Governors Gone Wild

When good governors go bad ... -- Pictures courtesy of Wikipedia

by blogSpotter
Just as we are adjusting to the reality that Eliot Spitzer had a sleazy series of encounters with prostitutes, we are met with the astounding new information that ex-NJ Governor Jim McGreevey had several 3-way trysts with his wife and Theodore Pedersen, a 29-year old political aid and driver. McGreevey’s wife, Dina Matos has denied the allegations. McGreevey came out publicly as a gay man a couple of years ago; Pedersen says that his presence in the three-ways may have been necessary to "inspire" McGreevey to make love to Dina.

Words cannot describe how appalled I am that these men in the public eye have done so very much and gotten away with it. Both governors were Democrats from the Northeast, but we probably can’t make generalizations about geography or party affiliation. Mark Foley was from Florida and Larry Craig hails from Idaho. We do know that drug additives have been found in some of our public drinking water – perhaps some Cialis made its way in. Maybe also some testosterone.

How did these men get away with things as long as they did? Lesser humans would probably get arrested on a Class C misdemeanor the first time out. What gets me about the McGreevey case is that he and Dina had squared things away and gone their separate ways. McGreevey is studying to be an Episcopal priest for heaven’s sake. Why did McGreevey and Pedersen wake this tabloid monster from its peaceful rest?

I will loath, absolutely despise doing it – but I must see what Leno, Letterman and O’Brien have to say about these new developments. These men of high distinction with their towering libidos – they make choices you and I would never make. And yet, it makes the world more colorful all the same. I’m shocked, I’m appalled, and yet I must follow these cases until all the tawdry details are known, for the public good.

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