 "When the well-respected and honorable City Councilwoman Marge Patterson dies, her longtime opponent, the wily Mayor Elizabeth Chardin, is eager to replace Patterson with a stooge. The mayor thinks she s found the perfect candidate -- Jim Doyle, Patterson s ex-husband and small-time grifter. But the mayor finds she s bitten off more than the can chew when Doyle decides to play the game of politics by his own rules and becomes a  man of the people. "