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...This was not a sexual relationship. It was a very affectionate relationship, and I'm not trying to define when affection ends and sex begins." DNC chairman Roy Romer,describing the nature of his 16-year relationship with a woman 18 years his junior...
...Friday, Romer acknowledged a "very affectionate relationship" with Betty Jane ("B.J.") Thornberry, 51, once his deputy chief of staff in Denver and now at the D.N.C. Beside him as he confessed was his wife of 45 years. Beatrice Romer insisted that Roy had told her about Thornberry "from the beginning" and that "it has not affected our marriage or our family." Several of their seven grown children later spoke up to agree...
Insight's editors claim they have obtained "confidential records," along with photographs and videotapes. Though the magazine doesn't identify its sources, R.W. Peterson, a Denver private detective, took credit for the video. According to the magazine, a scene taped on July 22, 1995, shows Romer greeting Thornberry, a divorce, at a Washington-area airport: they kiss and embrace in his car. On another occasion the camera catches them kissing in the woods outside a Virginia restaurant. The magazine says they later went to a house in Washington and were not seen leaving until the next morning...
...Romer strongly denied the first rumors of the affair in 1990. Last week his language was more Clintonesque. "There are problems of relationship that arise in most American families," he said. "[The connection to Thornberry] is not a sexual relationship, as people know it, but it is a very affectionate relationship. Affair is a word you have to interpret...
Democrats speculate that the surveillance may have been financed at the time by political enemies trying to scare Romer off from a Senate run. For now, even if Romer wanted to resign as D.N.C. chairman, it would be tricky politically. People might ask, If Romer had to quit because of a sex scandal, why shouldn't Clinton...