Sunday Memo
I am in me wick. Governor Dannel P. Malloy is backguardin’ the organizers of the New London St. Patrick’s Day parade. They hadn’t a baldy of getting Malloy to keep his promise to headline their event once he got an invitation to breakfast with Vice President Joseph Biden. A day in DC is the mutt’s nuts for Malloy. You’d be a right jammy client indeed to think Malloy would pass that by to keep a promise he made at home.
Democrat Susan Bysiewicz would like to get to Washington, but her troubles in Connecticut continue to mount. The Yankee Institute’s Zach Janowski’s story on the former secretary of the state’s mismanagement of her office. Her put-upon campaign spokesman (she’s a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate) pooh-poohs the findings of Bysiewicz vastly overstating the revenues her office brought in and her allowing employees to accrue sick days while on leave. The prickly Middletown Democrat will not be best pleased to learn that the Wall Street Journal and Politico have picked up on the tireless Janowski’s story.
Two things you shouldn’t miss today: Alan Dershowitz on the persistence of anti-Semiticism. He shines a light on many offenders, including Charlie Sheen, Mel Gibson, and John Galliano. The most disappointing in their ugly conduct, however, remain Bishop Desmond Tutu and former President Jimmy Carter.
The indispensable Howie Carr gives his take on Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s big weekend in essential New Hampshire. The New York Times runs a story on Romney’s trip to Carroll County. Also in the Herald, Peter Gelzinis points out the cowardice of corporate board members when it all goes wrong. Suddenly, their flapping tongues are stilled. Inspiration for this story comes from, brace yourself, the $11 million severance “stink bomb” Massachusetts Blue Cross Blue Shield directors gave to their outgoing CEO, Cleve Killingsworth.
The Telegraph features a remarkable tale on Prince Andrew, who’s becoming British royalty’s Charlie Sheen. Libya’s high-profile booster is coming undone by his close relationship with billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who’s got so much money he spent $7.50 for a tin of Spam while in jail.
Speaking of princes, Daily Ructions has heard the name of Daniel Roberti, of Kent and New York (just like the Kissingers) bruited about as another candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the open 5th District. He’s been a prolific giver to Democrats. Life’s good as a student. Young Daniel Roberti is the son of Vincent Roberti, about whom there is no end of stories from the wide swathe he cut as a Connecticut legislator long, long ago. Still, the memories remain vivid. More as we hear it.
Take a moment to watch and hear the singular Cleo Laine.
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Who’s this Roberti, a straw man from the Birkenstock Belt? ” “Student”maxing out to Charlie Rangle? Rrrright… Hey NY elects 27 Congressmen. Run in one of those districts!
From Janowski on Susan B:
“The office also frequently settled investigations of businesses with improper filings by offering a reduced fee or penalty. Of the 20 investigations reviewed by auditors, the charge was reduced in 13. Auditors reported there was no documentation in nine of the 13 cases and the reductions ranged from 50 to 82 percent of the original amounts.”
She also maintained some sort of database. Does anyone have a copy of that database? And did it contain donor data? If so, maybe someone could cross reference:
1) those who got reduced fees
with
2) donors.
… and when Jodi Rell was in office, she didn’t go to Washington D.C. to press our state’s interests enough, right?
This is really stupid Kevin. Maybe you’re right, and New London’s parade has basically been ruined because of this slight (doubtful), but I’ll bet the governor will do a wee bit more good for the state down in D.C. than participating in an Irish pageant.
Ceremonial pageantry is exactly what we have a lieutenant governor for. No one will be any worse for Nancy Wyman attending in Dannell’s stead.
* the absurdity is only magnified by the fact that the economy of southeastern Connecticut is so reliant on federal dollars (see, defense spending). The workers down at Electric Boat will benefit much more from having the governor working the federal faucet than marching in a parade.
If Dan Malloy likes being in DC so much; why doesn’t he run for the Senate? That’s a two-fer—he can be on talk shows dissing Republicans every week and we can be spared Senator Bieber or Senator Almost a practicing Lawyer
In regards to employees accruing sick days while out on leave:
If the employee is out on Unpaid Leave for more than five days in a calender month, then they don’t accrue any sick time or vacation time.
If the employee is out on paid leave of absence, then they accrue sick and vacation time.
This friendly little clarification has been brought to you by someone who works for the state of Connecticut as a payroll clerk and apparently knows more about union contracts than the owner of this blog.
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