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Excerpted: TRENTON, N.J. -- The political scene may be chaotic as Democrats and Republicans wrangle over the possibility of a special election to replace Gov. James E. McGreevey, but state law is clear on the process of such an election. If McGreevey stays in office beyond Sept. 3, there will be no special election to fill out his term. He has said he plans to resign Nov. 15, which would make Senate President Richard J. Codey the state's acting governor. --- Codey would serve as governor until the end of McGreevey's scheduled term in January 2006 if McGreevey leaves office...

EXCERPTS TRENTON -- Gov. Jim McGreevey snubbed former FBI director Louis Freeh for the post of state anti-terrorism czar to appoint his alleged lover Golan Cipel. Freeh offered to assume the post free of charge, but McGreevey opted instead to put Cipel into the job with an $110,000 salary. That was just a footnote to reports back in 2002, but is now being revisited following McGreevey’s revelation to the world last week that he is gay and carried on a "shameful" extramarital affair with a former employee. Freeh is a New Jersey native and graduate of Rutgers University and was...

Politics NJ.com has learned that Corzine held a conference call with staffers Tuesday morning and in the wake of it the mood in his Washington office, one person familiar with the call said, was 'crestfallen' since the DC staffers got the impression that he was preparing to run for governor of New Jersey.Most political insiders see a Corzine-South Jersey Leader Norcross-Former NJ Senate President Lynch-US Rep. Menendez alliance developing with a deal cut that would satisfy each party.Norcross and Lynch are united by one common goal: stopping potential gubenatorial candidate Richard Codey (D-West Orange) with whom they would have difficulty...

People always think I’m putting them on when I mention the Lesbian Avengers, but they are in fact a real group. Or were, anyway. One of the most entertaining stories I was ever asked to cover was the kickoff of the Lesbian Avengers Pride Ride through the South in Vidor, Texas, which had been chosen because of some high-profile Klan activity which the Avengers wanted to protest. The Avengers had planned a motorcycle convoy, but most of them were women’s studies professors and other tenured types, and mostly drove minivans and Subarus, and the only diesel power in sight belonged...

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McGreevy Scandal: Homosexuality as the Last Refuge of Scoundrels August 15, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- by Nicholas Stix -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey has managed to snatch martyrdom from the jaws of damnation. He would have the public believe that he didn’t resign his governorship on August 12 because of the scandals that sprouted from his Administration like crabgrass, but because he was the victim of a homophobic society. In McGreevey’s resignation speech, he said that ''My truth is that I am a gay American. Shamefully, I engaged in adult consensual affairs with another man, which violates my bonds of matrimony....

One can't help but be struck by the running themes of the latter-day Democrats: a penchant for relational dysfunction that plays itself out in hackneyed scripts of sexual domination, an inability to grasp base concepts of adult responsibility, and a disregard of fundamental tenets of national security. Consider the latest Democrat peccadillo, which caused the resignation of first-term New Jersey Governor James McGreevey. By admitting to a homosexual dalliance with a subordinate, he tears a page from a familiar playbook by flooding a sprouting field of corruption allegations 1,2 with an eye-popping sex-scandal. Just as Bill Clinton was inoculated against...

TRENTON, N.J. -- When Gov. James E. McGreevey appointed a young, inexperienced former Israeli sailor named Golan Cipel to head New Jersey's homeland security effort after September 11, no one could figure out why.     He was a political unknown, a recent immigrant with no security experience, named to a plum $110,000-a-year job without a background check or security clearance.     Mr. Cipel, 35, had one qualification, the Statehouse rumors went: He was the governor's boyfriend.     Asked by reporters on several occasions whether he was homosexual or had a romantic relationship with Mr. Cipel, Mr. McGreevey never would answer directly, dismissing the...

Okay, please don't flame me. I'm honestly interested in what freepers think about this. Ever since Rush came back from rehab and started talking about "living a lie" and "not being able to make other people happy" and all that, I've had the uneasy feeling that Rush had "discovered" something more about himself than he was letting on. Today, listening to Rush as he talked about his empathy for McGreevy, it seemed inevitable to wonder if Rush's empathy (and, please, if you did not hear Rush's comments, realize it's difficult to assess the tone and emotion with which he delivered...

TORN BETWEEN TWO LOVERS - right click on the word "midi" and save to hard drive or bring it into your player There are times a governor must be just telling voters straight Well, perhaps that may be a wrong choice of words I had hired someone who's indeed unqualified And I'm caught in a position that could look somewhat absurd There has been a man...I gave a job, you see Because he gave a different kind of job to me Just before the suit's reported, I must nip this in the bud And it has really been exciting...

The Governor's SecretPublished: August 13, 2004 ooner or later, it was bound to happen: a major elected official's calling a press conference to tell constituents that he or she is gay. Yesterday, New Jersey's governor, James McGreevey, described his coming to grips with his sexual orientation with uncommon grace and dignity, offering an extraordinary glimpse into the private torment that can accompany a public life lived in the closet. "My truth is that I am a gay American,'' he said. If that had been the beginning and the end of the story, we would be celebrating Mr. McGreevey's candor, not...

August 4, 2004 -- New Jersey real-estate mogul Charles Kushner wants to cop a plea on charges he hired a high-priced call girl to have a motel tryst with a witness against him, and videotaped the steamy session, a court document reveals. Kushner, a top fund-raiser for New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey, waived his right to a speedy trial because of ongoing talks between federal prosecutors and the defense team, the document says. "Plea negotiations are currently in progress and both the U.S. and defendant desire additional time to enter the plea in court, which would thereby render trial of...

The Commissioner of the New Jersey D.E.P. has decided to run interference for his puppetmaster, Governor James E. McGreevey of New Jersey, in blocking a bear hunt, despite a vote of 6-1 by the New Jersey Fish and Game Council supporting such a hunt. The members of said council probably know far more about this subject than either the Governor or his mouthpiece both of whom apparently are willing to sacrifice the welfare and safety of the majority of New Jersey's citizens for the benefit of a handfull of animal rights wackos. If the bear population in that state can't...

"Not New York, Not Pennsylvania, Proud to Be New Jersey". For those of you who don't know, that is the slogan of our state's talk radio station, NJ 101.5. However, it is getting a bit difficult to hold your head high these days as a proud son or daughter of the Garden State. In fact, the news coming out our statehouse and senator's offices is getting downright embarrassing. As a state we are living right up to the stereotypes that the rest of the nation has of us. I think the handwriting was on the wall when the democrats pulled...

July 14, 2004 Lurid Charges Hit Top Donor to New Jersey GovernorBy RONALD SMOTHERS EWARK, July 13 - Gov. James E. McGreevey's top contributor was charged on Tuesday in a bizarre scheme to enlist prostitutes in an effort to silence potential witnesses in a federal investigation of possible illegal campaign contributions.In a criminal complaint that reads like a plot line from an Elmore Leonard novel, Charles Kushner, a New Jersey landowner and businessman with close ties to many religious and political figures, was charged with hiring prostitutes to entice his brother-in-law and his accountant into sexually compromising situations.The complaint says...

Trenton, NJ (LifeNews.com) -- According to a poll by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, a majority of New Jersey voters disagree with Governor James McGreevy's $50 million proposal to fund a New Jersey institute for human stem cell research. Between February 29 and March 7, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,210 New Jersey registered voters, and found that 48 percent of those surveyed disagreed with the Governor's plan, while only 42 percent agreed with the idea. Only Democrats and urban residents were more likely to agree with McGreevy, while all other segments of the population did not approve of the taxpayer-funded program....

(Columbus) – A growing string of evidence suggests that New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey may bow to animal rights pressure and cancel the state’s upcoming black bear hunt, according to the nation’s principal sportsmen’s advocacy organization. “The McGreevey administration has time and again displayed its sympathy for the anti-hunting cause,” said U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance Vice President for Government Affairs Rob Sexton. The Alliance has been in business since 1978, fighting anti-hunting issues, and tracking the decisions of elected officials sympathetic to the anti-hunting movement. Sexton explained that all signs point to McGreevey siding with anti-hunting activists against wildlife experts, public...

March 26 - Hopeful of returning to power in Trenton, state Republicans think they have identified a potent weapon: Gov. James E. McGreevey. The Republican Senate Majority released results today from polling it commissioned in two key legislative districts showing voters responding strongly to an anti-McGreevey message. Sixty percent of respondents in the 3rd District and 59 percent in the 38th District agreed with the statement that they would "send Jim McGreevey a message by voting for legislative candidate's who oppose McGreevey's agenda" in this fall's legislative contests. The polls also showed Republican state Senate candidates beating Democratic incumbents in...

<p>TRENTON -- In what turned out to be his final months as superintendent of State Police, Joseph Santiago took a $2,000 trip to Minneapolis on the taxpayers' tab and ordered $133,000 in renovations for his new offices, including $106,000 in furniture and $900 for two shredders, according to State Police records obtained under the new public access law.</p>

<p>TRENTON -- State Sen. John Matheussen, R-Gloucester, said yesterday that the attorney general should have heeded a plea by State Police in February to share allegations against State Police Superintendent Joseph Santiago with the Senate Judiciary Committee.</p> <p>A State Police investigator wrote a memo, which police sources said was forwarded to the Attorney General's Office, asking for protection from retaliation and asking that the allegations be shared with the committee.</p>