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Handley leaving state job to join cable TV group
State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Thursday, February 7, 2008
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BOB ARYA of Plainfield, who has been senior adviser to the governor, is now a Department of Central Management Services deputy director overseeing agency spokespeople as well as Web sites, publications and the Illinois Information Service.
Arya , 40, joined the Blagojevich administration in late 2006. He had been an award-winning reporter and anchor with CLTV, a Chicago-area news station. His salary is staying at $114,900, and he will also continue to run what is now called the Governor’s Office of Citizen Action (the last word was formerly “assistance”), which handles correspondence and has a staff of about 10 people.
“My goal has always been to streamline operations and save taxpayer dollars,” Arya said.
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Ex-advisor to panel: Order Blago to get psych evaluation
Arya’s memo says Blagojevich is good dad, great guy but ineffective, emotionally unstable chief executive
January 8, 2009
BY DAVE MCKINNEY Sun-Times Springfield Bureau Chief