New Jersey Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, who is currently serving as acting governor while Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy is out of the state, has been taken to a hospital for an undisclosed medical issue.
, 71, was taken to Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston and is unable to carry out the duties of acting governor, Murphy’s spokesperson Mahen Gunaratna said in a statement Monday. Under the state constitution, Democratic Senate President Nicholas Scutari will serve as acting governor.Murphy’s office has said he’s out of the country on a family vacation in Italy, where he owns a home., a Democrat, has served as the state’s second lieutenant governor since 2018.
In 2010, she became the first African-American woman to serve as speaker of the state Assembly in the state’s history.
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