‘You gotta know when your time is up’

NJ SEED
Jan 13
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By Brent Johnson | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

January 12, 2026 | nj.com

Eight years ago, I sat down in a Trenton office building with the man who was about to become the next New Jersey governor: an openly liberal, dad-joke-spouting, onetime aspiring musical theater actor from Massachusetts turned wealthy Wall Street executive and diplomat named Phil Murphy.

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