Anthony Coscia

Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa Jackson remains the leading candidate to become Jon Corzine's Chief of Staff when Bradley Abelow leaves.  Speculation of Abelow's departure has persistsed for the last six months, but sources close to the administration say the former Goldman Sachs partner will most certainly be gone by the end of the year.  Democratic insiders say that Maggie Moran, Corzine's politically savvy Deputy Chief of Staff for the last four years (and State Director when he was in the Senate) will leave state government to become manage the Governor's re-election campaign. 

SARLO TO SUPPORT PORT AUTHORITY MOVE TO HELP TETERBORO

TRENTON - Senator Paul Sarlo today said he will sponsor legislation to authorize the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to purchase Stewart International Airport in New Windsor, N.Y.

Senator Sarlo said he was grateful to Senate President Richard J. Codey for agreeing to his request to be the prime sponsor of the legislation needed to authorize the Port Authority's plan to purchase the New York airport. Senator Codey will co-sponsor Senator Sarlo's bill.

The Political Insider, a weekly column on Hudson County politics in the Jersey Journal, reports that Bernard Kenny, the Senate Majority Leader and Hudson County Democratic Chairman, could be in line for a spot in Governor Jon Corzine's administration -- as President of the Board of Public Utilities (to replace Jeanne Fox) or as Chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (to replace Anthony Coscia.) If he seeks re-election in 2007, Kenny faces a likely challenge in the Democratic from Assemblyman Brian Stack, the Mayor of Union City.