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Gray Might Face Questions


Kevin Rennie, a Hartford Courant columnist, writes on his blog “Daily Ructions”  that Charles Gray, the “spouse of Governor Dannel P. Malloy’s legal counsel and former Pullman & Comley lawyer Andrew McDonald,” might expect a few questions concerning “the details of his relationship with Pullman & Comley,  when he appears before the Executive and Legislative Nominations Committee on Thursday at noon to his nomination to the CAA [Connecticut Airport Authority].”

According to Mr. Rennie:


“Pullman & Comley had more than a good friend in the room when the Connecticut Airport Authority rejected considerably lower bids from two other firms and hired the Bridgeport-based law firm to serve as its counsel. It had a former client in authority member Charles Gray, spouse of Governor Dannel P. Malloy’s legal counsel and former Pullman & Comley lawyer Andrew McDonald.”
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dmoelling said…
Although all politicians aspire to some degree of "honest graft", today democratic party seems to rely on this for their very existence. Lacking a strong public membership base (not that the GOP has a larger one)they live on rent seekers. The GOP gets money as defense or protection from government, which is less directly compensated.

Public Service Unions, Lawyers, nursing homes, etc. for a motley crew.
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Don Pesci said…
Right. Honest graft rises in direct proportion to the absence of political opposition. In the heyday of Tammany, there was collusion on this point between Democratic and Republican officeholders. But in Connecticut, the Republican Party, sad to say, is little more than a byword, and the media is left of center – all of which gives a boost to “honest graft” in its modern form.
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