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Assembly lawyer, campaign staffer to Counsel’s office

January 10, 2018 1:52 am

A veteran lawyer for the State Assembly and a former clerk to Chief Justice Stuart Rabner will assume top posts in the Chief Counsel’s office when Phil Murphy becomes Governor next week. Murphy has named Kate McConnell and Parimal Garg...

Murphy service includes lobbyist’s prayer

January 8, 2018 2:35 am

An interfaith prayer service in honor of Gov.-elect Phil Murphy will include a prayer given by an influential Trenton lobbyist and Democratic strategist who is also an ordained interfaith minister. Pastor Idida Rodriguez is a partner at Essex County Democratic...

Evidence that Murphy isn’t superstitious

January 4, 2018 12:07 am

Phil Murphy is the first Governor to hold an inauguration day prayer service at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Trenton since Jim Florio did it in 1990. At least he didn’t pick the Princeton University Chapel, where Jim McGreevey and...