Daddy Kean in Print

by: Thurman Hart

Fri Jul 14, 2006 at 07:55:14 AM EDT

No, it isn't a joke, it's a book launch.  Daddy Kean, it seems, has a biographer and a book company that has chosen to doom their book by announcing its release in Jersey City. 

Daddy Kean pined for the good ol' days of yore:

"When I was governor, the Democrats and Republicans would work together," Kean said. "There wasn't the same partisanship there is now."

Of course, there isn't any connection with launching the book at this point in his son's doomed Senatorial campaign.  Nope.  Nor is there any connection with doing it in Hudson County where his son will get maybe 1% of the vote if he's lucky.  Nope.  That's all just a coincidence.

But the truest words of the Tom Kean, Junior debacle were spoken by the author of the biography himself:

"We signed the contract for this book in 2001," he said. "Junior was nowhere near politics at that time."

Funny.  Some say he's still "nowhere near politics" at THIS time.