Posted on 12/01/2006 6:28:50 AM PST by TommyDale
TRENTON, N.J. - The man former New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey identified as his gay lover said Thursday he believes McGreevey is not gay.
Appearing on "Larry King Live," Golan Cipel, an Israeli citizen hired by McGreevey first as a campaign aide and later as his homeland security adviser, said that McGreevey's 2004 resignation speech admission that he is "a gay American" was "part of the spin."
Through lawyers, Cipel had threatened to sue McGreevey for sexual harassment shortly before and after McGreevey's resignation. A lawsuit was never filed.
"I think McGreevey had no choice. There was a sexual harassment lawsuit against him. And he didn't know what to do, and his advisers told him, 'come out first,' and he would be perceived as the victim" and thereby gain control of the story, Cipel said.
While he said McGreevey did make sexual advances toward him on several occasions, Cipel said the former governor also frequently spoke about heterosexual encounters, including sex with prostitutes on trips to Germany and the Dominican Republic.
"I believe that Jim McGreevey is bisexual," Cipel said.
Cipel, 37, in his first extended national television interview since the publication in September of McGreevey's memoir, "The Confession," also urged the gay community "not to embrace McGreevey," saying the former governor committed sexual harassment against him and others.
Cipel, who has repeatedly denied being gay, again insisted that McGreevey's often graphic portrayal of their relationship in the book is untrue.
In the book, McGreevey, 49, writes that he was forced to resign after Cipel threatened to reveal his homosexuality unless he was paid millions to keep quiet.
McGreevey released a statement Thursday night saying, "I stand behind the truth and accuracy of every word in this book." He said he and Cipel had a consensual relationship that lasted for months.
"My only wish for Golan is that he find peace and acceptance in his life," McGreevey said in the statement.
McGreevey now works as an educational consultant and a childhood anti-poverty advocate, and lives in Plainfield, N.J., with his partner, Mark O'Donnell. Cipel has been living in Israel
LOL.
Yes...If you're a guy and can describe what a penis tastes like...unless you're Ron Jeremy and can do "self service"...you're a homo.
Or a guy in a Jim Webb novel
There is a price I'd accept to be gay for an hour. I just haven't been offered it yet! LOL
I thought he was a Godless, selfish, immoral, liberal.
If Cipel's version is correct...he has been wrongly portrayed as McGreevy's gay lover.
It is possible McGreevy's version is spun to avoid a harassment suit by Cipel (who denies being gay, or having any kind of sexual relationship with McGreevy.)
Maybe he's not gay, but he's still a politician...
Oh, okayyyyy. If you insist; your commonwealth is morally bankrupt as well.
I'd be gay for anh hour for $10 million, but I'd only be gay for an hour while sitting at home by myself on freerepublic, lol! After I was finished being gay I'd go about my normal life.
Thank you. All we ask is to be acknowleged, nothing more.
So he will hump anything that moves. All righty then.
Cipel is a laugh riot (/sarc).
This idiot let McGreevey bring him over from Israel to work in New Jersey government in a $110,000 state job (with a Mercedes SUV among other perks), even though he was not a US citizen.
If that was not bad enough. Cipel blithely let Gov McGay lie about him on official documents filed with the federal government.
Cipel also let McGay set him up in an apartment----and later had McG help him buy a condo (according to news reports).
And this ding-dong didn't "get it"? That the governor wanted to bed him down.
Either Cipel has a pathetic sense of entitlement---believing he's so "special" that all these things are due him. Or Cipel is totally clueless.
Probably both.
BTW, nice thread. Some of the posts are priceless, even though most of us do not want to know that much about how these perverts operate.
McGreevey now works as an educational consultant .......YIKES!!!!
It would certainly matter to a girl he was dating.
Really??? There's thousands of bisexuals who would beg to differ with you.
LOL!
No intelligent woman would knowingly date a guy who has sex with other guy, whether he wants to call himself "bisexual" or not.
(sarcasm on)
Good homosexuals are hard core on the homosexual's normalizing political agenda and support the born that way myth.
Bad homosexuals are those who embarass the Good Homosexuals by not being a political asset to the agenda. Those bad homosexuals are labeled "bi" and therefore not homosexuals.
It is like trying to push the lie that the homosexual priest scandal was not about homosexuals.
(/s)
lol
McGreevey standing "behind ANYTHING" should be cause for concern. :~)
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