Me, Governor? : : My Life in the Rough-and-Tumble World of New Jersey Politics / / Richard J. Codey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Codey, Richard J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 14 Photographs

And so, a new chapter in the life of Richard J. Codey, an undertaker's son born and bred in the Garden State, began on the night of August 12, 2004--he knew from that point his life would never be the same . . . and it hasn't been. His memoir is a breezy, humorous, perceptive, and candid chronicle of local and state government from a man who lived among political movers and shakers for more than three decades. Codey became governor of New Jersey, succeeding James McGreevey, who resigned following a homosexual affair--a shattering scandal and set of circumstances that were bizarre, even for the home state of the Sopranos. At once a political autobiography, filled with lively, incisive anecdotes that record how Codey restored respectability and set a record for good politics and good government in a state so often tarnished, this is also the story about a man and his family.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. “McGreevey’s Gay, I’m the New Governor” -- 2. The Undertaker’s Son: Death and Politics Go Together -- 3. The Give-and-Take of Politics -- 4. Mary Jo: Love at First Sight -- 5. Family -- 6. Sports in My Life -- 7. Politics Gets Very Dirty -- 8. My Crusade on Behalf of the Mentally Ill -- 9. State Senate President -- 10. Governor, Not Acting Governor -- 11. Keeping NFL Football in New Jersey -- 12. Bowing Out as Governor -- 13. The Past . . . and the Future? -- Index -- About the Authors