Christie’s Chief of Staff Quits for a Hospital Job.
The chief of staff to Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey is leaving his job to work in the private sector, an indication of how the scandal surrounding the closing of access lanes to the George Washington Bridge last year continues to drag on the administration.
Kevin O’Dowd, the chief of staff and a close lieutenant of Mr. Christie’s since his days as United States attorney, said on Friday that he would resign to become an executive at Cooper Hospital in Camden. Cooper’s chairman, George E. Norcross III, is the state’s most powerful Democrat, and his crossover support for Mr. Christie has been crucial in delivering the governor the bipartisan legislative accomplishments that established him as a star among national Republicans.
Mr. Christie had intended to nominate Mr. O’Dowd as state attorney general shortly before the bridge scandal exploded in January, when emails were revealed showing that a top administration official had worked with Christie loyalists at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to close three access lanes to the bridge in September 2013. For four days, the closings jammed the borough of Fort Lee, whose mayor had declined to endorse the governor’s re-election bid.
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led to this development? The fingerprints of Norcross & Sweeney are all over this. Sweeney thinks he's going to be the next governor.
You can trust him to keep his mouth shut and I highly respect that quality in a person!
