NJ’s McGreevey resigns, admitting gay affair

“My truth is that I am a gay American,” McGreevey told journalists at a packed news conference, asking forgiveness from his wife who stood beside him during the announcement.
McGreevey said his resignation would take effect on Nov. 15.
“Shamefully, I engaged in adult consensual affairs with another man, which violates my bonds of matrimony,” the married father of two said. “It was wrong, it was foolish, it was inexcusable.”
McGreevey, a popular governor who has been fighting allegations of corruption, has a long-standing record of interest in Irish and Irish American issues.