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Pepper on McGreevey: Yet more government sexcapades

March 20th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Gay, Opinion, politics by Pepper

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  1. Pepper on Spitzer: Politi-cos and Politi-hos
  2. Pepper on McGreevey: Yet more government sexcapades

OK, so the government sexcapades continue as now-former New Jersey Governor McGreevey has some sexual skeletons in his closet, like being gay.

No wait, we knew that.

He likes dudes and had fun sexxxy times with his driver.

No wait, we knew he liked dudes, and his driver is a dude. so they had sex. OK.

He likes dudes and had fun sexxxy time with his driver and his wife.

Uh-huh. So, three consenting adults allegedly had fun, sexxxy times. He says so. She denies it.

It was in the privacy of his own home with other consenting adults. Allegedly. I tried to take a minute to see if it’s illegal in NJ, just in case. Then I though, honestly that would be a stupid law anyway. So, I don’t care. Plus, the hits that come up when you type “threesomes” and “New Jersey” into Google (250,000 of them) are not what I was looking for.

The Bottom Line

McGreevey is not Eliot Spitzer, which is where this is all coming from. Spitzer broke the law, a law which he busted other people for breaking. McGreevey likes to have fun with multiple partners simultaneously. Allegedly. These do not equate.

McGreevey Wasn’t an Openly Gay Governor

Also, I am bothered that they call mcgreevey the first openly gay governor. His situation is not a triumph over intolerance; it wasn’t proof that he could be elected on his platform and his stand on important issues, rather than with whom he spent his free time (ahem, without pay cash-money). He wasn’t open.

  1. He hid it.
  2. It came out.
  3. He came out,
  4. and then he resigned in shame.

This meant that his time being openly gay and his time as governor overlapped by, like, five minutes. That he had to hide it in order to get elected is everyone’s shame.

It’s All About Who You Bl-, er Know

Giving his boyfriend jobs (and I’m not talking about neither “hand” nor “blow”) is the kind of crony-ism that all politicians, as well as captains of industry, and corporations, and other places of employment, share. It’s usually about who you know, and by extension, to whom you’ve given a job (hand, or otherwise).

I am so done with Governors, their “scandals,” and their wives. She said no, let her have that. He’s not the governor anymore, so why bother?

I think I am going to call Governor Patterson the first openly legally blind governor in the country.

Pepper is a recent graduate of Sheboygan Conservatory of Music where she studied the accordion. She enjoys Horatio Caine/Grissom fic and old episodes of Designing Women. Since she has become unemployed, she’s got a lot of time to find stuff to be annoyed about.

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Pepper on Spitzer: Politi-cos and Politi-hos

March 14th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Opinion, politics by Pepper

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  1. Pepper on Spitzer: Politi-cos and Politi-hos
  2. Pepper on McGreevey: Yet more government sexcapades

[Ed. note: Welcome to the first in what I hope will be a long-running opinion column by the insightful, and delightfully spicy, Pepper.]

I have been reading a lot of things about Eliot Spitzer lately, a man for whom I voted back in Aught Six, and I think about politics and prostitution making strange bedfellows, but it’s really not that strange, nor that new. JFK, LBJ, Clinton, GHWB, hell, even Arnold fondled women.

I just wonder: in this era when nothing is sacred, and no one expects public figures to have any right to privacy because Perez Hilton is digging in their trash, how did he not figure out he’d be caught? It can’t just be simple hubris, here’s a man who spent his career tracking similar criminals, so he knew it could be, and has been, done.

So what the hell?

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Thinking Outside the Bottle…

February 22nd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Environment, Minnesota, politics by Amber Collett

Christmas holidaysToday I’m posting about the Think Outside the Bottle campaign, run by Corporate Accountability International.

Many people are unaware of the environmental and social justice issues associated with bottled water. The manufacture, bottling, and transport of water bottles consumed 17 million barrels of oil in the US last year, enough to fuel 1 million cars for one year. Up to 40% of all bottled water on the market comes from public water systems, sold back to consumers at 1000x the price of tap.

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Megan T. and Dan Abrams fistfight in Heaven

February 13th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in politics by Chris Pommier

The debate about SuperDelegates (touched on here and here on this blog) is heating up on the Web. Bloggers and pundits alike are constructing the narratives and counternarrtives at lightening speed. Will the future of the Democratic Party be determined on the ground by rank and file voters, or will it be decided in the proverbial “smoke-filled back rooms?” Are a majority of SuperDelegates beholden to the Clintons because they’ve been so influential, so powerful and so everywhere for so long? Or have the Clintons stepped on way too many Armani Spotted Pony Mules during their tenure?

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SuperDelegate SuperUpdate

February 7th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in News, politics by Chris Pommier

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