[quote name='CTLesq']In addition to McGreevy look into Robert Torricelli.
In addition to the pay for sex, ie prostitution the McGreevy participated in he also denied the citizens of New Jersey the opportunity to vote for his successor by dating his resignation effective three months after he announced it which meant under the New Jersey state constitution there would be no special election.
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I don't see how this is doing anything wrong. Hell, he was giving up the seat which he was not required to do. If you want to get picky about it, he could have just sat and office and waited to be kicked out, thereby wasting the state senate's time (and taxpayer dollars). There's nothing that required him to step down. In fact, for him to step down at all, was a stand up thing to do considering he could have taken his chances and tried to make it through an impeachment hearing.
That's why, despite his controversy, I respect Nixon as well. As far as Clinton, while he rode it out, knowing he was guilty of perjury, I think he should have stepped down himself. If for nothing else, it sends the message that even the President is responsible for his actions, even if they are minor crimes.
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Oh and lets not forget McGreevy was married while having sex with a man he paid a six figure salary to, to advise him on counter terrorism issues, while not having any background in it.
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This is pretty much my only complaint against McGreevy. Giving a job to an unqualified person, simply because they are a friend or lover, is always wrong.
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The only people who care he was gay in all of this were his apologists who were trying to deflect legitimate criticisms of his mismanagement of state funds by turning it into an anti-gay issue.
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This could be debated either way. I think both sides used it. As you pointed out, his supporters used it as a way to deflect the issue. However, his opponents also used it, but they did not use it in as much of an obvious way. There's many in this country that see being gay as being wrong in and of itself, and by pointing it out so obviously that he was having an affair with a man, it was an attempt to further demonize him to those people. In fact, had this happened and the person he had an affair with was a woman I don't think there would have been nearly the amount of media coverage that it recieved. Sure its not very common for governors to step down because of controversy but this is all we heard about for a week straight, that seems like an excessive amount of national coverage for an issue that didn't affect 49 out of the 50 states.
