“Court funding in exchange for judgeships. That was the condition leaders of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee set for Gov. M. Jodi Rell.
“She accepted.
“Then the ante went up: The $19.1 billion state budget for those judgeships.
“She accepted again.”
The hold-up was “disappointing and infuriating,” the paper noted.
The paper did not mention the name of stage coach robber Williams in its editorial.
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Hardly a "hold up" when the judges were not at all a practical necessity. Her excellency was only held hostage by her own politically hackish desire to reward a few cronies with patronage positions.
It will be interesting to watch over the next few months as her actions are held hostage to another desire; the need to retire as the most popular and well liked failure in state history.
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