Two decades after resigning as New Jersey’s governor in scandal and stunning the political world as he declared “I am a gay American,” Jim McGreevey is back on the campaign trail for the first time. He's running for mayor of Jersey City, the state’s second-largest city. He says he's running because he’s concerned that the city where he was born and has lived again since 2015 is at a “tipping point,” with pricy downtown high-rises driving housing costs higher, young people struggling to find employment and underperforming schools leaving children behind. Some of McGreevey’s opponents have seized on the scandal, arguing that his conduct as governor should disqualify him with voters.
