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I don't know what to do with this McGreevy thing, even a little.

First, I'm glad he's finally decided he's comfortable enough with who he is to say "I'm a gay American."

Second, how about he resigns because of the fund raising improprieties, but because of the gay thing?

Third, why couldn't he be a Republican?

Fourth, is the media coverage on this as bizarre as I think it is? I mean I'm thinking all these reporters were watching McGreevy squirm and squirm and squirm over this fundraising thing, and then this press conference gets called, and then he's gay... WHAT???? Certainly, we were blindsided and confused at my office.

Fifth, oi... just oi.

Sixth -- you should read his speech. It's not anything vastly eloquent, but for that it is compelling and informative and sort of wrenching really. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/12/nyregion/12TEXT-MCGR.html

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[jamie]

http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/9385081.htm

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[mintygirl.livejournal.com]

My coworker's last name is McGreevey and she has "McGreevey for Govenor" stuff all over her desk and at home. She's into him just because they have the same last name. So when the announcement came over the NPR, she just freaked out. She didn't know he resigned because he's gay. She then had an ernest talk with our gay coworker how horrible this affair was. Now she knows he's gay and it was a gay affair. This has no point other than I don't think other people know what to do with it yet either.

[ex-mijra932.livejournal.com]

Yes, definitely weird and interesting. As I think I just told ladysisyphus, this is the first news we've had, having just arrived home, and by far the most interesting thing about it was how hard it made the gay boys at our dinner table laugh. Which should tell you, a bit, how puzzled we are about what to think of this. It's terrible that he hasn't been--among other things--a great governor. You have to wonder how that might have changed the initial reactions.