August 15, 2008 - 3:17pm
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Evans' search for a new job

PolitickerWA.com’s The Inside Edge reports that Joan Evans, the Chief of Staff to retiring U.S. Rep. Darlene Hooley, is hoping Darcy Burner unseats a Republican Congressman in Washington so that she can join her staff when the new Congress takes office next year. 

Read the PolitickerWA.com report:

Now that U.S. Rep. Darlene Hooley (D-Ore.) is retiring, her chief of staff Joan Evans is desperate to find work, and she apparently is trying to score a position on Darcy Burner's (D-Carnation) campaign so she can stay close to Oregon, where her husband lives and works for the governor. Evans reached out to U.S. Rep. and Democratic Caucus chair Rahm Emmanuel (D-Ill.), who is trying to make a deal.

Evans previously tried reaching out to the Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.) campaign for the seat being vacated by Hooley, but they wanted nothing to do with her -- possibly because of her reputation for having a bad temper with her staff and an unprofessional demeanor when dealing with constituents. She was also alleged to have been spending Hooley's campaign funds for her own personal use to make trips out to Oregon to visit her husband.

Many in Oregon aren't shedding any tears over Evans' potential departure from the state. Perhaps she'll have better luck with Burner.

WALLY EDGE can be reached via email at politickeror@aol.com.

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