The controversy surrounding Brindle stems from his response to a staffer who wanted to acknowledge National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11. “Are you coming out?” Brindle wrote in an email, lamenting employees couldn’t celebrate the birthdays of George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.
Get politics news like this right to your inbox with the N.J. Politics newsletter. Add your email below and hit"subscribe"Chief Counsel Parimal Garg, Chief of Staff George Helmy, and Chief Ethics Officer Dominic Rota called Brindle to a meeting on Nov. 2 and presented him with a draft resignation letter that he refused to sign over the email with an “anti-gay” comment, according to Brindle’s lawsuit.
critical of “dark money” groups was published, according to the suit. The identities of donors who contribute to dark money political action committees do not have to be disclosed.Murphy, a Democrat, and the Democratic-controlled Legislature ultimately passed a law in April that allowed the governor to make one-time direct appointments to the board,