News on Jim McGreevey

Weird Pressers

2009-06-24T18:03:27Z

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2004 file photo, Dina Matos McGreevey, left, stands next to her husband Gov. James E. McGreevey as he announces he will resign in November during a news conference at the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. where also admitted he had an extramarital affair...

Weird politics: Hold on, did he just say that?

2010-02-26T17:05:38Z

<div id="subtitle">A history of weird political press conferences: Wait a minute, did he just say that?</div><div><p>Wait a minute, back up. There's the Democratic governor of New Jersey, the father of two daughters, standing next to his attractive wife, giving a televised press conference. Something must be wrong with the sound. Did he just use the word "gay"? In the first person?<...

Stonewall Vision 2009 Stonewall Community Foundation Annual Dinner

2009-06-17T23:17:03Z

NEW YORK - JUNE 17: Honoree screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, Bishop Gene Robinson, and former New Jersey Governor James McGreevey attend the Stonewall Vision 2009 Stonewall Community Foundation Annual Dinner at ...

Gay Entertainment Report: Tribeca To Premiere Gay Outing Doc

2010-03-03T03:46:48Z

<div id="subtitle">New York's Tribeca Film Festival will premiere director Kirby Dick's new documentary on the outing of gay and lesbian politicians</div><div><p><p>New York's Tribeca Film Festival will premiere director Kirby Dick's new documentary on the outing of gay and lesbian politicians.</...

Laureate faces silence of the iambs

2010-03-04T03:12:57Z

<div><p>New Jersey's legislature has voted to abolish the position of state poet laureate after the governor discovered that he could not sack the current holder of the post. </p><p>Amiri Baraka, who was appointed by the Democrat state governor, James McGreevey, has attracted criticism since reading his poem Somebody Blew Up ...

A Congressman Decides Not to Play the New Jersey Game Anymore

2010-03-04T01:09:52Z

<div><p>Finally, after years of false starts, Rob Andrews has grasped what so many ambitious and otherwise bright New Jersey Democrats haven’t: If you stand around waiting for someone to hand you a promotion, you’re never going to get anywhere. </p><p>Andrews, age 50, is intimately familiar with the particular agony that attends missed opportunities in politics, because he is condemned t...