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Gotta' get: Gay governor is suddenly sought-after
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Posted on 08/18/2004 2:00:33 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Gotta' get: Gay governor is suddenly sought-after Wednesday August 18, 2004 TRENTON, N.J. (AP) Suddenly, Gov. James E. McGreevey is the big ``get'' everyone wants.

McGreevey announced Aug. 12 that he would resign Nov. 15, telling a nationally televised news conference he was gay and had an extramarital affair with a man. He has yet to grant an interview since then, and he has no immediate plans to grant one, spokesman Micah Rasmussen said Wednesday.

McGreevey's press office fields about 200 calls per day, he said, many of them interview requests from beat reporters, network TV stars and others.

``The answer to all of them is the same. He's not thinking about that right now. He's focused on the next 90 days and he has a lot to accomplish between now and then,'' Rasmussen said.

In the news business, must-have interview subjects like McGreevey are commonly referred to as ``gets.''

``This is a major get,'' said Marc Berman, senior television writer for Mediaweek, a media industry trade magazine.

``It just screams of Barbara Walters sitting down and having a chat with him

(Excerpt) Read more at wcbs880.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: mcgreevey

1 posted on 08/18/2004 2:00:37 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Kerry will be jumping out of the closet soon once he finds out his approval numbers will go up.


2 posted on 08/18/2004 2:06:50 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: Sub-Driver
>>He's focused on the next 90 days and he has a lot to accomplish between now and then,'' Rasmussen said.

Yeah, like actually signing those resignation papers.

3 posted on 08/18/2004 2:11:56 PM PDT by Calpernia ("People never like what they don't understand")
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To: Sub-Driver

Hillary Clinton and Jim McGreevey: The Democratic dream ticket for 2008.


4 posted on 08/18/2004 2:18:22 PM PDT by KriegerGeist (Lifetime membership of the "Radical-Right-Wing-Kook-Factor")
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To: Always Right

Kerry will claim he was gay before he wasn't gay.


5 posted on 08/18/2004 2:20:07 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: Geist Krieger

6 posted on 08/18/2004 2:22:57 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Re: Protection from up on high, Keyser Sose has nothing on Sandy Berger, the DNC Burglar)
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To: Sub-Driver

I'm smelling a cabinet post... Perhaps Secretary of NAMBLA?


7 posted on 08/18/2004 2:45:32 PM PDT by Rutles4Ever
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To: Rutles4Ever

How about that wife standing by him with that ANAL look on her face.


8 posted on 08/18/2004 3:22:56 PM PDT by Phosgood
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