See? Those damn evil smokers!
Posted on 05/24/2006 4:28:51 AM PDT by Puppage
TRENTON, N.J. -- Former Gov. James E. McGreevey and his new partner are still house hunting, and have broadened their search to include possible digs in New York City.
A spokesman for the couple said the nation's first openly gay governor and his investment adviser partner of several months plan to rent an apartment in Manhattan while looking for more permanent quarters in New York or New Jersey. They had been eyeing a house in Plainfield, a gay-friendly city in central New Jersey, but the deal recently fell through.
"They have sold the loft in the city and are going to rent an apartment in the city until they decide where they are going to live," said Jonathan Capehart, who handles publicity for McGreevey and his partner, Mark O'Donnell.
McGreevey, 48, stunned the nation by revealing himself as "a gay American" in August 2004. He announced his homosexuality and his intent to resign in the same nationally televised speech. His aides said McGreevey had been involved in an extramarital affair with a man on his staff.
The former governor has a wife from whom he is separated, a former wife, and a daughter with each.
After leaving office in November 2004, more than a year before his term was up, the former governor began work on a memoir with writer David France. The book, titled "The Confession," is due in stores Sept. 19.
In a 16-page excerpt released at a national book fair on Saturday, McGreevey reveals a personal hell as he struggled with his homosexuality. His conflicted past included anonymous trysts with men at highway rest stops and trips to strip clubs meant to bolster a false image as a womanizer, according to the excerpts.
Judith Regan, chief executive officer of publisher Regan Books, said the memoir is the most candid she has ever come across.
"This is a man who is able to talk about his personal and political triumphs and tragedies in a profound and insightful way," said Regan.
She said she believed writing the book was painful for McGreevey, a lifelong Catholic, but was also cathartic.
"He's more relaxed and comfortable living the life he was meant to live," she said.
Yet, strangely, he left out all of the parts about his criminal behavior. It's a ploy, but it's one that appears to be working, as he enlists all possible help from the perversion-friendly media and publishing industries. The only reason why he goes into such lurid and prurient detail about his debauchery is because he wants to sell books while escaping scrutiny and punishment for his crimes and corruption. It's a classic strategy of diversion, feint, sleight-of-hand...
Yep, she definately needs to get her Gaydar checked.
If I recall the schpiel correctly, the blood would be tested for diseases and discarded. The donor would be informed of any positive results on these tests.
Still a cop out...Why expose the the blood workers to the risk of accidental needle stick or risk the blood supply in case it is mishandled?
This guy should be disgraced, not lauded as some kind of martyr.
"but that evil, second hand cigarette smoke, is killing mountain climbers on top of Mt. Everest." That is funny...However, it is true that you don't see a lot of folks on top of Mount Everest!
Not as if NJ was anywhere near the terror attacks tho, riigggghhhhhhttttt???????????
About two months before McGreevey's announcement, as the corruption investigation was closing in, I predicted on these pages that McGreevey would simply stop denying the homosexuality rumors and any questions about bribery and ethical lapses would be lost in the ensuing firestorm.
Boy did I call that one right!
Well, with a Nathan's there, I'm sure McGreevey stopped in when he was hankering for a wiener.
No problem. The burden is mine. I just wanted to be sure I understood what you were saying. Thank you for clearing that up.
Or perhaps to be Rogered by Roy...
I didn't realize the fellow was in the merchant marine.
You'll find a coffee place, a fireplace, a cozy room
A little nest that nestles where the roses bloom
Just Marky and me and the seaman makes three
We'll be happy in our Blue Heaven
Leni
See? Those damn evil smokers!
And in a similar, though cryptic comment, mcgreevy boasted that his former boy toy Golan Cipel's annals were the most candied that he's ever come across.
Indeed ... that must be part of the schooling fish mentality that is part of our age old genetic makeup.
We were descended from fish, right? Or was that monkeys?
I get so confoosed. ;)
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