Thursday, June 14, 2007
THEY'RE NOT BOOING....
"The caucus has elected myself as the new leader."
Great. John McKinney (R-Fairfield) is the new Senate minority leader, and he's talking like a professional athlete. If he starts referring to himself in the third person, put him on waivers.
McKinney succeeds Louis DeLuca, who "did the right thing" by resigning his leadership post. He's still a state senator, mind you, but stepping down as leader was the "right thing" after asking a reputed mobster to do a little bitch slapping to straighten out a family matter.
The people we elect are known as lawmakers. DeLuca went outside the law as we know it.
Yes, he pleaded guilty. Yes, good people do stupid things (my hand is raised on that one).
But his fellow caucus members are pleased that he "did the right thing."
My, they're easily pleased.
Just another reason to vote.
Great. John McKinney (R-Fairfield) is the new Senate minority leader, and he's talking like a professional athlete. If he starts referring to himself in the third person, put him on waivers.
McKinney succeeds Louis DeLuca, who "did the right thing" by resigning his leadership post. He's still a state senator, mind you, but stepping down as leader was the "right thing" after asking a reputed mobster to do a little bitch slapping to straighten out a family matter.
The people we elect are known as lawmakers. DeLuca went outside the law as we know it.
Yes, he pleaded guilty. Yes, good people do stupid things (my hand is raised on that one).
But his fellow caucus members are pleased that he "did the right thing."
My, they're easily pleased.
Just another reason to vote.
Posted at 8:47 PM by Gerry
3 Comments:
Nicely put! Nice to see you get a little political and express your opinion. It's refreshing.
I also enjoyed spotting your not-so-well-disguised disgust when you closed the news last week saying people could go to the WVIT website for a frame by frame of Paris Hilton going back to jail. We're with you, Ger!
P.S. I had waited on you and Gail King way, way back (maybe '94) at the Bombay Bicycle Club (which had just changed over from Smugglers Inn in Rocky Hill) and I'm not sure if it was you or Gail who did the tipping but Thank You! I looked forward to you two coming in again and I was planning to steal your table from whoever had it but you never returned. I don't blame you. The food was gargage.
"They're easily pleased." Indeed! Why DeLuca wasn't thrown out of the state senate two seconds after his guilty plea, is incomprehensible. He's also guilty of more than just asking a giamoch to "talk to" someone; he's also took campaign contributions from Galante and some of his employees and associates.
Furthermore, even DeLuca's admission of guilt is disingenuous; he claimed the police wouldn't help his granddaughter, but in fact, police are by law REQUIRED to help in domestic-abuse cases EVEN IF the victim won't press charges. So his claim cannot be true.
Let's stop tap-dancing around this; let's stop making excuses for DeLuca and dismissing his escapades as "a mistake." Asking a gangster to intervene in a personal matter is NOT an innocent act or a mere mistake; and lying about it even while admitting to it, makes it worse.
The past three or four years has shown Nutmeggers something we can no longer deny: We don't have a democracy, we have a mafiocracy. If our elected officials won't face this and do something about it, the people of CT will have to do it for them. Remember Sen. DeLuca in November '08 ... remember all the other mob-connected politicians. Then vote them out ... all of them.
Thank you both for your comments.
I'll say this for CT politicos on a local and State level. There are a lot of good people who serve, but there has never been a shortage of those who keep the shelves in our news supermarket fully stocked. And not in a good way.
As for Ms. Hilton...she's one of the better examples of our obsession with celebrity gone very, very awry.
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