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CT News Junkie | Donovan Lands Job With CEA
by Christine Stuart
| Dec 16, 2014 CTNewsJunkie.com
Posted to: Campaign Finance, Education, Election 2012, Smoke Shop Investigation, Donovan, State Capitol
Former
Speaker of the House Chris Donovan, who has struggled to find employment since
losing a 2012 Congressional primary to U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty, has landed a
job with the Connecticut
Education Association.
Mark
Waxenberg, executive director of the CEA, said Monday in a phone interview that
Donovan will start was a field representative in January. As a representative,
he will negotiate and enforce contracts for 1,500 teachers in Trumbull,
Milford, and Stratford.
Waxenberg
said Donovan was interviewed by a committee of eight to 12 teachers, who make
the recommendation to the executive board. There were six vacancies for field
representatives when Donovan applied. And when it came to landing the job it
wasn’t his legislative experience that impressed the teachers.
“It was his
experience working with the community college system and his rich history of
that,” Waxenberg said.
Donovan was
a union organizer in the community college system during part of his tenure in
the legislature.
Waxenberg
said the committee believed that — based on his background and experience — he
could do the job well. And just like any other new employee, Donovan will be
subject to a probationary period, he added.
Donovan has
been a union organizer since the 1970s. He was elected to represent Meriden in 1992 and
became Speaker of the House in 2009. He continued to serve in the General
Assembly when he ran to represent the 5th Congressional District in 2012.
His
congressional bid was derailed when federal prosecutors charged two of his
campaign aides with conspiracy to hide the source of $27,500 in campaign
donations. Donovan was never charged and federal prosecutors released a
statement earlier this year letting the public know they didn’t plan to charge
him.
Seven of the
eight men who were convicted by a jury or pleaded guilty to the conspiracy are
in prison.
According to
records with the Federal Elections Commission, Donovan is still working toward
paying off about $142,000 in campaign debt. There’s no time limit on how long
he has to pay it off under FEC rules.
Donovan is
the second former lawmaker to land a job with the CEA. Last month, the organization announced that
outgoing Senate President Donald Williams would join the organization as its
new deputy policy director.
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