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Friday, March 27, 2009

Changing of the guard for Senate Dems

Kathleen Crotty, the longtime executive director for the Senate Democrats and a Statehouse fixture, is retiring at the end of this month.

Crotty, who has worked in state government for more than 40 years, has led the Senate Democrats' operations since 1986.

"Kathy has managed to thrive all these years because of her unparalleled professionalism and innate political skills," Senate President Richard J. Codey (D., Essex) said in a statement. "Along the way, she redefined what it means to be a public servant and raised the bar for everyone around her. Few people, if any, can rival her institutional knowledge. She will be sorely missed, to say the least, but we wish her nothing but the best in her retirement."

Patrick Gillespie, the Senate Democrats' deputy director, will become executive director.

Crotty could be counted on to know the ins-and-outs of just about everything on the Senate's often-busy schedule. There seemed to be few situations that she had not seen before, and when new ones arose, she was quickly on top of them.

Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean Jr. (R., Union), said he sometimes disagreed with Crotty, but praised her work.

"Her love for the institution of the Senate is obvious. In many ways she shaped the Senate and transformed the structure of the organization into its modern form," Kean said in a statement.

Crotty said she felt privileged to have worked with the Legislature and was grateful to its professional staff.

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