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GOP turns up heat on McGreevey to leave Mike Lavers, PlanetOut Network Friday, August 27, 2004 / 05:37 PM With a federal judge scheduled to hear arguments early next month on whether New Jersey should hold a special election after Gov. James E. McGreevey unexpectedly resigned on Aug. 12, Republicans have stepped up their calls for him to leave office immediately. At a press conference in Hackensack on Wednesday, the New Jersey Republican State Committee, along with the Republican National Committee (RNC), unveiled a new 30-second television ad urging McGreevey to step down and allow voters to choose the state's...

Gay Governor McGreevey and his playmate Golan Cipel's prom picture in tuxedos are on the cover of the supermarket trash publication "Globe Magazine." The Globe edition also carries a number of articles that include reports on Cipel's $50 million shakedown. The Globe also says the gay guv cruised gay bars and gyms, and asks whether McGay will take an AIDS test. The Globe edition currently on news stands contains pictures and three pages of shock news tidbits. The Globe reports McG's first wife allegedly found love letters from another man. It is also alleged that in gay circles McG likes...

<p>TRENTON -- An angry Gov. McGreevey yesterday welcomed a federal probe into whether someone in his office had secretly helped a reputed mob boss get paroled from state prison.</p> <p>McGreevey said allegations that a top aide helped alleged mobster Angelo Prisco regain his freedom are the result of disgruntled former state Parole Board executives trying to retaliate against him for letting them go.</p>

Democrats allied with Governor McGreevey scuttled a landmark reform bill Thursday but in the process helped make a hero out of the reformer - an inexperienced Republican lawmaker by the name of Thomas H. Kean The bill, which places new limits on the old political custom known as "pay to play,'' was summarily derailed by Assembly Speaker Albio Sires, D-West New York, who cut off all debate and ordered the measure back to committee without a vote. For nearly 90 minutes, Sires stood at the speaker's podium, ignoring repeated requests from Kean and other Republicans to be heard. Kean, appearing...