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Dear Governor McGreevey,

Good morning, Governor. Here's a briefing for your first day on the job as America's first openly gay governor.

On the job, governor. As in at work. I know you've been through a lot with everything that led up to yesterday's press conference, and from what I hear you may have to devote some time to dealing with legal matters, but hey: you're the one who said you'd remain governor until Nov. 15, right? And as a footsoldier in the New Jersey Democratic Party, I do appreciate that. So keep governing until then, please, just like we elected you to do.

A couple of things to remember at all times:

a) You were honest yesterday. Keep on being honest and you'll be able to spin that to your advantage: the nation's first openly gay governor, the nation's first openly honest governor. See? You have no privacy left now anyhow, so don't waste any more energy trying to hide anything.

b) You are now a national, even international public figure. Before you came out, you were just another New Jersey politician. Now everybody in America knows your face, your name, and that you're gay, even if they know nothing else.

Now that you're out, you might want to reconsider some of your previous positions. For example, do you still believe, as you said time and time again when you were trying to pass for heterosexual, that marriage should be reserved for opposite-sex couples? If so, could you explain why you believe that people like you should be treated as second-class citizens? Wait -- before you answer, keep in mind that you have a new constituency now. From now until Nov. 15, you are the highest-ranking openly gay public official in the nation, and one of the highest-ranking in the world. So seize the day. No, no -- I don't mean putting pals on the payroll. Do your job and represent your new national constituency while you still can. And by the way, it may not technically be nepotism when you put a significant-other-to-whom-you-re-not-legally-married on the state payroll, but it's still wrong. So -- what's your position on same-sex marriage now? Speak right up, and hurry before they turn the TV cameras elsewhere. The rest of your political career, if any, may depend upon your answer.

But not just that, governor. You see, once you're not governor anymore, it may not be so easy for you to have a significant other from another country. You probably wouldn't be able to get him a job, and permission to have that job, by pulling strings where you work. He might not even be able to get permission to live here, so you might have to move to his country, where you might have even more trouble getting permission to work, or even live. That's because we don't have equal marriage rights in this country. Now if things had turned out differently in this scandal -- say, if your wife had found out about the affair and just ended the marriage quietly, then you could have purchased a mail-order bride from a poor country to serve in her stead. (For some reason, the religious right and other homophobes don't see the right to buy a bride as a threat to anybody's marriage.) That domestic partnership thing you came up with didn't do anything to help couples of the same sex but different nationalities, like you and the guy mentioned in all those news stories.

So are you now in favor of equal marriage rights?

Oops -- too late. The Republicans are holding a press conference demanding that you resign immediately so they can run someone for the job Nov. 2. So don't just hold the position, governor. Stay on the job.

posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @12:04 PM

13.8.04