I’m just gonna post every article from today’s Star-Ledger, New Jersey’s main newspaper, on the McGreevey thing.
News
McGREEVEY QUITS, ADMITS GAY AFFAIR
Gov. James E. McGreevey announced yesterday that he will resign, citing an adulterous affair with a male lover and declaring, “I am a gay American.”
Exit upends political landscape
Another political bombshell, another politician stepping aside, and suddenly New Jersey’s political world is in tumult like never before.
After a calm morning, a thunderbolt
The day New Jersey’s governor quit and revealed he is gay started like most Thursdays in August. Vacations had emptied many offices. The stuffy, hurricane-driven weather was the top news. It looked to be a boring day.
The man who toppled a governor
The seeds for Gov. James E. McGreevey’s stunning announcement yesterday that he is gay and that he will resign in November were planted four years ago at an elegant political reception in Israel.
Charge can end a career even it if can’t be proved
Sexual harassment is a charge often hard to prove, yet critically damaging by its very nature.
Right place, right time — again
Once again, the dust has settled, and Richard Codey is standing on top.
Dramatic admission rekindles memories
Yesterday, Gov. James E. McGreevey came out like few others, standing under the gold dome of the Statehouse, in front of scores of reporters and carried live on a national television news bulletin.
90-day delay avoids chaos, focuses power
Gov. James E. McGreevey’s decision to time his resignation to take effect in mid-November keeps the governor’s office in Democratic hands at least until January 2006 and gives extraordinary power to his successor, Senate President Richard Codey.
A Jersey guy who seemed so real
For as long as he was in public office — and that was 14 years — everyone who met James E. McGreevey thought they were seeing everything there was to know.
Compassion , scorn dot party lines
Compassion from fellow Democrats.
Still welcome in Woodbridge
From the Formica counter at the Reo Diner in Woodbridge, where Gov. James E. McGreevey greeted so many coffee-drinkers, to the treadmills of the Club at Woodbridge, where the former mayor jogged so many miles, his hometown stood by their former mayor after he proclaimed himself a gay American and resigned.
On street, the news rates three or more ‘Wows’
At Antones Tap Room in Union County, the news silenced the jukebox.
At first surprise and then support
People’s hearts bled for her.
Editorial
McGreevey falls short of the full truth
Gov. James E. McGreevey chose a curious construction yesterday in the wording of his stunning announcement that he is a homosexual and will resign his office on Nov. 15. “My truth,” he said, “is that I am a gay American.” Not the truth, but “my truth.”
Opinion
Three line headline
It was a well-written speech, and the delivery was inspired. James E. McGreevey — his wife, Dina, at his side, his parents standing behind him — was by turns wistful, eloquent and insightful as he spoke of the mysteries of sexual desire, his confusion as a troubled youth and his determination to play it the straight way.
Smashing the wrong facade
As I was getting ready to drive over to Trenton for the governor’s press conference yesterday, I rummaged through my bureau to find a T- shirt to throw into the car. I needed it because I like to go for a run on the way home after work. A nice, long run followed by a few cold beers relaxes me.
Whoa. I read the fourth link as “The Man Who Topped a Governor”. My brain is totally in the gutter, I swear.