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2012 Candidate for President of the United States
Fred Karger (born January 31, 1950) is an American Republican political consultant, gay rights activist and
watchdog, and the first prominent American to announce his candidacy for the 2012 Republican US Presidential nomination. Although
he has not held elected or public office, Karger has worked on nine Presidential campaigns and served as a senior consultant to the
campaigns of Presidents Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. Karger was a partner at the Dolphin Group, a California
campaign consulting firm. He retired after 27 years and has since worked as an activist on gay rights causes, from protecting the
gay bar The Boom to using his organization Californians Against Hate to investigate the LDS Church's and the National Organization for
Marriage's campaigns to repeal gay marriage.
Karger's run for the Republican nomination for President makes him the first openly gay Presidential candidate from a major political
party in American history.
Source: wikipedia.org
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