{"id":5084973,"date":"2016-02-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlatinonews.com\/new-havens-joseph-rodriguez-leaving-city-hall-to-work-for-blumenthal-again\/"},"modified":"2016-02-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T05:00:00","slug":"new-havens-joseph-rodriguez-leaving-city-hall-to-work-for-blumenthal-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/2016\/02\/15\/new-havens-joseph-rodriguez-leaving-city-hall-to-work-for-blumenthal-again\/","title":{"rendered":"New Haven\u2019s Joseph Rodriguez Leaving City Hall To Work For Blumenthal Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/em>
\n 
\nJoseph Rodriguez will again be commuting to Hartford to work in the office of U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal.<\/span><\/a>
\nRodriguez was a research aide and outreach worker in the senator\u2019s Hartford office for 3\u00bd years before he was tapped by Mayor Toni Harp to be her liaison with the Board of Alders starting in August 2014.
\n
\nHe has decided to return to Blumenthal\u2019s office and will hold the position of deputy director in that office.
\n
\nBlumenthal, D-Conn., on Friday said he was happy for Rodriguez\u2019s return.
\n“He was\u00a0heartbroken when he left and I\u2019m ecstatic that he is returning,” Blumenthal said.
\n
\nThe senator called Rodriguez “a natural leader,” who has “great people skills,” as well insight into policy issues.
\n
\nHe said the experience he has gotten working in New Haven only adds to his abilities.
\n
\nRodriguez, 28, will be working in constituent services, which Blumenthal called “the bread and butter of my office.” He said no matter the problem, they go to bat for residents.
\n
\n“He does that very tenaciously and tirelessly,” Blumenthal said.
\n
\nRodriguez was an alder from Fair Haven for two terms from 2008 to 2011 in New Haven and is currently the chairman of the Connecticut Hispanic Caucus.
\n
\nRodriguez said he will miss working in the city, but he is excited to rejoin Blumenthal\u2019s office where previously he worked on small business programs and Latino outreach, among other things.
\n
\nHe said he plans to work through Feb. 26 in his alder liaison job so he can help with the budget preparation in New Haven that is due on March 1. He will report to Blumenthal\u2019s office on Feb. 29.
\n
\nWhile Rodriguez is leaving, Michael Harris is back working in the administration as a special assistant to the mayor assigned to lobby the General Assembly for the city.
\n
\nHarris had the aldermanic liaison job for seven months before Rodriguez took it.
\n
\nAt that time, he also worked with the state\u2019s delegation watching bills of interest to New Haven and got to participate on a number of projects, including the administration\u2019s programs addressing homelessness, as well as development of the budget and reaching out to at-risk with Youth Services Director Jason Bartlett.
\n
\nTo read full article: http:\/\/www.nhregister.com\/general-news\/20160212\/new-havens-joseph-rodriguez-leaving-city-hall-to-work-for-blumenthal-again<\/em>
\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0   Joseph Rodriguez will again be commuting to Hartford to work in the office of U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[576,986,987],"tags":[1025],"ppma_author":[565],"class_list":["post-5084973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracypolitics","category-ma-lifestyle","category-ri-lifestyle","tag-ct-hispanic-democratic-caucusjoseph-rodriqueznew-haven-latinossenator-richard-blumenthal"],"acf":[],"mb":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Jermaine Smith","author_link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/author\/jay\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"\u00a0   Joseph Rodriguez will again be commuting to Hartford to work in the office of U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal. […]","authors":[{"term_id":565,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"news-editor","display_name":"News Editor","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"mfb_rest_fields":["title","uagb_featured_image_src","uagb_author_info","uagb_comment_info","uagb_excerpt","authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5084973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5084973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5084973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5084973"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=5084973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}