Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

“ Capitol Watch ,” a bog written by two Hartford Courant reporters, is reporting that “House Speaker James A. Amann's announcement that he will not seek re-election in November set off a scramble to climb the leadership ladder.” Presumably House members vying for the position are less experienced than the present occupant of that office, James Amann, who has announced his intention to run for governor. Amann also is less experienced in the rigors of governing the state than the present occupant of that office, Gov. Jodi Rell. No one from the Democrat camp has yet argued that Amann should not run for governor because in doing so he will be surrendering his office to novices who lack "experience on the job." The notion that experienced legislators may never be replaced because the state will lose technical proficiency is an argument for reestablishing a monarchy and abolishing elections. This argument is trotted out whenever the word "term limits" are mentioned, a...

This from Capitol Watch, a blog maintained by two Hartford Courant reporters: Attorney General Dick Blumenthal, who thinks he’s a legislature, believes that Accenture, the consulting company that advises Connecticut on its CORE-CT computer project, ought to be “ censured ” because it allowed “valuable secret data to be stolen… putting at risk state taxpayers, bank accounts, and purchasing cards. Accenture acted unconscionably and illegally.” And last month the attorney general caught a cold, but he sued it and, like the Gaderine swine, it left him.