--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings <no_reply@> > wrote: > <snip> > > The democratic guy in Massachussettes recently resigned for being a > > closet gay. > > I've been trying to figure out who you were > thinking of. It just occurs to me that you > might have meant New Jersey rather than > Massachusetts, and were referring to Jim > McGreevey, the former governor.
Gerry Studds. Was a Democratic member of the House of Representatives from Mass. who was gay and buggered a 17-year-old page. He was censured for it but got three standing ovations from his Democrat colleagues. > > If so, he didn't resign for being gay; he > resigned because he had appointed his lover > to a government job, among other questionable > actions. He did come out in his resignation > speech, but the quasi-nepotism issue would > have been the same had he been straight and > his lover a woman. > > New Jerseyans were a lot more upset by the > nepotism and other issues than they were by his > sexual preference (although more surprised by > the latter). > > (What precipitated his resignation was that his > by-then-former lover had threatened to sue him > for sexual harassment, after having resigned > and then demanded to have his job back, which > McGreevey refused. His former lover never pursued > the lawsuit.) > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
