The Strange Ex-Jesuit, Is Now Chief Of Staff To The New Governor Of New York

This short piece is from a longer interview from the far left-wing TV show Democracy Now.

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AMY GOODMAN: And finally, Juan, you also wrote about who will be the new secretary of the governor, the significance of this position, former Jesuit priest.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Yes. And, Liz, you’ve actually been dealing with him quite a bit now, Charles O’Byrne, who will become the chief staff person, I guess, the secretary of the governor, a former Jesuit priest and a former organizer for Howard Dean before he went to work for David Paterson. But this is obviously a lot bigger portfolio now than he expected when he went to work for the Lieutenant Governor. Your expectations of his performance?

SEN. LIZ KRUEGER: Well, Charles is an extraordinarily talented man.

He’s an attorney, as well as—you’re right—having been a Jesuit priest. And I think the combination of his training in both of those professions has served him well in being the chief of staff to David Paterson up until now. And yes, David takes an enormously large leap on Monday to be the new governor of New York State, and Charles O’Byrne also takes that leap. But as confident as I am in David, and I think all your other guests are, because he has an amazingly rapid learning curve, skill set, as well, I believe Charles also does. He has been working on the second floor with Lieutenant Governor Paterson since the first day of the Spitzer administration.

It is my understanding that he has been in on almost all of the senior meetings of the Governor and his people on behalf of David during all of this time. Link to the full interview (here)

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My previous post on Elliot Spitzer which included the former Jesuit Priest [ (here), (here), disturbing (here) and (here) ] Charles O'Byrne (here)