My reading of the news reports partly agrees with Ron's. I believe the resignation was definitely pre-emptive. Problem is, we don't know what the guv is trying to pre-empt.

He apparently has been under investigation by federal officials for financial shenanigans for awhile now. The shock wasn't so much that he resigned, as it was the reason he gave for resigning, in light of the building investigation against.

BTW, the financial shenanigans included him hiring his two largest campaign contributors, as I recall.

So, was he resigning to pre-empt a sexual harrassment suit? Or was he using the resignation using "the gay card" to pre-empt the announcement of a federal indictment on the financial wrongdoing, and hang onto the office until after the November election?

It is clear we don't know the whole story. However, it is just as clear that this was all worked out in advance with the Democratic party leaders in Jersey and at the national level, prior to his resignation, otherwise he wouldn't have resigned effective AFTER the November election.

I don't know how you define sleaze Ron, but this looks like the epitome of it to me.

But then, it IS Jersey.