I am no fan of Former Gov. McGeevey- all his sordid hook ups, etc. were inexcusable - but his estranged wife sure isn't living in reality if these demands are accurate. That equates to $672,000 a year. Hell hate no fury like a woman scorned, that is for sure. Especially if scorned for another man. Here are a few highlights from a Star-Ledger story (http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1185944279217440.xml&coll=1):
The bitter divorce case between former Gov. James E. McGreevey and his estranged wife took another angry turn yesterday, with lawyers for the warring couple sparring over the amount of support Dina Matos McGreevey is seeking.
McGreevey's lawyer, Matthew Piermatti II, touched off the latest dispute, saying the former first lady wanted $56,000 a month in alimony and other support to "continue in the lifestyle" to which she had grown accustomed in the governor's mansion.
The exchange came shortly after the Superior Court judge presiding over the divorce urged the McGreeveys to settle the case, citing the financial and emotional toll it might cause. "You folks do not have the money to try this case to conclusion," the judge, Karen Cassidy, told the pair, who did not speak during the hearing and who barely acknowledged each other. "Emotion should not drive this case. Anger should not drive this case."
But whether based on emotion or legal strategy, the venom has been flowing for months in legal papers. Matos McGreevey claims her husband used her like a political prop, marrying her to conceal his homosexuality, and calls him a disinterested and irresponsible father who exposed the couple's 5-year-old daughter, Jacqueline, to lurid art.
I certainly wish that Ms. McGreevey would not try to use their daughter as a weapon against him nonetheless. It is sad what mothers will do to their children trying to wound the former spouse.
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I fully agree that children should never be "used" by parents, but it happens all the time.
Alas, Ms. is the more sympathetic character is this tawdry ordeal of public laundering. Jim's "use" of his trophy wives while getting gay blow jobs, then "using" Dina as a prop in his "outing" ceremony (got "caught" confession, actually), blaming an Israeli for blackmailing his "job for a fuck" duplicity, pretty much destroys all the positive goodwill that Oprah and others have tried to build for GLBT.
There are very few individuals I loathe more contemptuously than McGreevey. It's one thing when one feels a need to hide from social opprobrium of being gay; it's another to USE so many people in his own self-absorbed distorted ambition to FUCK everyone, politically, morally, socially, and GLBT. NO single individual has set back GLBT in their quest for equality and a place at the table than this miserable "user" of everyone he can find for his perverse ambitions.
Frankly, I hope Dina takes him to the cleaners. Maybe Jim's b/f will realize what a price people have to pay for such abusers of others. When Jim wears an Episcopal collar, he sure as hell won't be blessing my animals in his screwed-up ambition of Zoological abuse of others. He must have a huge cock, or the tightest ass, or has learned to patronize his enablers, BUT McGreevey is the WORST example of a decent human being (after Bush and Cheney) I've witnessed in generations. He's worse than a WEASEL, he is Anita Bryant's CASE EXAMPLE of a homo-mess user and abuser that makes Dina's "child" use pale by comparison.
I would not let this asshole remove my garbage. "It is sad what mothers will do. . . ?" Michael? No gay man on earth would not do the same thing as Dina hopes to do -- with my full support and encouragement (MAKE the dishonest fraud PAY for USING everyone else for his own self-absorbed ambition. B/f has the cash, Dina has what?)
JIM is the VICTIMIZER, not the VICTIM. He ABUSED everyone, so he cannot now be the "victim." I strongly suggest you let this asshole's problems fade from GLBT memory, before I cut a check to support Dina in her case against this USER-ABUSER. Not even Saint Jude will take up his LOST CAUSE. His parading in a chasuble will be the FINAL straw. NO ONE HAS SET BACK GLBT interests more than this ABUSER. NO ONE.
Stephen,
I fully agree with your assessment of McGreevey. He used everyone around him for his own purposes.
The only benefit from his coming out - if it is a benefit - is that it showed that gays are everywhere and in all kinds of positions and occupations. We are not all the stereotypical nelly boys or drag queens our enemies like to paint us as.
I too have a hard time seeing him as a priest after his admitted tawdry past. He makes most of us look like the Virgin Mary in comparison.
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