The cspan bus tour, the 50 state capitals continues. And the cspan bus tour 50 state capitols continues. Today were in historic trenton, new jersey. First we want to talk to former governor jim mcgreavy who served from 2002 until he resigned in 2004. He joins us from the cspan bus and governor, you recently formed a Nonprofit Corporation called the new jersey Reentry Corporation. Whats its focus . The focus is to understand that for numerous individuals coming back from prison or county jail, that they need to be assisted to reclaim their lives and what we do is work with exoffenders, whether in providing for training and employment, housing, Addiction Treatment, also Legal Services to help clean up, if you will the legal wreckage of their past lives, addressing Child Support and most importantly, linking people to a federally qualified Health Center so they have the Necessary Health health care. We assist people, literally in making their lives hole and insuring working to insure they
Governor jim mcgreavy who served from 2002 until he resigned in 2004. He joins us from the cspan bus and governor, you recently formed a Nonprofit Corporation called the new jersey Reentry Corporation. Whats its focus . The focus is to understand that for numerous individuals coming back from prison or county jail, that they need to be assisted to reclaim their lives and what we do is work with exoffenders, whether in providing for training and employment, housing, Addiction Treatment, also Legal Services to help clean up, if you will the legal wreckage of their past lives, addressing Child Support and most importantly, linking people to a federally qualified Health Center so they have the Necessary Health health care. We assist people, literally in making their lives hole and insuring working to insure they lead healthy lives. And recidivism rate is employment rate is 62 . And were grateful for the leadership of steve sweeney, governor christie. This is an issue in new jersey that has
campaign volunteer. and even dick cody, taking on dick cody. now, dick cody is a bear knuckled practitioner of essex county politic, but he s a very popular figure in new jersey politics. and a lot of voters in new jersey have a warm regard for him for stabilizing the state after the down fall of jim mcgreevey. and you mentioned alan rosenthal is almost defied by members of both parties for his knowledge, scholarly knowledge, his fairness throughout the years in serving on commissions and boards. so it s not so that s the difference about chris christie and how he s operated. i think what s really interesting, i think, it s deliberate. i think he s tried to send this message that, i am not to be crossed with. i am not to be fooled with, and i think it s had a very and he s used that very effectively. charlie, i have to ask you,
that s not the way he has governed in new jersey. he can t possibly understand why anybody who worked for him would think that s what the governor would want them to do. do you remember jim mcgreavey, former governor of new jersey forced to resign in the middle of a sex scandal in 2004. remember, i am a gay american? when he stepped down as governor, new jersey senate president at the time, a man named richard cody, he ascended to the job. he became the new governor. richard cody served out the rest of jim mcgreavy s term and decided to return to the state senate. in 2011 once back in the state senate, richard codey got into a battle with the newly elected chris christie. he wanted to block two of governor christie s nominees. that caused the two of them to effecti effectively go to political war. chris christie railed against richard codey for being, quote,
he told kyra phillips he s eager to testify in congress about the benghazi relationship to clear that up. that s related presumably to the conspiracy theories of general petraeus resignation that are populating the conservative media. quote, it s obvious someone was out to silence petraeus. quote, in the modern era, office holders with forgiving spouses simply do not resign from powerful jobs because of a temporary noncriminal consensual adult sexual liaison. said elliot spitzer. i mean, anthony weiner. i mean, jim mcgreavy. none of them. it was said by a man named andrew napolitano. david petraeus resignation to him could not possibly be about some dumb affair. nobody resigns from office for having an affair. there must be a leftist government cover-up going on. the white house is trying to