Reshuffle: Glassman to Lamont’s Office.

The state budget deficit and the workload in Governor Ned Lamont’s office must have eased considerably in the aftermath of the coronavirus surge this spring. The Greenwich Democrat is creating a position for former Simsbury first selectman Mary Glassman, Daily Ructions has learned.

The Capitol Region Education Council (CREC) created the Office for Regional Efficiencies for Glassman in 2015 after a charter change in Simsbury reduced the scope of her position as that affluent community’s chief elected official. Glassman was the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in 2006. She sought the governor’s job in 2010 but dropped out of the race to become Lamont’s running mate in their losing primary contest with Dannel P. Malloy and Nancy Wyman.

U.S. Representative Jahana Hayes won a landslide victory over party-endorsed Glassman in their 2018 primary contest to replace embattled incumbent Elizabeth Esty. Glassman left no footprints in jobs she held in the House and Senate Democratic caucases before she worked on Kevin Sullivan’s staff when he became lieutenant governor upon the July 1, 2004 resignation of then-Governor John G. Rowland.

Glassman’s precise duties in Lamont’s office have not been determined. If history is any guide, they will be light by practice, if not by design.