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Posted on 08/12/2004 2:31:07 PM PDT by swilhelm73
NEW YORK -- In a stunning declaration, Gov. James E. McGreevey announced his resignation Thursday and acknowledged that he had an extramarital affair with another man. "My truth is that I am a gay American," he said.
"Shamefully, I engaged in adult consensual affairs with another man, which violates my bonds of matrimony," the married father of two said at a news conference. "It was wrong, it was foolish, it was inexcusable."
The Democrat said his resignation would be effective Nov. 15.
McGreevey, 47, said that "it makes little difference that as governor I am gay," but added that staying in office and keeping the affair and his sexual orientation secret will leave the governor's office "vulnerable to rumors, false allegations and threats of disclosure."
"Given the circumstances surrounding the affair and its likely impact upon my family and my ability to govern, I have decided the right course of action is to resign," he said.
McGreevey did not elaborate on what the circumstances were.
The former suburban mayor took office 21/2 years ago, and despite inheriting a $5 billion budget deficit, he steadfastly refused to boost income taxes for most New Jerseyans. He instead raised taxes on millionaires, casinos and cigarettes.
But he has been dogged by several scandals involving fund-raising.
Among those caught up in recent scandals were his first chief of staff and former counsel; a top Democratic fund-raiser and former high school classmate; and real estate developer Charles Kushner, McGreevey's biggest campaign contributor, who was charged with trying to thwart a federal campaign-finance investigation by luring a grand jury witness -- his own brother-in-law -- into a compromising position with a prostitute and sending video and photos to the man's wife.
McGreevey is the second governor to announce his resignation in recent weeks, following the resignation in June of Connecticut GOP Gov. John Rowland amid corruption investigations and threats of impeachment.
McGreevey rose from suburban mayor to state chief executive by his tenacious pursuit of party politics, maintaining a power base days after he narrowly lost to Republican Christie Whitman in 1997.
McGreevey never truly stopped that campaign until he won in November 2001, beating Republican Bret Schundler by 15 percentage points.
Born in Jersey City, McGreevey graduated from Columbia University in 1978. He earned a law degree from Georgetown University in 1981 and a master's degree in education from Harvard University a year later.
After briefly serving as a county prosecutor, McGreevey became a lobbyist for a pharmaceutical company, then a state government official. While in the Legislature, McGreevey voted for Gov. Jim Florio's $2.8 billion tax hike that prompted a voter rebellion against Democrats.
RAT
For Good Government, Vote For The Crook
What a nice surprize for his wife.
i'm beginning to feel that we need to send the Marines to liberate New Jersey. after the Torricelli debacle and with this obvious blocking of the democratic process by the present governor, New Jerseyites need our help to get the tyrannical boot of the Democrat party off their necks!
Could he have just pulled off a great coup by providing himself a reason he can now use against his detractors in the event that something of a greater nature, i.e., misappropreation of tax dollars, accepting bribes, and the like should come to light?
"I cheated on my wife but I never had sex with that man."
We are seeing the groundwork laid for the 'Closet Homo Defense' here....
" I am a Gay American "
Yeah right like we didn't know he was an AMERICAN
Who cares?
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He went for the twice-baked perversion with a side of guilt-filled lust...as his wife stood there with evil perma-grin.
A fag governor trying to cover himself in the shroud of homosexual sympathy and oppression. He's real sorry about the ordeal for his family? Sorry he got caught, and now has to pay the piper. A new liberal american= gay american, oh those hyphenated americans are becoming obstreperous. Bush/Cheney 20004
Well, maybe he had a consensual homosexual relationship with someone, and maybe he tried to hit on someone else.
watch em post a picture of the Guverner and Gary Condit with a dog collar on Condit attached to a leash....
bttt
I saw this on FNC tonight. I actually remember a time when this would have shocked me. I'm sad to report that nothing.......NOTHING........a Dem politician says or does can shock me any more.
This is how low that once-great Party has sunk.
The Governor of New Jersey, a terrific state, comes out and PROUDLY announces he likes to boink men (or is it.....he likes to be boinked? who cares....). God save this country.
This is another victory (covert ops) for the GOP's Log Rammin Republicans...seducing and then forcing RATs to resign. I see the bigger picture now...
Mr. McGreevey: "I am a Gay American!"
Mrs. McGreevey: "I am a Fag Hag!"
Maybe kerry and him are bunk-buddies. I also detect the look of a slow famine eroding his entire ecosystem(Body) Aids: it's a gay thing," we heterosexuals don't want to understand." Bush/Cheney 2004
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