Changes

===Fannie Mae===

===Fannie Mae===

In the midst of the [[Financial Crisis of 2008|financial crisis of 2008]], it was revealed that Frank's former homosexual partner,<ref>[http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080924145932.aspx Media Mum on Barney Frank's Fannie Mae Love Connection] Business & Media Institute, September 24, 2008</ref> an executive at [[Fannie Mae]], had been one of the foreleaders to [[deregulate]] the [[lending]] restrictions on the agency and that Frank may have acted through a [[conflict of interest]] in the 1990s.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,432501,00.html FoxNews]</ref>

In the midst of the [[Financial Crisis of 2008|financial crisis of 2008]], it was revealed that Frank's former homosexual partner,<ref>[http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080924145932.aspx Media Mum on Barney Frank's Fannie Mae Love Connection] Business & Media Institute, September 24, 2008</ref> an executive at [[Fannie Mae]], had been one of the foreleaders to [[deregulate]] the [[lending]] restrictions on the agency and that Frank may have acted through a [[conflict of interest]] in the 1990s.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,432501,00.html FoxNews]</ref>

===OneUnited Bank===

===OneUnited Bank===

===Marijuana===

===Marijuana===

Frank sponsored a bill to decriminalize marijuana for medical purposes. Also, Frank was present when authorities arrested his same-sex partner for [[marijuana]] possession, cultivation and use of drug paraphernalia in 2007.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/06/barney-frank-present-partner-arrested-pot/ Barney Frank Present When Partner Arrested for Pot, FoxNews, November 6, 2009]</ref> He claimed he was unaware his partner had marijuana plants and that he wouldn't know what marijuana plants looked like<ref>[http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/dpgo_barney-frank-present-during-marijuana-bust1257553669640 Barney Frank present during marijuana bust]</ref> despite having personally introduced two pro-marijuana bills to Congress earlier in the year.<ref>[http://www.house.gov/frank/pressreleases/2009/06-19-09-marijuana-bills.html Frank Introduces Bills to Prevent Federal Criminal Prosecution for Medical and Personal Marijuana Use]</ref>

Frank sponsored a bill to decriminalize marijuana for medical purposes. Also, Frank was present when authorities arrested his same-sex partner for [[marijuana]] possession, cultivation and use of drug paraphernalia in 2007.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/06/barney-frank-present-partner-arrested-pot/ Barney Frank Present When Partner Arrested for Pot, FoxNews, November 6, 2009]</ref> He claimed he was unaware his partner had marijuana plants and that he wouldn't know what marijuana plants looked like<ref>[http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/dpgo_barney-frank-present-during-marijuana-bust1257553669640 Barney Frank present during marijuana bust]</ref> despite having personally introduced two pro-marijuana bills to Congress earlier in the year.<ref>[http://www.house.gov/frank/pressreleases/2009/06-19-09-marijuana-bills.html Frank Introduces Bills to Prevent Federal Criminal Prosecution for Medical and Personal Marijuana Use]</ref>

===Obamacare protests===

===Obamacare protests===

Liberals hold contempt for conservative women and call them either crazy or stupid. Like a child, Frank insults both [[Michele Bachmann]] and the average American citizen protesting government-run healthcare,<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/06/barney-frank-takes-dig-republican-colleague/ Frank Mocks Health Reform Protesters, Bachmann, FoxNews, November 6, 2009]</ref>  

Liberals hold contempt for conservative women and call them either crazy or stupid. Like a child, Frank insults both [[Michele Bachmann]] and the average American citizen protesting government-run healthcare,<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/06/barney-frank-takes-dig-republican-colleague/ Frank Mocks Health Reform Protesters, Bachmann, FoxNews, November 6, 2009]</ref>  

{{cquote| '''Some of the people (at the rally) that wanted to engage me in conversation appeared to have been the losers in the 'Are you smarter than Michele Bachmann contest?'''}}  

{{cquote| '''Some of the people (at the rally) that wanted to engage me in conversation appeared to have been the losers in the 'Are you smarter than Michele Bachmann contest?'''}}