New Jersey politicos may’ve noticed a familiar face at today’s first speech delivered by newly-minted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson:
Matt Mowers.
While Mowers’s exact role wasn’t initially clear, it’s clearly the latest turn in a precipitous ascent for the 20-something veteran New Jersey operative.
Earlier in his career, Mowers served as executive director for the Bergen GOP, worked in Christie’s administration in Trenton, and was a staffer for his 2013 re-election campaign. Shortly after Christie was re-elected, he left New Jersey to become executive director of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee.
In 2014, he was one of about a dozen Christie aides who testified before a joint state legislative committee that investigated the George Washington Bridge scandal surrounding the governor’s administration. He testified at the Bridgegate trial, too, in 2016, shortly after joining the Trump presidential campaign.
Mowers isn’t the only Christie World figure close to the Trump center of power despite the Governor’s own fall from political grace; former Christie senior staffer and campaign manager, Bill Stepien, is the new White House Political Director.
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