Republicans. Joe Biden decided not to run for president - since the dynamics between Hillary Clinton and Sen. “I believe we are causing ourselves great damage as a country by overspending militarily,” says the lifelong Democrat, who’s grateful Sen. Gobie has said Frank knew sex was being sold from the apartment.Former Congressman Barney Frank has a gloomy forecast for America as the 2016 presidential election comes into focus. However, Frank said he later hired Gobie as a personal aide in an effort to turn Gobie's life around. James Daugherty, an Army officer.įrank, a homosexual, has admitted that he paid Gobie for sex when they first met. Daugherty is now in Seoul, South Korea, with her husband, Col. Gobie, that Gobie took advantage of Congressman Frank and had begun to misuse the apartment without Congressman Frank's knowledge or permission," she told the committee. "It is my strong belief, based on my knowledge of both Congressman Frank and Mr. She said none of the activities occurred when Frank was present. "I called Congressman Frank and reported what I had observed," Mrs. "Until this type of activity began to occur, it never dawned on me that prostitution might be taking place," she said, noting that Frank had moved into the basement apartment in 1983. She said she became aware in the summer of 1987 that different women _ and, on one occasion, men _ would visit Gobie at Frank's residence. 25 to the ethics committee, officially the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. The former landlady, Mary Jo Daugherty, gave her sworn statement Oct. The committee is investigating Frank's relationship with Gobie.įrank said the woman's statements, which first appeared in the March issue of Penthouse magazine, "are complete lies, fabricated stories about events which did not happen."
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