The lieutenant governor was very private about her health, the governor said.
And with her “showstopper of a resume” — including decades of public service and becoming the first Black woman in New Jersey to ascend to Assembly Speaker — choosing her as his running mate in his first run for governor in 2017 was “a no-brainer.”
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