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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

12-11-13 Wait What?

Wait What?:






State Department of Education continues to flaunt Connecticut’s Freedom of Information laws
The Malloy administration, in general, and Commissioner Stefan Pryor and his State Department of Education, in particular, may very well go down as the least open and least transparent government entity since the adoption of the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act nearly forty years ago. By constantly and consistently violating the spirit and letter of […]The post State Department of Education
Malloy’s Campaign donation controversies continue to grow
Governor Malloy’s fundraising operation continues to raise serious legal and ethical issues that harken back to the “pay to play” tactics of disgraced Governor John Rowland. In addition to a number of reports that state contracts have side-stepped Connecticut law and donated to Malloy’s re-election plans via the Democratic State Central Committee’s “federal account,” comes […]The post Malloy’s Cam
12-10-13 Wait What?
Wait What?: Jepsen, Malloy and playing politics with the law…Call it naïve, but some would claim that while politics is political, America’s legal system is supposed to be above or separate from the day-to-day world of politics. But as we Americans we are learning, our legal system is, in fact, extremely political and appears to becoming more political by the day. At the federal […]The post Jepsen