Alex DeCroce, the longtime Republican leader in the Assembly, a man who had helped the governor get his start in politics, was dead.
This is a man, after all, who handpicked candidates in most of the county's legislative districts and helped Gov. Jon Corzine get his start in politics.
In the first season, Sanders books David Spade, a young standup he has helped get his start, only to discover that Spade is appearing on Jay Leno's "Tonight Show" first, doing the same jokes.
Unlike his two predecessors, Julian Ogilvie Thompson and Gavin Relly, Mr. Trahar was not a Rhodes scholar and did not get his start as a personal assistant to Harry F. Oppenheimer, the patriarch who died in September.
Dana White, the burly president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, which features ripped men and women punching, kicking, and grappling in an octagonal ring, told of how Trump helped him get his start, back in 2001.
One of the best directors to get his start in the last few years, Ying Liang, whose first feature, "Taking Father Home" I discuss in this clip, is unable to return home to China because of fear of arrest on political grounds.
