A state judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit the longtime leader of New Jersey’s election money watchdog agency filed against Gov. Phil Murphy seeking to overturn a controversial new law revamping the state’s campaign finance rules. Jeff Brindle, then the executive director of the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, sued both Murphy and the state in April over the Election Transparency Act, a law supporters say will improve how money is regulated in elections but critics say defangs the commission and actually weakens transparency. In the suit, Brindle argued the law was illegal spe…