{"id":90802,"date":"2026-01-06T06:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/90802\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T06:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:58:16","slug":"hoboken-mayor-elect-emily-jabbour-names-christian-duffy-as-her-chief-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/90802\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoboken Mayor-elect Emily Jabbour names Christian Duffy as her chief of staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hoboken Mayor-elect Emily Jabbour has named Christian Duffy, who served as a senior advisor for her campaign, as her chief of staff ahead of her January 15th swearing in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Christian-Duffy-e1767642784873.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96639\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Christian-Duffy-e1767642784873.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"360\"\/><\/a>Photo via LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>By John Heinis\/Hudson County View<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy to announce Christian Duffy as my chief of staff,\u201d Jabbour began in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristian has been a trusted ally and brings a wealth of government and political experience to this position. I am confident his presence in City Hall will help move Hoboken forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Duffy has spent over a decade working on political campaigns and in state government.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving his Master\u2019s degree in social work from Fordham University, he began his career as an organizer on then-Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer\u2019s re-election campaign in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>His experience has taken him all over the country, including Alaska, Nevada, Ohio and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>He served as the Hudson County Political Coordinator on Governor Phil Murphy\u2019s (D) re-election campaign in 2021, as well as chief of staff to both Assemblywoman Annette Quijano and state Senator Joe Cryan (both D-20).<\/p>\n<p>He also managed the successful congressional campaigns of U.S. Reps. Rob Menendez (D-8) and Herb Conaway (D-3) in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Duffy managed Assemblyman Vinnie Kearney\u2019s campaign, flipping the 21st Legislative District for Democrats for the first time in over 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am incredibly grateful to Mayor-Elect Jabbour for the privilege to serve as her Chief of Staff,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoboken is where my journey in politics began, and I\u2019m eager to get to work alongside Mayor-Elect Jabbour to build a City Hall that is more transparent, more collaborative, and more responsive to our residents.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hoboken Mayor-elect Emily Jabbour has named Christian Duffy, who served as a senior advisor for her campaign, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[17308,98,100,99,43067,17310,36655,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-90802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-2025-hoboken-mayoral-race","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-christian-duffy","tag-emily-jabbour","tag-hoboken-city-council","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}