HOBOKEN, NJ (AP/WINS) -- Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano's home Saturday, demanding his resignation. Demonstrators carried signs bearing slogans such as "Go to Jail, Not City Hall".
Glenn Schuck reports
Even by the standards of corruption-plagued New Jersey, the arrest of a young mayor on the job less than a month is surprising.
Voters might have asked: How could Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano, no grizzled politician but a 32-year-old lawyer with a promising political career, allegedly agree to accept $25,000 in bribes after watching so many politicians go to jail for selling their office?
But Stanley Renshon, a psychoanalyst and political science professor at the City University of New York, says it's really not that surprising.
"Politics has a lot of temptation because it has to do with power. People are attracted to the power. Ambition is like a loose canon, it can be dangerous,'' Renshon said.
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