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wife and their daughter at the Jersey shore, while exclaiming, “Come out and see what’s new in New Jersey.” Folks, you just can’t make this stuff up.
As the truth unfolds, it will be abundantly clear that McGreevey’s homosexuality was no recent revelation to him, but rather has been his norm in a long political career that could fairly be described as one long deception of the public for his own personal gain. Some details, if revealed, are sure to shock even the cynical among us.
McGreevey’s corruption, deception, and sleaze are well illustrated in his outrageous decision to appoint his male lover, an Israeli citizen, to a critical, intelligence-sensitive, and extremely well-paid post in homeland security. The taxpayers funded his extramarital relationship, not unlike the infamous 1970s case of Congressman Wayne Hays of Ohio, who put his mistress, Elizabeth Ray, on his payroll as a secretary despite the fact that, as she later revealed, she could not type. (A powerful committee chairman, Hays was forced out of his chairmanship and eventually Congress as a result.)
All this should be obvious to any clear-thinking person. What may not be obvious is the effect of the McGreevey scandal on the presidential contest.
There are two major consequences, one within New Jersey and the other national in its reach. New Jersey situation
Laughably, McGreevey declared that his resignation would be delayed until Nov. 15 in order to ensure a smooth transition. One doubts that the transfer of power in a single state—95 days under McGreevey’s schedule—must take longer than the national transfer of power from one president to another—eighty days should Keriy win the White House. Instead, McGreevey and his democratic associates were trying to prevent a special election for governor on the same day as the presidential election, which would have occurred had McGreevey stepped down by early September.
By sticking around, the disgraced governor can pass along the statehouse to a Democratic crony, the state senate president, and a whole year will pass before the regularly scheduled election, allowing an easily distracted public plenty of time to forget this massive embarrassment. Furthermore, the
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