Memoir Details NJ Ex-Governor's Gay Trysts

[liberalpragmatist]

> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12919645/

> http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1148186622212800.xml&coll=1 (excerpt below)

Tales of torment: First look at McGreevey book
Sunday, May 21, 2006
BY JOSH MARGOLIN
Star-Ledger Staff

WASHINGTON -- Former Gov. James E. McGreevey felt as if he were "marching slowly into hell" as he fought to overcome his homosexuality and failed, engaging in anonymous trysts with men at highway rest stops even as he polished the image that would propel him to the state's highest office, he writes in his tell-all memoir.

McGreevey's publisher released 16 pages of excerpts from the book, "The Confession," yesterday at Book Expo America, the publishing industry's largest annual convention.

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"As glorious and meaningful as it would have been to have a loving and sound sexual experience 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," McGreevey writes.

"So, instead, I settled for the detached anonymity of bookstores and rest stops -- a compromise, but one that was wholly unfulfilling and morally unsatisfactory."

[davidinalameda]

1. are there pictures

:shrug:

[shain from kane]

2. What ever happened to this scumbag's wife? n/t

[TrogL]

3. How he is a scumbag?

[Puglover]

4. I'll second that.

Enlighten us. How is he a "scumbag".

[shain from kane]

5. Here you go, take your pick. From the internets.

scum•bag

Pronunciation: (skum'bag")
—n. Slang (vulgar).
1. a condom.
2. a mean, despicable person.