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Those "Down To Earth" Democrats?

Mike

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TRENTON, N.J. — It's now a case of he said, he said, she said.

Both former New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey and his one-time driver insist that they engaged in three-way sex with McGreevey's wife, Dina Matos McGreevey, who is in the midst of a nasty divorce from from the now openly gay ex-governer.

Matos McGreevey denies that the threesomes ever occured.

The public airing of the alleged private encounters surfaced Monday following interviews published in The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger and the New York Post with former McGreevey campaign aide Theodore Pedersen.

Pedersen, 29, said he gave the interviews because he believed Matos McGreevey was being hypocritical in her recent criticism of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who resigned last week when it was alleged that he had been a client of a high-priced prostitution ring.

"I wanted to get this out now because it was so offensive to me that she goes on television playing the victim," Pedersen told The Star-Ledger.

Pedersen said the threesomes took place between 1999 and 2001 and were known to the three as "Friday Night Specials," according to The Star-Ledger.

The McGreeveys married in 2000. The New Jersey governor resigned in 2004 following public disclosure of an extramarital gay affair.

According to Pedersen, he and McGreevey had become close friends on the campaign trail and eventually broached the idea of group sex involving Matos McGreevey. One night the plans became reality, he told the Post.

"We came up with this nice little formula for making it work," Pedersen said.

The Post reported that a routine soon followed: The three would meet at a local T.G.I. Friday's restaurant and have drinks. Then they would head to the McGreeveys' Woodbridge, N.J., home for "a hard-core consensual sex orgy."

Pedersen told the Post he believed his participation in the group sex was blessed by Matos McGreevey.

"He liked watching me, and she would watch me while she was [performing sex acts] with Jim," Pedersen told the Post. "In my opinion, me being a part of their sexual relationship enhanced it for both of them."

Matos McGreevey on Monday flat-out denied the allegations, according to The Associated Press.

She said Pedersen's claims of consensual three-way sex "are completely false and were prompted by Jim McGreevey."

"Jim has had a close relationship with Pedersen since his days as mayor of Woodbridge, and arranged jobs for Pedersen from that time through his years as governor and beyond," said Matos McGreevey, 41. "They have continued their close relationship since Jim left office. This was obviously payback time for Pedersen."

McGreevey, however, later disputed his estranged wife's denial.

In his statement, McGreevey said he and Matos McGreevey need to move forward for the sake of their 6-year-old daughter.

"This happened, this happened in the past, and now we need to move on with our lives," McGreevey, 50, said without being specific, according to the AP.

The Star-Ledger reported that Pedersen said he had sex only with Matos McGreevey, not the former governor, and was not sure if the former governor is or was gay.

The McGreeveys are in the midst of an acrimonious divorce. She accuses him of hiding his homosexuality before and during their marriage and has sued for damages. He says she should have known he was gay.

McGreevey resigned in 2004 after acknowledging an affair with a male staffer who he said was trying to blackmail him. The ex-staffer said he was sexually harassed by the Democratic governor.
The McGreeveys separated shortly after McGreevey's nationally televised speech in which he declared himself "a gay American."
 

Sandhusker

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Cal said:
Geuss they're probably one up on the Clintons.....uhhh, somehow that doesn't sound quite right.

Bill tried to get another guy for a three-way with Hillary, but nobody would do it for free.
 

Mike

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ALBANY, N.Y. - The state's new governor revealed Tuesday that he had affairs with several women, including a state employee. The confession came a day after he took over from former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who was driven from office amid a prostitution scandal.

Gov. David Paterson said the affairs happened during a rough patch in his marriage, and that the employee did not work for him. He insisted he did not advance her career, and that no campaign or state money was spent on the affairs.

"I do not feel I have broken my commitment to the people of New York state," Paterson said at a news conference with his wife, Michelle Paige Paterson.

Paterson admitted an affair in an interview with the New York Daily News on Monday after he was sworn in, but his comments Tuesday indicate the couple's fidelity problems went deeper than he first acknowledged. He is not having an affair now, he said.

The Patersons said they both had affairs during a time when their marriage was headed toward divorce. But they admitted the infidelity, sought counseling and have built a stronger marriage and family.

"We dealt with it as a family," his wife said. "A marriage has peaks and valleys ... no marriage is perfect."

"I think we have a marriage like many Americans, maybe even like many of you," the governor told reporters. "Elected officials are really just reflections of the people we represent."

Paterson said the affairs took place since about 1999, and one extended into his term as Senate minority leader, which began in 2002. He said he didn't reveal the affairs during his time as a senator, Senate minority leader or lieutenant governor because no one had asked him and he came forward because he didn't want the rumors to cloud his governorship.

"I didn't want to be blackmailed," he said.

Paterson, who is legally blind and the state's first black governor, ascended to office after Spitzer's resignation last week amid allegations he hired a high-priced prostitute from an escort service. Federal prosecutors are still deciding whether to pursue charges against him.

Assembly Democratic Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, said Tuesday he doesn't believe Paterson was weakened by the disclosure.

"This Albany press corps was in a feeding frenzy, looking for anything they could do to find it," Silver said. "And basically what David Paterson did was say, 'Stop bothering people. Here's the story. And that's it.'"

Republican Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, who is next in the line of succession to the governor's office should something happen to Paterson, said Paterson's personal life is Paterson's business only as long as it doesn't interfere with how he governs.

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Steve

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Gov. David Paterson said the affairs happened during a rough patch in his marriage, and that the employee did not work for him. He insisted he did not advance her career, and that no campaign or state money was spent on the affairs.

"I do not feel I have broken my commitment to the people of New York state,"

He said he didn't reveal the affairs during his time as a senator, Senate minority leader or lieutenant governor because no one had asked him and he came forward because he didn't want the rumors to cloud his governorship.

"I didn't want to be blackmailed," he said. [/'b]


One slimey democrat after another.. .. :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: and his only excuse he has is no one asked him about the affairs???

any politician who repeatably cheats on his wife should not be elected..... it isn't one lapse in judgment.. it is a history of affairs.. hey,... this guy is legally blind he could have helped Bill....
 

Mike

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Gov. Paterson admits bedding women, jealousy over wife's affair
New York Daily News ^ | March 19th 2008 | JOE MAHONEY, CELESTE KATZ, and DAVID SALTONSTALL


In an extraordinary public confession less than 24 hours after taking office, Gov. Paterson said Tuesday he has had affairs with "a number of women" in the not-so-distant past - including a current state employee.

Standing shoulder to shoulder with his grim-faced wife, Michelle, the governor said his "conscience is clear" - now that he has come clean about his private infidelities. He said he hopes now to focus on the public's business.

"I just want to get straight with New York's citizens, so that they know who their governor is, and that their governor takes this office seriously," he told reporters packed into the state Capitol's ornate Red Room.

Coming a day after he succeeded Eliot Spitzer, who was toppled by a prostitution scandal, Paterson's startling admissions hit Albany like a surreal, recurring nightmare.

The affairs were a symptom of a then-troubled marriage, the governor said - she cheated, then he cheated, then he cheated some more.

The 53-year-old Paterson admitted he was involved with numerous women "several years ago" - including one who later worked in Spitzer's office and whom Paterson has "inherited" as part of his staff.

Sources later identified her as Lila Kirton, 49, whom Spitzer brought over from his attorney general's staff when he became governor last year. She is now community affairs director for the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

Paterson insisted he never supervised the woman and never used state funds for any of his trysts, some of which took place at the Days Inn at Broadway and W. 94th St.

Asked if he had ever used his office to promote or otherwise help any of the women with whom he was intimate, Paterson said on one occasion he helped resolve a health care matter, but otherwise denied using his influence.

"It was more an issue of humaneness and I did it and they had to accommodate her," he said without elaborating.

Asked if he had ever used campaign funds for hotels or other personal expenses, he left himself some wiggle room - saying he never "knowingly" did so. He also agreed to release hotel and credit card bills, which aides were still scrambling to find.

Meanwhile, since the press conference an Olympic gold-medalist has also come forward, claiming she had a "close relationship" with the Governor and allegedly tape recorded her phone conversations with him, according to a newspaper report.

Diane Dixon, a Brooklyn native who won medals in the 4x400-meter relay at the 1984 games in Los Angeles and the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, claimed that Paterson had assisted in helping her secure a Department of Education job in Crown Heights. .

'Peaks and valleys'

Michelle Paterson, 46 - who acknowledged a past affair of hers in an exclusive interview with Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez on Monday - stood at her husband's side and silently affirmed his account.

She took questions, too - including on what lessons she hoped the couple's children would draw from their decision to stay married.

"In a marriage," the state's new First Lady said stoically, "you're going to have peaks and valleys, but you want to show them how you get through them."

The legally blind Paterson and his wife of 15 years - dressed smartly in a black belted skirt suit and white blouse - entered the news conference hand in hand and patiently fielded questions for half an hour.

Along the mahogany-paneled walls stood many staffers who only a day before were working for a different governor, among them Lloyd Constantine, one of Spitzer's most trusted advisers, and Paul Francis, Spitzer's budget director.

And on the 2nd day ...

It was a wild mood swing from the euphoria of Monday, when Paterson strode into the Capitol's raucous Assembly chamber to chants of "David! David! David!" to take the oath of office as New York's 55th governor and its first African-American chief executive.

On Monday, the Patersons' two children - Alex, 14 and Ashley, 19 - stood proudly by their sides. Yesterday, they were kept away.

When Paterson and his wife first revealed their unfaithful pasts, Paterson mentioned only a single affair, which he suggested had ended in 2001.

Yesterday, he expanded on that account to include "a number of women" and conceded that at least one dalliance continued into his term as Senate minority leader, which began in 2003.

At first, he suggested, his wandering ways were motivated by jealousy after learning of his wife's affair.

"When I became aware of something, I was pretty upset and I was kind of just angry," he said before quickly moving to absolve his wife of any real blame.

"I was jealous over Michelle," he added. "But it was not Michelle's fault."

Friends said the couple is as united privately as they are publicly.

"It makes a big difference when you are both together on this," said Terry Burrus, one of Michelle Paterson's closest friends. "The agony comes from when you are dishonest with each other."

Their decision to face the press was a clear effort to confront the issue in the most direct, public way possible.

"We decided to tell the truth," Paterson said flatly.

When his aides tried to end the press conference, even as reporters' questions hung in the air, Paterson pressed ahead, saying, "What I'd really like to do, so everybody knows, is to deal with this, put this all behind me."

Refreshing honesty

His forthright approach seemed to score points with many in Albany, including Republicans who a week ago were calling for Spitzer's impeachment in the prostitution scandal.

Senate GOP leader Joe Bruno offered no sign of trying to milk Paterson's revelations for political gain, suggesting the fledgling governor will be spared any negative fallout.

"I think his personal life is his personal life, and he has to share what he is comfortable sharing," Bruno said.

"As long as it doesn't interfere with the way he is governing, it's nobody's business. David is able to handle himself. What is important is that the budget get done in two weeks."

The governor said that ultimately he decided to come forward out of concerns that rumors about his past could be used against him by political opponents.

Many in Albany said state officials need to focus on important issues, like how lawmakers will close a $4.6billion gap in a state budget that is due in two weeks. Indeed, that was Paterson's business later in the afternoon in a meeting with legislative leaders.

"I think we're living in a time when it's not a revelation that many couples go through difficulties like this," said state Controller Thomas DiNapoli.

"Again, the fact that they've weathered and they've stuck together, I think that's to be admired and commended. And let's get to the business before the state."
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How will this effect those kids.................................................
 

aplusmnt

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Mike said:
"I just want to get straight with New York's citizens, so that they know who their governor is, and that their governor takes this office seriously,"

Hopefully for NY he takes his oath as governor more serious than his vow to his wife!


Mike said:
Sources later identified her as Lila Kirton, 49, whom Spitzer brought over from his attorney general's staff when he became governor last year. She is now community affairs director for the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

It is good to see she took her job serious being community AFFAIRS director and all. :lol:
 

Steve

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He insisted he did not advance her career,

Asked if he had ever used his office to promote or otherwise help any of the women with whom he was intimate, Paterson said on one occasion he helped resolve a health care matter, but otherwise denied using his influence.

Paterson insisted he never supervised the woman and never used state funds for any of his trysts,

Diane Dixon, a Brooklyn native who won medals in the 4x400-meter relay at the 1984 games in Los Angeles and the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, claimed that Paterson had assisted in helping her secure a Department of Education job in Crown Heights. .

and from the liberal press....
"Refreshing honesty
How many Rolling eyes does that deserve? :roll:
 

Mike

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Sandhusker said:
How dang low have we sunk as a society to be able to even have this thread?

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Please remove hand from cookie jar.........


NY Gov. Paterson To Reimburse Campaign For 2 Hotel Stays ["It does not appear that there were...]
WNBC ^

NY Gov. Paterson To Reimburse Campaign For 2 Hotel Stays

POSTED: 12:50 pm EDT March 21, 2008 NEW YORK -- Gov. David Paterson is reimbursing his campaign for the cost of two nights at a Manhattan hotel that had been charged to his campaign credit card.

However, the lawyer for Paterson's campaign, Henry Berger, said Friday: "It does not appear that there were improper expenditures."

Berger said at a Manhattan news conference that the check has been written to Friends of David Paterson but has not yet been deposited.

The attorney provided reporters with copies of expenses going back to Paterson's state Senate campaign in 2002.
 

passin thru

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Boy................that went right over your head didn't it. We forgive you after all you are a lib.............just some things you can't expect a lib to understand.
 

Mike

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Detroit Mayor Charged With Perjury
Breitbart ^ | 3/24/08 | AP



Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a one-time rising star and as Detroit's youngest elected leader, was charged Monday with perjury and other counts after sexually explicit text messages surfaced that appear to contradict his sworn denials of an affair with a top aide. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy also charged the popular yet polarizing 37-year-old mayor with obstruction of justice and misconduct in office.

Former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty, 37, who also denied under oath that she and Kilpatrick shared a romantic relationship in 2002 and was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice.

In all, Worthy authorized a 12-count criminal information.

"This case was about as far from being a private matter as one can get. Honesty and integrity in the justice system is everything. That is what this case is about," Worthy said at a news conference.

"Just when did honesty and integrity, truth and honor become traits to be mocked, downplayed, ignored, laughed at or excuses made for them? When did telling the truth become a supporting player to everything else?"

A perjury conviction could bring up to 15 years' imprisonment and force Kilpatrick to relinquish the mayor's office.

Worthy has said she and her staff have pored over more than 40,000 pages of documents since January, when the Detroit Free Press published excerpts of sexually explicit text messages sent to Beatty's city-issued pager in 2002 and 2003.

The messages contradict statements Kilpatrick and Beatty gave under oath during a whistleblowers' trial last summer when each denied a romantic relationship.
 

Steve

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In reference to cocaine, Paterson, 53, said in a television interview that he "tried it a couple of times" when he was "about 22 or 23."

"And marijuana probably when I was about 20," he said on the NY1 cable news station. "I don't think I touched marijuana since the '70s."

He said "more Americans have tried a lot more during that period of time and gone on to lead responsible lives and hopefully have lived their lives to their fullest."

seems the new Democratic playbook is "write a book, admit everything and claim it is in the past"... :roll: :roll:

then claim you should support them because they have good judgement and can make the right decisions..


like "hand me the joint , lay down a line,.. and I'll take the skinny white hooker and put it on my campaign's tab"

That way when caught, "Gov. David Paterson," can honestly say he never paid for a hooker..
 

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