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Gov. Phil Murphy’s longtime strategist, Brendan Gill, apparently wants us to believe this story: He’s worked full time as an Essex County commissioner for the past seven years to qualify for more than $220,000 in health benefits from taxpayers – all while being Murphy’s campaign manager, running a dark money group spending millions to promote Murphy’s agenda and representing big clients with his own public affairs firm. What a feat. You see, since 2010 elected officials must work 35 hours a week to qualify for the health benefits, with a few exceptions who were grandfathered in. But an investi…

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