December 20, 2006 - 1:29pm

Source: Campbell up for Spitzer cabinet post

Bradley Campbell, who was James E. McGreevey's Commissioner of Environmental Protection, is on New York Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer's short list to head New York's Department of Environmental Conservation, according to a source with knowledge of Spitzer's transition.

Campbell worked at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and as Region 3 EPA Administrator during the Clinton administration and was living in Pennsylvania when then-Congressman Robert Menendez urged McGreevey to bring him to New Jersey.

The 45-year-old Campbell has been a partner at the West Orange law firm of Wolff and Samson since Governor Jon Corzine replaced him last January. Among his law partners is David Samson, who served in the McGreevey cabinet with Campbell and was Attorney General of New Jersey while Spitzer held the post in New York.

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*** It would be a great pick for Spitzer...Campbell was one of t


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It would be a great pick for Spitzer...Campbell was one of the most capable members of McGreevey's cabinet. A stand-up guy.

Of course, he's been a gov't employee for so many years, if he wanted to stay in the private sector and bank some $$$, I don't think anybody would be surprised.

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12/20/06 12:42 pm

Campbell's policy's have crippled NJ. The head of an organizati


Campbell's policy's have crippled NJ. The head of an organization such as NJDEP has to be more Nuetral. You might as well have put Jeff T of the Sierra Club as Commish during Campbell's tenure.

12/20/06 1:28 pm

Well, Brad certainly has the kind of arrogance that Spitzer seem


Well, Brad certainly has the kind of arrogance that Spitzer seems to be looking for.

12/20/06 3:37 pm