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State House regular Matt Auten has a new job.

After five years of working for environmental advocacy groups -- most recently Environment Rhode Island -- Auten has been tapped by Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts as her senior policy analyst.

Auten, 28, is among the few dozen State House lobbyists who patrol the marble hallways most legislative days during the session. Now he'll be in the State House full time.

He will start in Roberts' first-floor office on Sept. 15 at a salary of $51,493 a year, according to Roberts' spokesman Michael Tanaka.

"We're not adding a staffer, but filling an existing position recently vacated by Eli Zupnick," said Tanaka. As reported earlier in this blog, former senior policy analyst Zupnick last month left Roberts' office to work on Sen. Barack Obama's Washington state presidential campaign.

Auten, in an e-mail to friends and media, noted that he "is honored to have the opportunity" to work on Roberts' staff.

"I had the opportunity to work extensively with Lt. Governor Roberts on identity theft legislation and energy efficiency legislation during her tenure as a state senator and was always impressed by her work ethic, integrity and principles," Auten wrote.

 Tags  Environment Rhode Island Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts Matt Auten

Comments

Joe Ouellette said:

That's a hefty salary. Roberts could be saving the state money by eliminating that position.

Link | September 7, 2008 5:59 PM
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