If it hasn't already arrived, the moment is fast approaching when David Paterson, who now trails Andrew Cuomo by 50 points in a 2010 Democratic primary match-up, realizes that his dream of winning election to a full gubernatorial term is a lost cause.
And, given the disastrous turn his stint as acting governor Read More
A week ago, on the eve of Kirsten Gillibrand’s appointment to the United States Senate, I wrote that David Paterson was making a smart move in spurning Andrew Cuomo because, in essence, the attorney general wouldn’t have the nerve to challenge him in the 2010 gubernatorial primary.
As of today, I still believe Read More
Rob Andrews, the South Jersey congressman who is challenging Senator Frank R. Lautenberg in New Jersey’s June Democratic primary, just appointed his campaign chairman: Michael Murphy, the stepson of former Governor Richard J. Hughes (who served two terms from 1961 to 1969) and himself a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1997.
Murphy is Read More
Here is former NJ Governor Jim McGreevey about to sign a copy of his book after speaking to the Stonewall Democrats at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center in Manhattan yesterday.
Now that he’s out of office with no plans to return, I asked him what he thought of the Democratic gains Read More
By the time former New Jersey Governor James McGreevey took the podium to make his spectacular resignation speech a little over two years ago—the one where he declared to a room of at least publicly stunned reporters, aides and family members that he was a “gay American”—he’d already made a mess of New Jersey’s government. Read More
New Jersey’s Democratic elite has developed a well-worn reputation for cockiness.
And for good reason: Since 1972, only two Republicans—Tom Kean Sr. and Christine Todd Whitman, each elected and re-elected governor—have won statewide elections in New Jersey, and only once did their victory margin exceed one percentage point.
But cockiness also explains the predicament that Read More
New Jersey’s Democratic elite has developed a well-worn reputation for cockiness.
And for good reason: Since 1972, only two Republicans—Tom Kean Sr. and Christine Todd Whitman, each elected and re-elected governor—have won statewide elections in New Jersey, and only once did their victory margin exceed one percentage point.
But cockiness also explains the Read More
By the time former New Jersey Governor James McGreevey took the podium to make his spectacular resignation speech a little over two years ago—the one where he declared to a room of at least publicly stunned reporters, aides and family members that he was a “gay American”—he’d already made a mess of New Jersey’s government. Read More
I’m not sure it qualifies as politics-related at this point, but in case you missed it and you’re still at all curious… here’s Jim McGreevey on Oprah.
– Azi Paybarah
Speaking of New Jersey governors, it seems that Jim McGreevey has made his way deep enough into the popular consciousness that he’s become a cheap laugh-line in a Daffy’s ad campaign.
(via Gawker)
