“It’s important to take responsibility and do the next right thing.”Īfter leaving office, McGreevey founded the New Jersey Reentry Corporation, which provides job training, counseling and many other services to people who are released from prison and returning to communities they may have left decades before. “I was imperfect and I’ll always be imperfect,” McGreevey, 66, said at the start of the video, which shows him watching a portion of his resignation announcement. He announced in August 2004 that he was “a gay American” and acknowledged having an extramarital affair with a male staffer. McGreevey, a Democrat, is a former Woodbridge Township mayor who was elected governor in 2002. He made the announcement in a video posted online and planned to formally launch his campaign with a news conference later in the day. Jim McGreevey announced Thursday that he will seek the mayor’s office in Jersey City in 2025.

(AP) - The nation’s first openly gay governor is looking to re-enter politics nearly 20 years after he left.įormer New Jersey Gov.