It didn't surprise me at all that he'd become a crusading politician. I said, he's got to be lying because nobody's this sincere. But he is. One of the first things he did was get new, clean uniforms for all the kids playing baseball. He said, you wear a new uniform you start to feel good about yourself.
Jersey City is a tough town politically.
They'll eat you up. But the mayor's doing all right. Bret had spent the evening shaking hands, schmoozing. In the parking lot, he said something to a man in a brown suit with slicked-back hair who had been hanging around Bret all evening. The man nodded, got into his car, and drove off.