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GOP Wants Apology for Dems Playing Computer Games during Session
Last Updated on Friday, 4 September 2009 09:08 Written by rslcpol Friday, 4 September 2009 09:08
From the New Haven Register:
Republicans are calling on state Rep. Barbara Lambert, D-Milford, to “apologize” to residents for bringing “nationwide ridicule” to the city after a photo caught her playing solitaire during state budget deliberations.
The Associated Press photo, shot 12 hours into the session Monday, showed Lambert and another lawmaker playing card games on their computer screens while state Rep. Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, was speaking.
Voters “expect their elected officials to represent their interests, not be preoccupied with putting the red five on the black six,” said Thomas Jagodinski, the Republican Town Committee chairman.
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Democrat on Piling Booze into Car with State Plates – “Mind your own Business”
Last Updated on Wednesday, 2 September 2009 02:00 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 2 September 2009 02:00
From the Boston Herald:
The witness, who requested anonymity, claimed he approached Rodrigues, noted his State House plate, and asked if he was on personal or official business. Rodrigues, who was loading booze into his car, snapped “mind your own business,” the witness said.
The witness’ account was also posted yesterday on Citizens for Limited Taxation’s Web site.
A member of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, Rodrigues did not return several phone calls yesterday. But in an online interview with The Standard-Times in New Bedford, he acknowledged buying the booze during a bathroom stop while he and his wife were on a weekend getaway in New Hampshire.
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Democrats Play Computer Games While Republican Discusses Budget
Last Updated on Wednesday, 2 September 2009 01:51 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 2 September 2009 01:51
From Capitol Watch:
A photo of two Democratic legislators playing solitaire has ignited controversy at the state Capitol and in the blogosphere.
The Associated Press picture has appeared in any number of venues, and it shows two lawmakers sitting in the back row of the historic Hall of the House in Hartford during the lengthy debate over the two-year, $37 billion state budget.
On the left is Rep. Barbara Lambert, a freshman Democrat from Milford who won her first legislative election in November 2008. She replaced longtime Milford Democrat James Amann, who ended his legislative career as the House Speaker and is now running for governor against Republican M. Jodi Rell.
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Call Him Professor Spitzer
Last Updated on Wednesday, 2 September 2009 01:22 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 2 September 2009 01:22
From PressConnects.com:
Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has a new job: adjunct political science professor at the City College of New York.
Spitzer, who resigned in March 2008 when he was linked to a prostitution ring, confirmed Tuesday that he is teaching a course at the city college in Manhattan. Classes started Tuesday.
The college said he’s teaching a three-hour law and public policy class once a week in the political-science department for the fall semester. He will earn what adjuncts there receive, $98.43 an hour, said college spokesman Ellis Simon.
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WI: Running Red Light, Democrat Runs Over Biker
Last Updated on Wednesday, 2 September 2009 08:37 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 2 September 2009 08:26
Democrat Representative Fred Clark ‘wasn’t paying attention’:
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IL: Blago Blames Others in his Book
Last Updated on Tuesday, 1 September 2009 10:40 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 1 September 2009 10:40
From WGNRadio.com:
After myriad television appearances, radio shows and news conferences since his arrest on corruption charges, the seemingly omnipresent former Gov. Rod Blagojevich has made the case for his innocence again, this time in a 259-page memoir that offers small glimpses of both his rocky tenure and his upcoming criminal defense.
In his book “The Governor,” Blagojevich likens his downfall to a Shakespearean tragedy, suggesting his epic demise steals elements from “Othello,” “King Lear” and “Julius Caesar.” Ignoring no chance to tell readers how much he loves the people of Illinois and how wrongly accused he is, Blagojevich outlines the alleged betrayals, jealousies and family feuds that he says resulted in his impeachment and criminal indictment.
“And while you’re at it, you might as well throw in a little ‘Richard the Third,’ ” he writes. “Because when the story of my years as governor ends, I was left with neither a kingdom nor a horse. Or for that matter, even a car.”
And it’s not just Shakespeare’s protagonists with whom Blagojevich feels a connection. He compares himself to boxer Jake LaMotta, Theodore Roosevelt, Martha Stewart, George Bailey from “It’s a Wonderful Life” and the mythical figure Icarus, whose wings melted when he soared too close to the sun.
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Democrat pays $300 for Mock Police Raid Marriage Proposal (Including Copter and Boat)
Last Updated on Friday, 28 August 2009 11:35 Written by rslcpol Friday, 28 August 2009 11:35
From the Baltimore Sun:
Baltimore police have calculated the cost of a lawmaker’s mock police raid cum marriage proposal, which involved a department helicopter and patrol boat in the Inner Harbor. The amount: $300.
State Del. Jon S. Cardin paid the tab Thursday, but at least one city councilman thinks the figure is perplexingly low.
As promised, Cardin, a Baltimore County Democrat, wrote a check to the city after receiving a letter from Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III. Cardin declined to comment further about an incident that, while widely publicized, leaves several questions unanswered.
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Governor Paterson to Work for Obama?
Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 August 2009 12:01 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 25 August 2009 12:01
From the HuffingtonPost.com:
The rumor that Barack Obama wants to appoint David Paterson to a job in his administration is almost as old as Paterson’s stint as governor. Since the vaguest part of the story is always the identity of the job (maybe an ambassadorship?) it’s safe to assume that the rumor is not springing from any pressing need for Paterson’s services in Washington, but rather from the deep desire of many New York Democrats to see him go away.
Strangely, for a man who has spent most of his adult life in the state senate, where politics means everything and policy next to nothing, Paterson’s biggest disasters have almost all been political. He botched the selection of Hillary Clinton’s successor. His staff wasn’t even savvy enough to pick a date for a special election to fill a state assembly seat without creating a crisis. And his decision last week to depict himself as a victim of racism seemed to suggest that Paterson, in his misery, has forgotten even the most basic rules of the way his chosen profession works.
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Ohio: Dann Ally Takes Plea Deal
Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 August 2009 10:07 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 25 August 2009 10:07
From the Columbus Dispatch:
The figure at the center of the scandal that toppled former Attorney General Marc Dann from office likely will serve 45 days in prison, but prosecutors insisted yesterday that his plea bargain doesn’t close the book on charges stemming from Dann’s troubled term.
Anthony Gutierrez, who was Dann’s general services director, pleaded guilty yesterday to two felony and four misdemeanor charges alleging that he used state computers, vehicles and employees to assist in his private construction business and used Dann’s campaign account to subsidize his living expenses.
Prosecutors agreed to drop four charges, including two felony counts that Gutierrez cheated the state’s workers’ compensation system by misstating the number of employees at his construction company.
The deal requires that Gutierrez cooperate fully in any investigations and prosecutions of other figures from Dann’s scandal-shortened term as Ohio’s top lawman.
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Iowa Democrat – “I made a terrible mistake and…am paying the price”
Last Updated on Monday, 24 August 2009 12:35 Written by rslcpol Monday, 24 August 2009 12:35
From Radio Iowa:
A state legislator who has been fighting a drunk driving charge for six months has reversed course and pleaded guilty.
State Representative Kerry Burt, a Democrat from Waterloo, now admits he was drunk and a judge has ordered him to pay a $625 fine and attend an Operating While Intoxicated education program. He’ll be on probation for a year and could be tested for substance abuse.
Burt’s trial on the drunken driving charge had been scheduled to start Monday in Des Moines. He was charged February 11, 2009, with drunken driving in the Des Moines suburb of Ankeny.
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