Monday, November 08, 2004
Read that Governor McGreevey is moving to Rahway when he leaves office next week. It's a good place for him to land. Rahway is a familiar town, the mayor an old friend; if he's even recognized, McGreevey won't be pestered when he goes to Dunkin' Donuts or 7-11, as he inevitably will.
Does it help to know a Mayor? You bet. Back in 1994 or 95, my then-girlfriend was suddenly hit with a yeast infection, so on our way back from somewhere we stopped at the all-night Pathmark around midnight on a Sunday. But the over-the-counter meds aisle was locked up with a security gate, which meant getting back in the car & driving up the road to 24 hour drugstore. She was in agony, on the verge of crying. Rahway Mayor Jim Kennedy just happened to be in line at the store buying - if I recall - milk & breakfast cereal, & with a quick appeal to him the gate was unlocked & my girlfriend got her Monistat cream.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Does it help to know a Mayor? You bet. Back in 1994 or 95, my then-girlfriend was suddenly hit with a yeast infection, so on our way back from somewhere we stopped at the all-night Pathmark around midnight on a Sunday. But the over-the-counter meds aisle was locked up with a security gate, which meant getting back in the car & driving up the road to 24 hour drugstore. She was in agony, on the verge of crying. Rahway Mayor Jim Kennedy just happened to be in line at the store buying - if I recall - milk & breakfast cereal, & with a quick appeal to him the gate was unlocked & my girlfriend got her Monistat cream.
