Following Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s debate with Merrick Alpert at the University of Hartford, most press reports quoted Blumenthal on the role he claims to have played in facilitating business in Connecticut through suits:
Alpert: "… we have less jobs since he’s been in office. I would ask one question of the attorney general: How many jobs have your suits created?"
Blumenthal: "… Our law suits, our legal actions, actually create jobs, because businesses actually welcome competition and a level playing field.”
There follows a list of corporations in which the plaintiff has had an AG appearance. The list covers only the time from 1/1/07 to the present. The list includes, in this order: the company name, followed by the court docket number, followed by the case name.
A compehensive and readable list may be found here.
The list is continued here.
Alpert: "… we have less jobs since he’s been in office. I would ask one question of the attorney general: How many jobs have your suits created?"
Blumenthal: "… Our law suits, our legal actions, actually create jobs, because businesses actually welcome competition and a level playing field.”
There follows a list of corporations in which the plaintiff has had an AG appearance. The list covers only the time from 1/1/07 to the present. The list includes, in this order: the company name, followed by the court docket number, followed by the case name.
A compehensive and readable list may be found here.
The list is continued here.
Comments
I guess if you get hired by the AG that's one but in the process he has killed thousands of jobs.
I'm glad Merrick Alpert called him out on his phoniness.
Like beauty that's in the eye of the beholder. Here's one case in which Blumenthal claimed to be helping consumers: http://donpesci.blogspot.com/2010/01/blumenthal-devil-and-details.html
Constitutionally, his office is supposed to be a party to suits in which he is authorized to defend the interests of state agencies. No doubt some of that is represented in the list. Other consumer protection cases are constitutionally dubious.
The list is intended merely as a useful tool to measure Blumenthal's insistence in a debate that his many suits help and do not hurt business productivity in the state, a claim intimated by Alpert. Blumenthal is always talking about tobacco settlements and the like, but his litigation extends well beyond such things.
does anyone have comaparible state #'s also please