There is a real story in the personal and family tragedy surrounding James McGreevey’s decision to resign as New Jersey’s governor on Thursday. There’s also a story in the difficulties of someone being gay and holding high public office. But the bigger story here isn’t about Mr. McGreevey. It’s about how the elites of a major state, one with the nation’s second-highest per capita income and one of its most educated and skilled work forces, have allowed it to be so poorly governed by both parties over a span of decades.
There does seem to be a problem.