Editing Rob Simmons (section)

===Business advocate===
On February 26, 2007, Simmons was nominated by Connecticut Governor [[M. Jodi Rell]] to become the State's first Business Advocate.<ref>http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/m-news+article+storyid-20043.html {{dead link|date=August 2010}}</ref> The Office of the Business Advocate was established as part of the Governor's 2006 "Jobs for the 21st Century" Act (PA 06-83), for the purpose of providing centralized assistance to businesses in the state, and to pro-actively provide assistance to businesses of broader economic significance to the State.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cga.ct.gov/2006/ACT/PA/2006PA-00083-R00SB-00702-PA.htm|title=AN ACT CONCERNING JOBS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.|publisher=|access-date=2007-03-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070321080237/http://www.cga.ct.gov/2006/ACT/PA/2006PA-00083-R00SB-00702-PA.htm|archive-date=2007-03-21|url-status=live}}</ref> He served until December 2008.<ref name="stonington-ct.gov"/>