According to a story appearing in the Waterbury Republican American,
“Former state Comptroller Bill Curry, the 1994 and 2002 Democratic nominee
for Governor, was even more direct. ‘No one under any cloud of investigation is
on any serious list for any appointment in any White House. It simply isn’t
worth the enormous political and moral hazard,’ he said. Mr. Curry was a White
House adviser to Mrs. Clinton’s husband," former President Bill Clinton.
Mr. Curry believes that Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy has no chance – zip – of acquiring a position in the administration of future President Hillary Clinton.
To date, some news commentators in Connecticut have supposed that Mr. Malloy’s abysmally low approval rating – a disappointing 23 percent, according to the most recent Quinnipiac Poll -- and the Governor’s recent selection as the head of the Democratic Governor’s National Campaign Committee point to a possible role in national politics, a life-line reaching from bottom-of-the-barrel Connecticut to political Heaven; might not Mr. Malloy consider a position in the Clinton Administration as U.S. Attorney General in charge of common-sense gun regulation?
Mr. Curry has been shouting encouraging words to “populist
progressives” from the Bernie Sanders bandwagon in the pages of Salon, a left
of center magazine, ever since the current Presidential campaign began, a
pursuit he has put behind him now that Mr. Sanders has disappointingly endorsed Mrs. Clinton as President. You win
some, you lose some. Mr. Curry, currently writing a book on progressivism and
populism, never-the-less remains a shrewd and colorful commentator on the
public scene.
It is quite true that Governor Dannel Malloy remains under a
“cloud of investigation” by the FBI among others – owing to campaign documents
that plainly skirted Connecticut’s Clean Election laws. However, there is
a saving “but.”
Mr. Curry knows the Clintons well enough, if not intimately.
To be sure, he is no Huma Abedin, perhaps Mrs. Clinton’s closest confidant.
Mrs. Clinton has endured a lifetime of investigations similar to the one
hanging over the head of Connecticut’s progressive Governor. The lady has
emerged from a multi-decade swamp of scrutiny with her political career, if
not her political character, largely intact. Mrs. Clinton is, after all, the Democratic
Party nominee for President.
Mr. Curry may be relieved he is NOT Ms. Abadin. Here is a recent headline from Judicial
Watch, which is to Mrs. Clinton what the Furies were to Orestes: “New Abedin Emails Reveal Hillary Clinton
State Department Gave Special Access to Top Clinton Foundation Donors.” And the lede: “Judicial Watch today
released 725
pages of new State Department documents, including previously
unreleased email exchanges in which former Hillary Clinton’s top aide Huma
Abedin provided influential Clinton Foundation donors special, expedited access
to the Secretary of State. In many instances, the preferential treatment
provided to donors was at the specific request of Clinton Foundation executive
Douglas Band.”
Politicians tend to unburden themselves plainly in emails
directed to trusted associates within the magic circle of incumbency. When the
emails are flushed out, most of them end up sounding like cheap imitations of
“Give’em Hell” Harry Truman. And of course such communications are not meant for
the prying eyes of political opponents and the general public which, according
to multiple polls, believes that politicians, even in their more saintly
moments, are dissembling frauds. Mrs. Clinton’s Trust Factor is way low. Her
unfavorable rating is 53.5 percent, according to a recent Real Clear Politics combination poll . The nature of Mrs. Clinton's leaked emails does not help at all. The FBI, which
declined to prosecute Mrs. Clinton, recently uncovered a cache of 14,900 previously undisclosed documents,
“nearly 50 percent more than the roughly 30,000 emails that Clinton’s lawyers
deemed work-related and returned to the department in December 2014.”
The Clinton cover-up attempt, increasingly unsuccessful,
continues apace. The Associated Press (AP), never among those accused by Mrs.
Clinton of attempting to obstruct her inexorable four decade march to the White
House, spent three years attempting to acquire from Clinton stonewallers the
lady’s calendar and schedule. And, of course, poisonous emails continue to
leech out of the Clinton cesspool. The protective stone wall erected by Mrs.
Clinton to prevent transparency and media access now has been breached, though
it has been a long time coming.
Mr. Malloy also has an email problem. Mr. Malloy and the
state Democratic Party, some speculate, arranged a deal with Connecticut’s State
Election Enforcement Commission (SEEC) to pay a hefty $325,000 penalty rather than to
continue a court case that might have required the Malloy administration to
turn over possibly incriminating emails during a discovery process. The ploy
may prove a temporary reprieve – for the FBI has now poked its nose into Mr.
Malloy’s tent.
Can the camel be far behind?
Here's the
"but" Mr. Curry might want to explore in future Salon columns: But Mrs. Clinton's tent, large enough to accompany a herd of camels,
may have room in it for Mr. Malloy's smaller tent, and birds of a feather...
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