Overheard in the MidRoad Diner during a meeting of the Reformers
Club
The difference
between God and Governor Malloy --“God is less concerned than [Dannel]
Malloy when people question Him.”
Those early
body-building pics of Republican House leader Themis Klarides circulating in
the desk drawers of oppo-researchers -- “I’m still waiting for one of
Connecticut’s opinionators to write, maybe in a column, that Klarides can
easily bench-press many of her political opponents. She likes sports, contact
sports too. Otherwise, why would she have gotten involved in politics?”
Malloy and Joe
Aresimowicz [Speaker of the Democratic Party hegemon in the State House] –
“… worms in the apple of reform.”
Connecticut’s
millionaires
A: “It may be the first time in a decade that there are no
millionaires running for high office in Connecticut. Couple of felons in
Bridgeport though, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
B: “Some of the millionaires have left and moved back to New
York. Can you believe it? Andrew Cuomo’s New York, Bill de Blasio’s New York. By
the way, what’s with the Frenchification of the Italian name?
A: “He took his mother’s maiden name in 2002. His father,
Warren Wilhelm, had a problem with alcoholism and left the family when Bill was
seven. So he waited, let’s see, 31 years to change his name. Better late than
never I guess. There are plenty of Italians in New York, and if you’re running
for office… But, interesting you should mention millionaires. Two of the seven
members of Connecticut’s U.S. Congressional Delegation are millionaires many
times over. [Dick] Blumenthal made his millions the old fashion way – through
marriage. (Rosa) DeLauro too. No Frenchification there; she caps the 'D'."
St. Murphy --
“Don’t know what it is – his face or his policies, but [U.S. Senator Chris]
Murphy just looks like the spoiled brat who stole the keys to his father’s
Alfa Romeo and crashed it into a tree. Millennial progressive face swollen with
righteous indignation, right?
The media in
Connecticut -- “… no George Orwells in attendance.”
Republican optimism
– “This is not the end of the road for Connecticut. It is only the beginning of
the end of the road.”
Unions, Connecticut’s fourth branch of government – “The day of reckoning has been postponed
until 2027, thanks to the Malloy-SEBAC union negotiations. And thanks to
Connecticut’s highly politicized Supreme Court, it may be postponed until well
after the state has expired, or moved to New York.”
The Democratic Party
Gubernatorial Rain Date – “Malloy lame-ducked himself for the best of
reasons. The state is a wreck, and the wrecking crew has decided not to defend
at the polls its accomplishments. I’m still on speaking terms with Opinion
Central in Connecticut, and no one believes that [Lieutenant Governor Nancy]
Wyman declined to run for Governor because she wishes to reacquaint herself
with her grandchildren. She just wasn’t willing to stand by her man, who
announced he had planned to scurry out before her months ago. Why should Nancy
be left holding the empty bag?”
Comptroller Kevin
Lembo – “… has no grandchildren, but he’s proven his political metal by
rushing out the back door of the burning house. He’s young enough to run a 'pick-up-the-pieces-campaign' at some future date after the rubble has settled.
By that time, people will have forgotten who the arsonists were.”
On Mayor of
Bridgeport Joe Ganim’s Run for Governor – “… better the crook you know.”
Social progressivism
and the Republican Party – “… Among the Avant Guard of the left, social
progressivism is variant of libertinism – not ordered liberty, not liberalism,
not libertarianism – but libertinism, the Marquis de Sade’s secular faith. Republicans shy away from this sort of thing.
They don’t want to end up sounding like Cotton Mather. On social matters, most
especially the unrelenting war on urban boys, Republicans have no strong
convictions; courage is lacking. They know in their hearts that the absence of
fathers in urban 'families' is the rot that lies at the root of urban
pathologies. But what has social deterioration to do with economics?"
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