View PDF | | The Lights Went Out in GeorgiaGeorgeMay 1998This story for the short-lived but excellent national political magazine George (edited by John F. Kennedy Jr.) marked the first time the former inamorata of then-gubernatorial front-runner Mike Bowers told her story. She wanted to set the record straight, she said -- theirs was not a brief and clandestine office fling, as he implied in public statements, but a 15-year affair during which she believed him to be living separately from his wife. She also says he promised to marry her. Bowers, the state's former attorney general, was well-known as a fierce defender of Georgia's laws, particularly its century-old sodomy statutes. |
