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McGreevey's Truth

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Friday, August 13, 2004

NJ Gov. James McGreevey, a Democrat, said he would resign in November, admitting he had an affair with another man. Senate President Richard Codey, also a Democrat, is in line to become acting governor. We'll talk about the implication of McGreevey's surprise announcement. Tomas Cahill on the ancient Greek Olympics, Fred Dicker and Andrea Bernstein on Albany’s latest budget ever, and Ben Schott’s Food and Drink Miscellany.

McGreevey's Truth

Bob Hennelly, WNYC New Jersey correspondent on Governor Jim McGreevey's outing and resignation
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Liz Shalet, Employment Discrimination Attorney (mainly sexual harassment victims) and partner at Lipman and Plesur
» Governor McGreevey's Resigns
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Lipman and Plesur

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My Big Fat Greek Olympics

Thomas Cahill, historian and author, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (Nan Talese Books, 2003), on the Olympics and the Greeks
» http://www.randomhouse.com/features/cahill/

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Budging Budgets

Andrea BernsteinWNYC Political Reporter, on the Legislature's late passage of the state budget and the consequences of her documentary on New York Dept. of Correction officers and Fred Dicker, State Editor for the New York Post
» The New York Post
» Andrea Bernstein's Investigative ...

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Schott to the Heart

Ben Schott, Author, Schott's Food and Drink Miscellany (Bloomsbury 2004), on odd and interesting food and drink facts
» Schott's Miscellany

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Jim Dandy

OK, we have now all duly noted that Jim McGreevey's campaign slogan in 2001 was "straight talk"...But how long has this been going on?

Gordon Bishop of the Atlantic Highlands Herald insinuated it last May.

WNYC's own Bob Hennelly told us today:

"I will say that I was told ...

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