From the Courant editorial:
No elected "leaders" seem concerned about Rep. Dillon's DWI or about Rep. Clemons' bearing witness to a shakedown or about this... all actions while in office.Well, the bar for performance in elective office has been lowered once again.
Monday, state Senate Minority Leader Louis DeLuca of Woodbury pleaded guilty in Waterbury Superior Court to a misdemeanor charge for asking a garbage hauler [Galante] with suspected mob ties to have his associates threaten someone Mr. DeLuca believed was physically abusing his granddaughter.
No felony, no jail time. The Senate Republican leader received a six-month suspended sentence on the threat charge and was ordered to pay a $2,000 fine and donate $1,500 to charity....
That appears to be sufficient for most of Mr. DeLuca's colleagues on both sides of the aisle....
...the senator told the undercover [FBI] operative that "anytime [Galante] needs anything within my power that I can do, I will do." And, at a second meeting with the operative, "I'll keep my eyes open," and "Understand that anything that could hurt [Galante], I'll try to blunt it as best I can." This was three months after Mr. Galante was indicted on 72 counts of tax fraud, racketeering, threatening and extortion.Sen. DeLuca: James Galante's man in the legislature.
Is this the kind of representation Connecticut wants or deserves? Hasn't there been enough shoddiness as well as downright corruption in government in recent years?
Again, comity reigns supreme Under the Gold Dome.
Tim White
And stupidity reigns among the voters who overwhelmingly returned him to office following his arrest.
ReplyDeleteJust 50 years ago, such antics would cause real scandal among voters (at least suburban and rural voters), and such a politician would have been turned out from office. Now nothing seems to scandalize us.
Two days ago, a federal court ruled that the FCC can't ban the F-word from the public airwaves on “free speech” grounds. Now we just accept such behaviors by politicians and judges as normal. Well, we get what we vote for....
And I’m sure the ACLU is cheering this court ruling. Who is government to repress Bono from using the Fword on TV? or Janet Jackson from exposing herself on TV? Isn’t this what the Framers had in mind with the 1st Amendment?!
ReplyDeleteHow far can this liberal lunacy go? In Britain, police can no longer release descriptions of suspects on the lam because it might “prejudice” the public against them. The lunatics are running the asylum.
yes you are right-the bush/Iraq scandal and the Cheney/Haliburton scandal and the Rove/everythiing scandal when is it going to end?
ReplyDeleteI am fed up with all these scandals
Tim: have to give you credit for covering stories of corruption on both sides of the aisle. No one can accuse you of being blindly partisan on this.
ReplyDeleteA DUI is a personal matter; Clemons never again associated with Newton after he saw Newton offered a bribe; DeLuca offered to help Galante anyway he could after Galante was indicted by the feds; make no mistake about it this issue has legs but not until after the session ends tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteYes it must end-the corruption of the Dept of defense that took place under the bush adm is alarming.
ReplyDeleteKeep in Mind the Rumsfeld years are the most corrupt
and the fritz fiasco on 84.
ReplyDeletescooter LIbby is going to jail
ReplyDeleteScooter Libby perjured himself, right? That was the basis of his conviction, right? It wasn't the underlying issue... it was the perjury, right?
ReplyDeletePerjury should lead to jail time.
It doesn't matter if you sit in the White House. Perjury is a crime punishable with time behind bars... the underlying issue is irrelevant.
Libby worked for the vice president Tim and he and the vice are both corrupt if you have not been made aware
ReplyDelete10:44 I sense that you're more interested in punishing Republicans who have committed crimes, than you are in punishing people who have committed crimes.
ReplyDeleteScooter Libby commits perjury and goes to jail. Bill Clinton commits perjury and loses his law license for a few years. Equal justice under law?
ReplyDeleteYou post about corruption and you get comments about corruption but you don't want to hear it. Tim you are losing it man-your loss to Vickie has made you a bitter man.
ReplyDelete7:06 what is it that I don't want to hear? Perjury is a crime. And it is should be punished.
ReplyDeleteAnd what does Rep. Nardello have to do with this post?
Tim’s never been bitter about Ms.Nardello, but 706 has become obsessive-compulsive about posting this charge under every topic that has nothing to do with Ms. Nardello. 706 is an obsessive-compulsive, drive-by spammer.
ReplyDelete7:06
ReplyDeleteYou want bitter go suck on a lemon.
TPS
Bitter is the taste
ReplyDeleteAcid is the tone
If you don't like the north end
Then you can have this bone
the Cave men of Cheshire are here again in denial about the bitter tone in the voice.
ReplyDeleteAngry and said is no way to go through life
Obsessive-compulsive, driveby spammer, lockstep partisan, and shill. Your tired clichés and sophomoric poems contribute nothing of reasoned dialogue to any issue. That’s why no one respects or is convinced by your comments. You’re only playing with your own bone.
ReplyDeleteWe are the CAVE men of Cheshire
ReplyDeleteWe live to critz all
We have no message
We lost the last two elections
We hang on to outdated ideas
We have no one but ourselves to blame
HA Ha
WS and the boys gonna get you
Nice shoppes and rest and bars
Take it easy old timer
You will be able to come up to the ribbon cutting ceremony
Make your thoughts known
Keep trying you will never make it
Your tired clichés and sophomoric poems contribute nothing of reasoned dialogue to any issue.
ReplyDeleteHe's got diarrhea of the mouth
ReplyDeleteand constipation of the brain.
There once was a man named cain
ReplyDeleteWho was to everyone a pain
He did not like the north end
And did not like progress
And did not like change
So he moved to Montana
And now he is a goat farmer
shill (noun):
ReplyDelete1. somebody who pretends to be an interested customer or gambler in order to lure others into buying or gambling.
2. somebody who promotes somebody or makes a sales pitch for something for reasons of self-interest.
"scooter LIbby is going to jail"
ReplyDeleteIf it happens, he'll get a pardon real fast before he starts spilling the beans.
It would be nice to hear that Cheney is is an undisclosed prison.
Scooter, Rummy, uncle dick, Turd Blossom, Condy. Who else was on this terrific team?
They could start by keeping the bimbo slut-ebrity Paris Hilton locked up for more than two nights!
ReplyDeleteYes! The celebri-slut Paris Hilton is going back to jail for the entire 45 days of her sentence. Finally a judge with some common sense, sending a message that no one is above the law.
ReplyDeleteAnd I hope Paris meets lots of new friends, big friends, with tatoos....