Connecticut Local Politics

In response to, what I am assuming were numerous, requests for a statement regarding the closing of the website “hack” story and the comments of AG Blumenthal three days after the email in question was sent given to the irrepressible CTBob, I received this statement from the AG’s office:
“Neither I nor any member of my […]

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I know that Genghis posted about the AP interview yesterday, but I wanted to point out this passage that pertains to John McKinney:
In an interview Friday with The Associated Press, DeLuca said it wasn’t a mistake that he didn’t mention the new Senate Minority Leader, John McKinney or any other Republican senator when he […]

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The Courant’s Chris Keating asked some CT elected officials whether or not Senator DeLuca should resign.
Senate Minority Leader John McKinney:
When asked if he had asked DeLuca to resign, McKinney said: “I’d rather not answer that question.”
Governor Jodi Rell:
“The senator, and the senator alone, and his family, will be the decision-makers on whether or not he […]

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In today’s Courant, Mark Pazniokas examines Dick Blumenthal and Jodi Rell’s attempt to keep serial rapist David Pollit in jail beyond his sentence. It’s a lengthy article, but well worth the read.
Two especially interesting passages:
Overlooked in that frenzied day of press conferences and hasty legal research was that Kane, a career prosecutor, had quietly […]

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The current fight over bonding is causing cities to have to borrow money for things like school construction:
An impasse between Gov. M. Jodi Rell and legislators over state borrowing has forced Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport to take out $55 million in loans so work can continue on school construction projects.
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Because school construction reimbursements […]

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Yay!

n a major softening of their position, the state’s Catholic bishops announced today that Catholic hospitals would comply with a new law that takes effect Monday that requires them to dispense emergency contraceptive pills to rape victims.

They’ve also finally recognized that Plan B is not abortion.

The bishops, however, said it is sufficient to require a […]

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The Department of Children and Families got a failing grade from several reports out yesterday:
The state Department of Children and Families is meeting the needs of abused and neglected children only 51 percent of the time, according to two reports released Monday.
The reports — one by a court-appointed monitor of the agency, the second by […]

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h/t to Spartan_881.
The committee had to ask, but Senator DeLuca did give permission to let them review an FBI report on an interview he had with them. No dice in the actual secret recordings though.
From the Courant:

On Monday, DeLuca’s lawyer, Craig Raabe said the report DeLuca is agreeing to release “covers a nearly three-hour […]

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Statement from Governor Rell:
“Judge Downey has asked me to withdraw his nomination to be a Judge of
the Appellate Court. I respect Judge Downey’s decision. I am sure it
was a difficult one for him and his family.
I will be submitting a new nomination to the Judiciary Committee in the
near future.”
Considering how badly yesterday’s hearing […]

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According to a report released by the Connecticut Citizen Action Group CT taxpayers have spent $11.1 billion of the $456 billion in total funding for the Iraq war.
From the press release:

The report, titled “Getting U.S. Back on Track” and authored by the USAction Education Fund, illustrates, how CT’s cost of war could have provided health […]

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File that under headlines you will never see.
Chris Healy reacts to Susan Bysiewicz’s call for Sen. Lou DeLuca to resign on his blog:
Now she believes Lou DeLuca broke the public trust, although no evidence has surfaced he ever used his office to benefit indicted waste hauler James Galante of Danbury. Did he say he would […]

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From the Courant:
State budget negotiators reached a tentative agreement Monday night on a deal that would provide large spending increases for health care and public education, but little relief for taxpayers.
The deal, which the House and Senate must still ratify, calls for keeping the popular property tax credit at the current maximum of $500, according […]

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CT News Junkie has the details here and here.  Read the text of the bill here.  Governor Rell is expected to veto.

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According to WTNH Governor Rell came out in support of State Senator Lou DeLuca yesterday. Unbelievable quotage follows.
Davis questioned the Governor about her zero-tolerance policy for corruption asking, “This man made some sort of promise to a guy who is under indictment by the federal government, isn’t that corruption?”
Rell defended the senator saying, “That […]

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According to MLN there were only 19 no votes.
More details as they come in, including information on the various amendments. Feel free to chime in with information in the comments section. Initial details about the compromise can be found at our earlier post here.
Right after the vote was called I spoke to a tired, […]

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