Office of the Mayor
"Facing the Future Together"
On my first morning as mayor, the sun was out - and so was I, walking the streets of a city I've loved and had been part of all my life. With my family as a boy, I
romped on the beach, swam in the Atlantic and wolfed
down sandwiches from my uncle's delicatessen. After law school, I returned
to Long Branch, rented my first
apartment and began practicing law, with no thought of
ever involving myself in politics.
Nevertheless, in 1984, when I walked into the headquarters of Walter Mondale's
presidential campaign and offered to work in his behalf, one of the volunteers
asked if I was interested in running for office. "You can't be serious," I replied,
but at his suggestion, I worked on a local campaign and then joined a successful
effort to save part of a local nature area from development (it's now a park). I was irretrievably bitten by the political bug.
In 1986, I ran for a seat on the city council, and although I lost, I found it to be
the most compelling thing I had ever done. So, in 1990, I ran for mayor and won.
However, my experience on the council was not what I had imagined it would be.
Instead it was..... Read more of Mayor Adam Schneider's published
article