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2004-08-12 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Raj 2004-08-12 3:15:50 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hookers and Jersey pols. Ya don't see much of that..

Posted by tu3031 2004-08-12 4:01:46 PM|| 2004-08-12 4:01:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Jeff Jarvis is all over this one; if he resigns it's because of a sexual harassment claim filed against him.

Shoulda went with the hookers, Big Jim...

Posted by Raj 2004-08-12 4:14:18 PM|| 2004-08-12 4:14:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 McGreevey is trying what all New Jersey Democrats are trying. . .

Whangle it so a Dem will be the new governor.

However, if you had a "boyfriend" you are hiring to a job to which he is not qualified to cover up a relationship. Resign immediately.

(Either you resign now, and election is scheduled, or all NJ Dems look like fools.)

Could be a special governor election on 11/2.
Can you say Gov. Schundler (R)

Can you see a Lean Kerry state suddenly becoming Lean Bush.

Posted by BigEd 2004-08-12 4:17:34 PM|| 2004-08-12 4:17:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 He's gay. Oh brother.

Posted by .com 2004-08-12 4:30:05 PM|| 2004-08-12 4:30:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Not that there's anything wrong with that...

Posted by Jerry Seinfeld 2004-08-12 4:35:28 PM|| 2004-08-12 4:35:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Well. ... Schundler has just been on Hannity. Schundler (probable Republican candidate) thinks that the New Jersey Democrats stronarmed McGreevey's amour a fellow named Golan Cipel. So, Cipel files a sexual harassment lawsuit, and McGreevey resigns. Now, what's being alledged in the lawsuit?

I think if the "fortuitous" scheduling is to be challenged, we have to know what's in the suit before 9/3, the drop-dead date for a special election so New Jersey voters can go to the polls
on 11/2/04.... If it's bad enough, maybe McGreevey can be forced out immediately. (before 9/3)

Posted by BigEd 2004-08-12 5:00:36 PM|| 2004-08-12 5:00:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Golan Cipel

Posted by BigEd 2004-08-12 5:09:54 PM|| 2004-08-12 5:09:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 nothing wrong with having sex with men. McGreevey's wife has...oh, wait....

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-12 5:18:28 PM|| 2004-08-12 5:18:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Golan Cipel to file papers in Mercer Co. Court this afternoon. - ABC News

Posted by BigEd 2004-08-12 5:26:51 PM|| 2004-08-12 5:26:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Mercer Court Website

Will there be anything posted?

Posted by BigEd 2004-08-12 5:32:30 PM|| 2004-08-12 5:32:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#11
#6
I doubt it'll happen. The NJ machine's too strong...

Posted by Fred 2004-08-12 5:36:37 PM|| 2004-08-12 5:36:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Big Ed, thanks for the link. That's definitely a cucumber worth risking a governorship for.

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-08-12 5:39:30 PM|| 2004-08-12 5:39:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Tomorrow's headlines, "Gay Governor Gets It In The End"

Posted by Capt America 2004-08-12 5:43:22 PM|| [http://captamerica.blogspot.com/] 2004-08-12 5:43:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Harry Truman variation: "The d*ck stops here"

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-12 5:44:48 PM|| 2004-08-12 5:44:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Looks like McGreedy is going to keep the party spirit.
He announced that his resignation will occur on November 15th. This guarantees that the remainder of what was to be his term will go to a Dem and no special election will take place.

Posted by Kelvin Zero 2004-08-12 5:52:01 PM|| 2004-08-12 5:52:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 I heard McGravey's speech on Sean Hannity. When he started talking about his childhood, I knew something was up. That speech was one bucket of sh*t! If I had not the experience in pumping out sewer manholes and sewer mains, I would have literally gagged on that speech.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-08-12 5:58:19 PM|| 2004-08-12 5:58:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 "pumping out sewer manholes and sewer mains"

nice backdoor reference AP

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-12 6:00:36 PM|| 2004-08-12 6:00:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Democrat Underground has the story behind (pun intended) the story:

this gay man who's accusing him of rape is probably a Republican fright-wing plant who seduced the Governor merely to turn around and falsely claim rape in a lawsuit and expose and destroy the Governor's career and family relations.

That's typical right wing tactics, folks. Nothing else about this makes any sense. Unless the Governor knew he was about to be exposed by this guy either through the press or a frivolous lawsuit, there would be no reason for him to step down at this time.

He obviously has been threatened, and didn't want to put his wife and children through all the media harassment if he remained in office.

Darn! Caught us again!

Posted by Mike 2004-08-12 6:02:39 PM|| 2004-08-12 6:02:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Geez, those DU types sound a lot like Arabs in the ME; not beyond making up weird shit to explain away the failings of their comrades.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-08-12 6:24:44 PM|| 2004-08-12 6:24:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 According to Kevin McCullough on Hewitt. . .

This boyfriend of the governor has MUSLIM roots!

Posted by BigEd 2004-08-12 6:52:39 PM|| 2004-08-12 6:52:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 just heard on the radio: he's a former Israeli sailor, and poet - that's what CV'd him for McGreevy's Security Advisor

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-12 7:10:51 PM|| 2004-08-12 7:10:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 I think the Muslim root s really dubious as per what you have there Frank G and elswhere like this Drudge link :

Drudge's link to info on Cipel

Posted by BigEd 2004-08-12 7:17:46 PM|| 2004-08-12 7:17:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Well, so much for the hooker angle.
Oh, look. The little lady's there with him at the press conference. And doesn't she looked thrilled!

Posted by tu3031 2004-08-12 9:02:47 PM|| 2004-08-12 9:02:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 McGreevey had been starting to slip in approval polls around here badly as of late. There was a story released last weekend that in the 2 years since he took office per capita state income and sales taxes paid increased by $417.00 per person per year, by far the highest in the nation in a state that is already close to if not at the top in levying taxes.
The Dem machine is very strong in these parts, but even they can only take so much. I find it plausible that the Dems wanted him gone,the stories of corruption and graft that come out of Trenton are hard to believe and the guy who will take over seems to be a (relatively)decent man. The timing is no coincidence either as you can guess by the lawsuit filed and the fact that Schundler is an excellent Republican alternative who would probably be able to delivery NJ to GW in the general election.
Most politicians are lying rat bastards, unfortunatly NJ breeds that type more than anywhere else it seems.
Oh well - at least in NJ we know this sort of nonsense won't happen again until the next time.

Posted by JerseyMike 2004-08-12 9:30:54 PM|| 2004-08-12 9:30:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 The NJ GOP should raise a stink and argue that McGreevey should be gone immediately so that a special election is held (saying you'll resign 4 months in the future after an election is a blatent move). Then again given the strength of the Dems in NJ I doubt it would happen. And this is probably bad news for Bush in that an unpopular McGreevey could have helped Bush at least make NJ close if not win it.

Posted by AWW 2004-08-12 10:40:04 PM|| 2004-08-12 10:40:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 better to raise the stink for all the mud the DNC lawyerette will throw in Nov.

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-12 11:05:32 PM|| 2004-08-12 11:05:32 PM|| Front Page Top

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