MN-GOV: Walz's chief of staff to transition to campaign [View all]

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Gov. Tim Walz’s closest advisor, who helped the second-term Democrat manage an array of crises and shepherd through progressive wins during the 2023 legislative session, will leave his government role to work for Walz’s reelection for an unprecedented third, four-year term.

Chris Schmitter, who has served as Walz’s chief of staff since he took office in 2019, will leave the governor’s office at the end of this month and become a senior advisor to Walz and his reelection campaign.

“When I first became governor, I set a goal of making Minnesota the best state for kids, and I tasked Chris with making that vision a reality,” Walz said in a statement Thursday. “Nobody had a bigger hand in driving Minnesota’s nation-leading child tax credit than Chris.”

Schmitter, a Rochester native, is Minnesota’s longest serving chief of staff to a governor in state history, the governor’s office said. He’s guided Walz through the pandemic, the police murder of George Floyd and its aftermath, a spike in crime, a national political run and the assassination of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and the manhunt that followed.




https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/walzs-chief-of-staff-to-transition-to-campaign/