{"id":2827,"date":"2004-08-13T13:30:40","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T20:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/08\/new-york-daily-news-ideas-opinions-errol-louis-just-another-jersey-pol\/"},"modified":"2004-08-13T13:30:40","modified_gmt":"2004-08-13T20:30:40","slug":"new-york-daily-news-ideas-opinions-errol-louis-just-another-jersey-pol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/13\/new-york-daily-news-ideas-opinions-errol-louis-just-another-jersey-pol\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sopranos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe McGreevey story is starting to sound like an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/ideas_opinions\/story\/221523p-190400c.html\">episode from The Sopranos:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>McGreevey&#8217;s new pose as a gutsy, brutally honest politician seems absurd. He was named repeatedly last month in a 47-page federal indictment charging one of the governor&#8217;s pals with extorting $40,000 in bribes and campaign contributions from a dairy farmer in Middlesex County, McGreevey&#8217;s home turf. <\/p>\n<p>Charles Kushner, McGreevey&#8217;s largest contributor, was indicted last month on federal charges of fund-raising violations, as well as conspiracy and obstruction. William Watley, McGreevey&#8217;s commerce secretary, quit last month when it came to light that he steered state money to a company in which he had a stake. <\/p>\n<p>Two of McGreevey&#8217;s top aides &#8211; his counsel, Paul Levinsohn, and his chief of staff, Gary Taffet &#8211; resigned last year under a cloud.<\/p>\n<p>McGreevey&#8217;s undoing appears to have sprung from a sex-and-patronage deal gone bad: Apparently, a secret gay lover on the public payroll decided to sue and\/or blackmail the governor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dirty politicians, sex, bribery, and blackmail: just another day in the life of the New Jersey Democratic Party machine.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The McGreevey story is starting to sound like an episode from The Sopranos: McGreevey&#8217;s new pose as a gutsy, brutally honest politician seems absurd. He was named repeatedly last month in a 47-page federal indictment charging one of the governor&#8217;s pals with extorting $40,000 in bribes and campaign contributions from a dairy farmer in Middlesex &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/13\/new-york-daily-news-ideas-opinions-errol-louis-just-another-jersey-pol\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Sopranos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-JB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}