NJ Governor resigns - Page 2

IowaStatePhiPsi · #16 08-13-2004, 07:33 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by hoosier
Apparently this sleaze-ball and other top Democrats in the
smoke-filled rooms of NJ are still trying to manipulate the system,
and won't actually leave office now.

Kind of like the sleeze-ball Republican gov. of Conn?

The sad thing about this is the NJ Gov brought his pretty-boy Israeli boyfriend to Jersey, got him 3 high paying jobs and is thanked by blackmail and now a lawsuit. Goes to show- love is for suckers.

And can anyone blame him for wanting to get out of Jersey?

Kevin · #17 08-13-2004, 08:29 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
Kind of like the sleeze-ball Republican gov. of Conn?

The sad thing about this is the NJ Gov brought his pretty-boy Israeli boyfriend to Jersey, got him 3 high paying jobs and is thanked by blackmail and now a lawsuit. Goes to show- love is for suckers.

And can anyone blame him for wanting to get out of Jersey?

Y'all aren't having very good luck with governors back east, are you?

DeltAlum · #18 08-13-2004, 10:27 AM

I am so tired of hearing about "Sleeze Ball" (fill in Republicans or Democrats).

Neither party has a monopoly on those.

If anybody doesn't believe that the GOP would have handled the possibility of a special election the same way as the Democrats did in this case, they've been recently delving into controlled substances.

It's politics as usual.

If someone wants to attach the "sleeze ball" prefix to "politician," I probably wouldn't argue as much.

In many cases power does corrupt. Thankfully, not all.

33girl · #19 08-13-2004, 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Rudey
The governor's announcement was reportedly driven by the threat of a sexual harassment lawsuit by a former aide, Golan Cipel. Mr. McGreevey, who has two children from his two marriages and whose wife stood next to him during his press conference, acknowledged that he had committed adultery with another man. He did not say that the man in question had worked for his administration.

holy crap, this was actually an episode of Law & Order the other night, starring Peter Riegert (Boon from Animal House). A male coworker was threatening to sue him for sexual harassment and was found dead - they assumed he did it but that wasn't the case (his wife did).

DeltAlum · #20 08-13-2004, 10:37 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by 33girl
holy crap, this was actually an episode of Law & Order the other night

So, truth isn't always stranger than faction.

Rudey · #21 08-13-2004, 10:51 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
The sad thing about this is the NJ Gov brought his pretty-boy Israeli boyfriend to Jersey, got him 3 high paying jobs and is thanked by blackmail and now a lawsuit. Goes to show- love is for suckers.

No the sad thing is the guy lied. The sad thing is that he cheated on his wife. The sad thing is he violated the trust of his people by putting someone in charge of security who was a poet and had no training. That's what the sad thing is. Not everything revolves around gay romances Mr. Iowa.

-Rudey

Love_Spell_6 · #22 08-13-2004, 12:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Rudey
No the sad thing is the guy lied. The sad thing is that he cheated on his wife. The sad thing is he violated the trust of his people by putting someone in charge of security who was a poet and had no training. That's what the sad thing is. Not everything revolves around gay romances Mr. Iowa.

-Rudey

You hit the nail right on the head

Lady Pi Phi · #23 08-13-2004, 12:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by DeltAlum
So, truth isn't always stranger than faction.

Where do you think Law and Order get all their ideas from?

DeltAlum · #24 08-13-2004, 01:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
Where do you think Law and Order get all their ideas from?

Out of the headlines, but they usually aren't ahead of the actual events.

Lady Pi Phi · #25 08-13-2004, 01:28 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by DeltAlum
Out of the headlines, but they usually aren't ahead of the actual events.

Sometimes I think the producers probably make the headlines

wrigley · #26 08-13-2004, 01:35 PM

You hope that while the governor was living on the down low that he was practicing safe sex and didin't pass on anything to his wife.

Who knows who his lover was with before him?

valkyrie · #27 08-13-2004, 01:37 PM

I haven't been keeping up on this story, but do we know for a fact that his wife didn't know he was gay from the beginning?

madmax · #28 08-13-2004, 01:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by valkyrie
I haven't been keeping up on this story, but do we know for a fact that his wife didn't know he was gay from the beginning?

The gay thing was just something that was going to come out anyway. The real story is all the things McGreevey and his cronies have done. He hired his "girlfriend" and gave him a job as the state director of homeland security. The guy was a foreign national and Mcgreevey bypassed the security check to get the guy the job. The guy was a freakin poet with no qualifications for the job.

mu_agd · #29 08-13-2004, 01:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by valkyrie
I haven't been keeping up on this story, but do we know for a fact that his wife didn't know he was gay from the beginning?

that's what i heard. that he told her and the daughters a few days earlier. isn't she his second wife, too?

adpiucf · #30 08-13-2004, 01:57 PM

While a public figure committing adultery is a violation of the public trust, I think the larger scandal (which some others have mentioned) was the fact that the affair was with someone on his payroll.

This case smacks of the Barney Frank affair of the 90's, which involved a gay prostitution ring being run out of the home of a congressman, and with the ringleader being one of Frank's staff members/boyfriend.