TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey Lt. Governor Sheila Oliver died this weekend while serving as acting governor of New Jersey. She assumed the role after Governor Phil Murphy left for his annual summer vacation at his private villa in Italy.
Days have passed, and the government keeps her cause of death a secret.
At this time, all we know is Oliver was admitted to the hospital on Monday with an ‘undisclosed illness’, and the next day, she was dead at the age of 71.
Her cause of death has yet to be revealed by the Murphy administration, and the reason for her hospital visit has remained a state secret. The only information given to the media by the administration was that it was a ‘sudden illness’ and that she could not carry out her duties as acting governor prior to her hospitalization.
On Thursday, Murphy returned from his vacation and ordered flags to fly at half-mast in her honor. She will be given a state funeral.
Now, rumors are beginning to swirl around the Statehouse regarding her death and her medical condition leading up to her death.
Matt Rooney, a Republican party political blogger, says New Jerseyeans have the right to know how the acting governor died. Rooney compared the late leader’s death to the coverup of the illness that plagues Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman.
“Shouldn’t the Media take the lead? Sadly, it’s unsurprising that they haven’t. Joe Biden’s health (and Kamala Harris’s competence) are regular topics of conversation in the political discourse. Still, there’s been quite a bit of pushback and, in some cases, outright lack of concern on the part of the legacy Media when the time arises to ask hard questions,” Rooney wrote. “Another glaring recent example of journalists failing to do their job can be found directly across the Delaware River: John Fetterman. Details of his true condition were deliberately kept from the public throughout the 2022 cycle, and now that we’ve seen him in action during Senate hearings, it’s not hard to figure out why they did it.”