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Samuel David Cheney Has Two Mommies

May 25, 2007
Vice President Dick Cheney and wife Lynne went to Sibley Hospital in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to meet a very special new addition to their family: daughter Mary Cheney's newborn son, Samuel David Cheney, who'll be raised by Mary and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe.

Critics Have No Love for Grandpa Cheney

Dec 7, 2006
Dick Cheney is going to have another grandchild soon, this time from his openly gay daughter Mary (at left above). While the vice president expressed his joy at the announcement, advocacy groups spanning the political spectrum took the opportunity to sound off, with social conservatives bemoaning the horror of a fatherless childhood and gay rights groups pointing to Grandpa's history of hypocrisy on the issue.