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Maloney finished third in the September 12 primary, with 9.4% of the vote. Ĭonsistently polling in the single digits, Maloney was offered a chance to run for the office on the Liberal Party ticket, but declined, saying he would support whoever won the Democratic nomination. According to Gay City News, his "competitive fundraising and wide travels across the state during the past year have impressed many party professionals with the seriousness of his run." During the campaign, Maloney was endorsed by the New-York-state-based gay rights organization Empire State Pride Agenda and Karen Burstein, the first lesbian to run for attorney general, in 1994. Maloney ran for the Democratic nomination for New York Attorney General in 2006. In an article about the event, a newspaper noted that Maloney often called himself "the highest-ranking openly homosexual man on the White House staff". įollowing the killing of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, Maloney was one of two representatives Clinton sent to his funeral. At a campaign event Clinton said that Maloney worked closely with him. After Clinton was reelected, Maloney was offered a position in the White House staff and served as a senior advisor and White House Staff Secretary from 1999 to 2000, among the youngest to serve in that capacity. In Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign Maloney worked as Director of Surrogate Travel. In 1991, Maloney began working on Bill Clinton's first campaign for president as deputy to chief scheduler Susan Thomases.
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Early political career Clinton administration