Senior phil murphy advisor says governor will impose vaccine mandate after election, project veritas exposes

Senior Phil Murphy advisor says Governor will impose vaccine mandate after election, Project Veritas exposes

October 25, 2021

TRENTON, NJ – James O’Keefe and his controversial Project Veritas announced this weekend that it will be releasing bombshell hidden camera recorded video from inside New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s closest advisors.

On Monday, O’Keefe released the first video of his expose of Phil Murphy. O’Keefe claimed a senior advisor to Murphy said the governor will indeed impose a statewide COVID-19 vaccination mandate once he is re-elected next Tuesday.

Wendy Martinez is the CEO of Atabey Consulting Group LLC, Government/Public Affairs and a senior advisor on Phil Murphy’s Restart and Recovery Advisory Council’s social services and faith-based advisory committee.

When asked if Phil Murphy would implement vaccination mandates like the ones rolled out by California Governor Gavin Newsom, Martinez said, yes, right after the election.

“He [Murphy] is going to do it [COVID vaccine mandate], but he couldn’t do it before the elections. Because of the independents and the undecided.”

Martinez noted that independent and undecided voters would not pull the lever for Murphy if he rolled out the mandate before the election.

“Because they’re into all that shit,” Martinez added. “My rights. My shit. And they don’t care if they kill everybody.”

When asked again if Murphy will mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for all New Jerseyans after the election, Martinez confirmed, “He will. But right now is about him winning. It will be fine.”

We reached out to Governor Murphy campaign spokespersons Jerrel Harvey and Rachel Buccino, but did not receive an immediate response. We will update this story if the Murphy campaign responds.

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