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Astonishing 'Confession' from former NJ Gov. (Gay sex trysts in 'bookstores and rest stops')
7Online.com ^ | 5/21/06 | Jeff Rossen

Posted on 05/22/2006 10:19:35 AM PDT by LdSentinal

Gay sex trysts in 'bookstores and rest stops'

(New York-WABC, May 21, 2006) - It was the announcement that caught the attention of the nation. Jim McGreevey, Governor of New Jersey, husband, and father, telling the world he was gay and involved in an extra marital affair with a man. 21 months later, the former governor is going public again with a book titled "The Confession."

This is a tell-all book in every sense of the word. Former Governor Jim McGreevey doesn't appear to hold anything back. In the book, he writes about his life as a gay man in power and how he lied to everyone. The book comes out in September. The publisher just released 16-pages of excerpts.

"The truth is that I am a gay American," said former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey in August of 2004.

It was a personal truth aired in public. Now, McGreevey goes even further. In his new book, "The Confession", McGreevey speaks about meeting anonymous men at rest stops for sexual trysts. "As the years went on," McGreevey writes, "I became as avid a womanizer as anybody else on the New Jersey political scene, but my attraction was largely artificial. My sexual performance a triumph of mind over matter."

This is a tell-all book in every sense of the word. Former Governor Jim McGreevey doesn't appear to hold anything back. In the book, he writes about his life as a gay man in power and how he lied to everyone. The book comes out in September. The publisher released 16-pages of excerpts at a book expo in Washington D.C. Saturday. McGreevey made his first public appearance since the summer of 2004 at the expo.

McGreevey writes, "As glorious and meaningful as it would have been to have a loving and sound sexual relationship with another man, I knew I'd have to undo my happiness step by step as I began chasing my dream of a public career and the kind of 'acceptable' life that went with it. So instead, I settled for the detached anonymity of bookstores and rest stops. A compromise, but one that was wholly unfulfilling and morally unsatisfactory."

In the excerpts, McGreevey doesn't say when the encounters started. Nor does he mention his two marriages to women. He comes off as a man in great pain, in great conflict. "I knew I would have to lie for the rest of my life, and I knew I was capable of it," he writes. "The knowledge gave me a feeling of terrible power."

McGreevey will get $500,000 for writing the book and he's already a scheduled guest on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" for his first interview since the announcement. That interview will air next fall during Oprah Winfrey's new season right here on Channel 7.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: book; confession; disgusting; gay; governor; homosexualagenda; immoral; liar; mcgreevery; newjersey; perverted
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To: goldstategop

He needs to go back into the closet. He is just disgusting. The parkway and turnpike should monitor the rest stops from perverts like him.


41 posted on 05/22/2006 10:40:50 AM PDT by pandoraou812 ( barbaric with zero tolerance and dilligaf?)
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To: Aquinasfan

Was he getting tips on disguise from double-naught spy Valerie Plame, or what? An anonymous governor?


42 posted on 05/22/2006 10:41:17 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: prion
" McGreevey, who is now separated from (wife) Dina . . ."

apparently not.

43 posted on 05/22/2006 10:41:36 AM PDT by smonk
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To: LdSentinal

Again McGreevey tries to paint the issue as one of sexual orientation. It isn't. It's about infidelity to a chosen spouse and the corruption of naming, to high-paid positions of public trust, the lover with whom he was cheating. Said lover does HAPPEN to be male, but who really cares?

All of my friends/acquaintances who are gay are furious with McGreevey for seeking to make this an issue of orientation rather than cheating and political corruption.


44 posted on 05/22/2006 10:42:15 AM PDT by pogo101
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To: DM1
If McGreasy REALLY wanted to write a tell-all book, he'd have to write about his bribe-taking, influence peddling and CRIMINAL activities while in office (Machiavelli, anyone?). Instead, he's peddling smut.

Typical Democrat. McGreasy is no victim - the citizens of New Jersey are for his corruption and mismanagement.
45 posted on 05/22/2006 10:42:45 AM PDT by conservative in nyc
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To: LdSentinal
The truth is out.
46 posted on 05/22/2006 10:42:45 AM PDT by PeterFinn (Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for.)
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To: gidget7

He admits to being a womanizer!!! How many ladies did he expose to the risk of HIV? Now he gets to have a big payday for risking other peoples lives. He should take a long drop with a short rope around his neck!!!! This idiot could have, and may have, caused a chain reaction of pain, misery, and death. People like this really need to be gone from this earth.


47 posted on 05/22/2006 10:43:08 AM PDT by oldenuff2no
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To: LdSentinal
McGreevey speaks about meeting anonymous men at rest stops for sexual trysts.

Thanks for making rest stops so clean and inviting for families, governor.

48 posted on 05/22/2006 10:44:03 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

49 posted on 05/22/2006 10:44:30 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: oldenuff2no

So he's really not a "gay American" he's just a sleazy man-ho who will do anything that walks, crawls or slithers. Ugh.


50 posted on 05/22/2006 10:45:13 AM PDT by Jaded (does it really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: prion

Don't feel sorry for his second ex-wife. McGreevey's, uh -- "track record" -- was one of the worst-kept secrets in New Jersey long before he was married for the second time.


51 posted on 05/22/2006 10:45:30 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: cardinal4
Believe me, the phrasing's similiarity to Augustine's autobiography is purely coincidental. The latter also led a debauched life and went onto greatness. McGreevey led the same but in secret and he fell from prominence to disgrace. And he wants us to revel in his human weaknesses as opposed to the north African saint's celebration of the good he could be. Then again, our time has no use for any one who isn't notorious.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

52 posted on 05/22/2006 10:46:16 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: conservative in nyc

"Typical Democrat. McGreasy is no victim - the citizens of New Jersey are for his corruption and mismanagement."

The sad thing is that the NJ residents keep electing democrats despite the Torch, McFeeley and Corruptzine. They are hopeless


53 posted on 05/22/2006 10:46:32 AM PDT by DM1
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To: LdSentinal
"I became as avid a womanizer as anybody else on the New Jersey political scene, but my attraction was largely artificial. My sexual performance a triumph of mind over matter."

Exactly why did he become a womanizer? To make everyone think he wasn't gay?

Methinks BS...

54 posted on 05/22/2006 10:46:34 AM PDT by jonno
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To: RegulatorCountry

***Methinks he's giving himself cover for some reason. Male prostitutes?***

He's playing the sympathy card. He bares his soul to the world, and throws himself on the mercy of the democrat/socialist/communist lovers. Then he goes on the lecture circuit, makes pots of money, and THEN runs for office again as a poster boy for the "enlightened" America.


55 posted on 05/22/2006 10:47:51 AM PDT by kitkat (The first step down to hell is to deny the existence of evil.)
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To: prion

Not only the ex-wives, but the children. God bless them. Not only is their father a sodomizing sleazeball, he needs to proclaim his illness and sin to all the world. God help the family he has chosen to abandon.


56 posted on 05/22/2006 10:48:01 AM PDT by old and tired (Run Swannie, run!)
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To: Jaded

zactly


57 posted on 05/22/2006 10:48:24 AM PDT by jonno
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To: jonno
I don't care who he sleeps with. But for the gay community, what one does in bed is something the entire world must know, whether it wants to or not. The personal is both public and political with these people as though their very sexual identity depended on the affirmation of others.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

58 posted on 05/22/2006 10:49:09 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: LdSentinal
Let's see, how can we work this in a state motto, which is still undecided for New Jersey?

New Jersey: The Gay Rest Stop State

New Jersey: Come at Our Rest Stop

59 posted on 05/22/2006 10:49:38 AM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: LdSentinal

As a married woman, my sympathy is with this man's family, the women he'd married, and their children. Don't have much compassion for him....it would have been better for all if he hadn't written a tell-all style book. Is dignity really that old-fashioned?


60 posted on 05/22/2006 10:50:56 AM PDT by yellow rubber ducky (One day I realized I've been living in Bizarro world.)
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