Schofield, Linda

First took office January 2007
Term ends January 2013

State Rep. Linda Schofield

D, 16th District

Schofield, Linda

Contact:

Linda.Schofield@cga.ct.gov
Official Website
860-240-8585

Education:

B.S., University of Vermont, M.P.H., University of Hawaii

Committees:

Appropriations, Executive Nominations, Insurance

District Town(s):

Simsbury

Occupation:

Health-care consultant

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2010 Election

Campaign Expenditures:

Schofield participated in the state's public campaign financing program.

General Election Results:

Gregory W Piecuch (R)4,381(39.6%)
Linda Schofield (D)6,585(59.6%)
Robert Kalechman (petitioning)86(0.8%)

Primary Election Results:

0(0%)

Election History

Schofield squeaked into office with 50.6 percent of the vote in 2006, unseating four-term Republican Robert Heagney by 180 votes. In 2008, she won a rematch with Heagney by more than 2,000 votes. In the 2010 election she won 60 percent of the votes. 

Background

Schofield is testing the willingness of some liberal Democrats to tolerate contrary views, especially on fiscal and health issues. In 2009, she was one of nine House Democrats to vote against the final budget bill and one of five Democrats to sustain Gov. M. Jodi Rell's veto of the Sustinet health reform bill.

After cross-endorsing her in 2006, the Working Families Party ran a candidate against Schofield in 2008, even though it risked tipping the race to a Republican. Their analysis: opposition to their position on health reform within the Democratic caucus was more dangerous than bolstering a Republican minority. House Speaker Christopher G. Donovan defended Schofield, noting she cast a key vote to narrowly override Rell's veto of a minimum-wage increase in 2008.

Schofield, a registered nurse with a graduate degree in public health, held policy posts at Travelers and Aetna before becoming director of the state's $2 billion Medicaid program in 1988. She returned to Aetna as a vice president in 1993, tasked to study the Clinton administration's effort at health reform. She later became executive director of Kaiser Permanente in Massachusetts.

Schofield lives in Simsbury with her husband.

Financial Disclosure

Schofield reported no outside income from her salary as a state legislator. Her husband, Mark Deming, reported income from RBC Investments, a brokerage firm.  They own a home in Simsbury.Their extensive investments include stock in insurance and banking companies such as Aspen Insurance Holdings, Unum Group, United Health Group, ING, Barclays Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and HSBC Finance.They have no debts exceeding $10,000.A note on financial disclosure: Every spring, officials are required to disclose the ownership of real estate, the source of any income exceeding $1,000 in the previous calendar year and securities worth more than $5,000. They also are required to file an addendum in which they report any debt of more than $10,000; this may by law be kept confidentia

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