Governor-elect Dan Malloy announced today that Colleen Flanagan, the Communications Director for his transition, will assume the job fulltime come January. A little about Colleen’s background from the press release issued today:
Flanagan began her career as a press aide for the Connecticut Senate Democratic Caucus. She left Connecticut in 2006 to move to Washington, DC and worked as a press secretary for Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), eventually assuming the role of Communications Director. On his Presidential Campaign, Flanagan was Senator Dodd’s National Press Secretary. She left Senator Dodd’s office in 2008 to move to North Carolina and work as Communications Director for Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC), who defeated Senator Elizabeth Dole. In 2009, she returned home to Connecticut to help the Connecticut Democratic Party with their communications outreach efforts, where she eventually finished the 2010 cycle as a consultant to the Party.
Colleen joins a long list of luminaries who have held that position (we’re too timid to list them as we’ll surely leave out someone). We wish her the best.
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