Posted on 05/22/2006 10:19:35 AM PDT by LdSentinal
Gay sex trysts in 'bookstores and rest stops'
(New York-WABC, May 21, 2006) - It was the announcement that caught the attention of the nation. Jim McGreevey, Governor of New Jersey, husband, and father, telling the world he was gay and involved in an extra marital affair with a man. 21 months later, the former governor is going public again with a book titled "The Confession."
This is a tell-all book in every sense of the word. Former Governor Jim McGreevey doesn't appear to hold anything back. In the book, he writes about his life as a gay man in power and how he lied to everyone. The book comes out in September. The publisher just released 16-pages of excerpts.
"The truth is that I am a gay American," said former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey in August of 2004.
It was a personal truth aired in public. Now, McGreevey goes even further. In his new book, "The Confession", McGreevey speaks about meeting anonymous men at rest stops for sexual trysts. "As the years went on," McGreevey writes, "I became as avid a womanizer as anybody else on the New Jersey political scene, but my attraction was largely artificial. My sexual performance a triumph of mind over matter."
This is a tell-all book in every sense of the word. Former Governor Jim McGreevey doesn't appear to hold anything back. In the book, he writes about his life as a gay man in power and how he lied to everyone. The book comes out in September. The publisher released 16-pages of excerpts at a book expo in Washington D.C. Saturday. McGreevey made his first public appearance since the summer of 2004 at the expo.
McGreevey writes, "As glorious and meaningful as it would have been to have a loving and sound sexual relationship with another man, I knew I'd have to undo my happiness step by step as I began chasing my dream of a public career and the kind of 'acceptable' life that went with it. So instead, I settled for the detached anonymity of bookstores and rest stops. A compromise, but one that was wholly unfulfilling and morally unsatisfactory."
In the excerpts, McGreevey doesn't say when the encounters started. Nor does he mention his two marriages to women. He comes off as a man in great pain, in great conflict. "I knew I would have to lie for the rest of my life, and I knew I was capable of it," he writes. "The knowledge gave me a feeling of terrible power."
McGreevey will get $500,000 for writing the book and he's already a scheduled guest on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" for his first interview since the announcement. That interview will air next fall during Oprah Winfrey's new season right here on Channel 7.
He needs to go back into the closet. He is just disgusting. The parkway and turnpike should monitor the rest stops from perverts like him.
Was he getting tips on disguise from double-naught spy Valerie Plame, or what? An anonymous governor?
apparently not.
Again McGreevey tries to paint the issue as one of sexual orientation. It isn't. It's about infidelity to a chosen spouse and the corruption of naming, to high-paid positions of public trust, the lover with whom he was cheating. Said lover does HAPPEN to be male, but who really cares?
All of my friends/acquaintances who are gay are furious with McGreevey for seeking to make this an issue of orientation rather than cheating and political corruption.
He admits to being a womanizer!!! How many ladies did he expose to the risk of HIV? Now he gets to have a big payday for risking other peoples lives. He should take a long drop with a short rope around his neck!!!! This idiot could have, and may have, caused a chain reaction of pain, misery, and death. People like this really need to be gone from this earth.
Thanks for making rest stops so clean and inviting for families, governor.
So he's really not a "gay American" he's just a sleazy man-ho who will do anything that walks, crawls or slithers. Ugh.
Don't feel sorry for his second ex-wife. McGreevey's, uh -- "track record" -- was one of the worst-kept secrets in New Jersey long before he was married for the second time.
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
"Typical Democrat. McGreasy is no victim - the citizens of New Jersey are for his corruption and mismanagement."
The sad thing is that the NJ residents keep electing democrats despite the Torch, McFeeley and Corruptzine. They are hopeless
Exactly why did he become a womanizer? To make everyone think he wasn't gay?
Methinks BS...
***Methinks he's giving himself cover for some reason. Male prostitutes?***
He's playing the sympathy card. He bares his soul to the world, and throws himself on the mercy of the democrat/socialist/communist lovers. Then he goes on the lecture circuit, makes pots of money, and THEN runs for office again as a poster boy for the "enlightened" America.
Not only the ex-wives, but the children. God bless them. Not only is their father a sodomizing sleazeball, he needs to proclaim his illness and sin to all the world. God help the family he has chosen to abandon.
zactly
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
As a married woman, my sympathy is with this man's family, the women he'd married, and their children. Don't have much compassion for him....it would have been better for all if he hadn't written a tell-all style book. Is dignity really that old-fashioned?
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