Colleen M. Kopp is a lobbyist with Wojdak Government Relations and a former legislative staffer in Pennsylvania. Prior to that she was an aide for House Minority Whip

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and for Governor

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. She is a former Secretary of Legislative Affairs. She earned a degree in public policy from the

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. She first rose to prominence as executive director for

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Representative

. In March 2003, she was hired by the newly elected governor

to serve as his Deputy Secretary of Legislative Affairs. The political website

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called her "the Democrats version of the GOP's

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. She was named to the

list of "Pennsylvania's Most Politically Powerful Women," where her work for many Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections was noted. She was named to the

list of "Rising Stars" in Pennsylvania. In 2007, she partnered with

, who had been defeated for re-election in 2006, to found the Veon, Kopp & Associates lobbying firm, with

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as its first client. The firm was dissolved in April 2008 and Kopp returned to lobbying under the name of Kopp & Associates LLC, where she represented

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. In March 2009, she returned to Governor Rendell's office, the third individual hired in spite of Rendell's self-imposed hiring freeze. The Governor dismissed questions about the appropriateness of hiring Kopp, who was mentioned but not accused of wrongdoing in the criminal proceedings of her former boss and business partner

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