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Barney Frank talks to Men’s Journal

    April 05, 2012

It’s no secret that Barney Frank was no fan of campaigning, and it’s one of the reasons he decided to retire after 16 terms in Congress. But we didn’t realize how much he disliked it. In the new issue of Men’s Journal, Frank calls campaigning the “most god-awful human activity that doesn’t involve physical pain…It’s high tension, and it’s boring and difficult work — begging people for money and ...

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