NJ Governor Feels the Sting of the "Little Brown Ring"

As if we needed any more proof, gay sex with your security advisor appears to be a bad career move. It's too bad. I thought McGreevey was doing a great job as NJ's governor. He balanced the state's budget, simplified a lot of processes at agencies such as the DMV, plus, according to his accuser, "did that cute little thing with his tongue."

Seriously, it's a shame that qualified people can't stay in office because there is still such a stigma attached to sex, especially that special brand of man-on-man action made popular by Oscar Wilde, ancient Greeks and the second Darren from Bewitched.

The bigger picture of all this is that the already-thin pool of qualified leaders willing to open their lives to public scrutiny by entering politics will continue to shrink. We will be sentenced to a never-ending stream of semi-retarded sperm-lottery winners (GW Bush), bored ego-maniacal billionaires (Bloomberg, Corzine), and shameless opportunists (Hilary Clinton). And it's not that these people won't have something to offer, but it will be unfortunate that this is all we have to choose from.

I long for the good old days when a white segregationist senator could have an illegitimate half-black family that mysteriously kept quiet until he was comfortably in diapers. Or, when an FBI director could don a dress and feel pretty without the public scrutinizing his mismatched purse or stubby ankles. Ahh, those were the days...

...Here's to hoping Bloomberg's not diddling Harry Potter.

by faktorial.com - where being gay is cannot stop our deep, probing satire

From NY Post Article:

the man involved in the affair was Golan Cipel, 35, an Israeli poet whom McGreevey hired in 2002 as his homeland security adviser, setting off a firestorm of criticism.

Cipel tried to blackmail the governor by threatening to file a sex-harassment suit.
"A demand was made for millions of dollars," the adviser said. "Unless these monies were paid, the governor would be exposed to charges of sexual harassment and worse. Therefore it was turned over to appropriate law enforcement."

New York Post Online Edition: newsmcgreevy.bmp