You've been posting on this thread this whole time and you had no idea? Yeh, he's gay...or bisexual...he's married with a child...twice.
Pretty odd guy...
But not only is he gay, but he will soon no longer be our governor. I guess that's not a bad deal after all.
Music Man wrote: You've been posting on this thread this whole time and you had no idea? Yeh, he's gay...or bisexual...he's married with a child...twice.
Pretty odd guy...
But not only is he gay, but he will soon no longer be our governor. I guess that's not a bad deal after all.
you got that right, MusicMan. I am not too into the whole political aspect unless it has to do with the presidential canadate. So, whos gonna be the new governer? bruce Springsteen or Jon Bon Jovi?
I would love to have Arnold as my governor. That would be a unique adventure!
By the way, I would have to go with the Boss every time. I love Bon Jovi, but I think the Boss would probably make a great governor.
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SF ally quits in gay affair scandal
Governor had been embroiled in Ulster trip expenses row
By Sean O'Driscoll in New York and David Gordon newsdesk@belfasttelegraph.co.uk
13 August 2004
A US politician is resigning over a gay extra-marital affair - two years after a scandal involving personal expenses on an Ulster trade mission.
Sinn Fein ally James McGreevey is standing down as New Jersey Governor after disclosing that he had been in a relationship with another man.
McGreevey has family links to Banbridge, Co Down, and was in trouble in 2002 over spending $$70,000 of US taxpayers' money on an official visit here.
The expenditure included $3,178 on a family reunion for his relatives in a Banbridge restaurant.
He also hired a Mercedes Benz for himself and his wife to tour on both sides of the border, and stayed in a $$720 per night suite at the Berkeley Court Hotel.
Announcing his resignation last night, father-of-two McGreevey said: "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. It was wrong, it was foolish, it was inexcusable."
The Democrat said he was leaving because his secret - both his sexuality and his affair - had left the Governor's office vulnerable.
The 2002 expenses controversy led to him agreeing to refund the Banbridge restaurant spending.
He said he had been mistaken to charge US taxpayers for the Ulster visit which included meetings with the then Belfast Lord Mayor [and convicted IRA terrorist] Alex Maskey and representatives from Queen's University.
McGreevey also faced criticism in 2002 for holding a New Jersey state reception for Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams.
The New York Post accused him of helping to collect "blood money" for a fundraising tour by Mr Adams.