Less Moore on Byciewicz social media as “lifelong public servant” disappears after four days as LG’s chief of staff.

Tumult and confusion have taken center stage in the backwater that is Lieutenant Governor Susan Bysiewicz’s office. The Middletown Democrat’s new chief of staff is gone after a tenure of four unhappy days.

Brandon Moore’s brief run with Bysiewicz began with a posed photograph on the Senate dais—the perch from which the three-time candidate for governor presides over the upper chamber. Both Moore and Bysiewicz hailed his arrival on Team Bysiewicz with social media posts.

You will search in vain to find them anywhere but on Daily Ructions. Moore has been disappeared by his own hand and Bysiewicz’s.

Some say Bysiewicz staffers mounted a lightning strike revolt against Moore after a mere four days of his leadership. Others say a family health crisis prompted Moore’s departure. Ask yourself, is Bysiewicz so heedless of common human emotions that she would erase every trace of the fella she hired as her chief of staff as he confronted a family health crisis?

Moore was a key player in Nick Simmons’s bid for the State Senate last year. Bysiewicz appears to have failed in her own bid—-to get Democrats close to Governor Ned Lamont to urge the popular leader to leave office at the end of his second term.

Published September 4, 2025.