I’m in the midst of reading The Soprano State: New Jersey’s Culture of Corruption. It’s written by a couple of seasoned reporters from Gannett who have covered politics in Trenton for years. The book does an excellent job of describing the dirty dealings in Jersey from McGreevey’s appointment of an unqualified boytoy to the head of Homeland Defense to the behind-the-scenes political bosses who pull the strings to Corzine’s soft spot for Carla Katz, the head of the largest state union.

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