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Rowland and Orange Alert

Well, all right, since many people have asked, I'll explain our governor, Rowland. He's a crook. He's been a crook, he is a crook, he will always be a crook. I've been chronicling him for years. The nastiest letter from a reader I ever got was from a woman who thought it was unseemly that I depicted Rowland sticking his tongue out at the voters, with his fingers in his ears, of course. This was after he was re-elected.

A couple of years ago, I put together a set of cartoons called the Apotheosis of mediocrity, which makes no sense unless you know a lot about Connecticut politics:

The cartoons do show the incredible amount of doo doo that's been swirling around this guy for years.
However, all this really never made a dent in our governor's armor until this hot tub thing came up. That's right. Hot tub. It turns out that our governor's house in Bantam has had many freebies added to it, thanks to guys who are state contractors. And the worst thing of it, was that he LIED about it. That's right. On December second, he lied, and we can forgive a lot of stuff, but we can never forgive a liar...although, the courant in its editorial last week said that if Rowland said he was sorry, they'd forgive him. After the editorial was published, Rowland apologized no less than three times. Just to show you just how bad the situation is now, the Courant just ignored their previous editorial and called for his resignation. There's stuff coming out recently, that I had never even heard about. We denizens of Connecticut are in a real identity crisis...we seem to have become Providence. And it's causing great consternation.

Here's an article on Rowland accepting gifts.

Now, onto our orange alert, which is like Tom Ridge's gift to our governor, because instead of Rowland spending yet another sad news day in the headlines for graft, today he was in the headlines for being in charge of Connecticut's war on terror, protecting Millstone and what not. Bah humbug.

These terror alerts are complete hooey, and I thought it was really stupid to do a terror alert during the tail end of the Christmas shopping season. There are people who honestly believe that stuff! They'll cancel trips, they won't shop...

Tom Ridge, of course, was president of the Republican Governor's association just prior to Rowland's accession. Besides having that in common, they have Pension funds in common. And Enron.

And the cartoon above. Rowland with the Ridge genie issuing an orange alert.

More links:

Tom Ridge increases retirement fund.

Tom Ridge and Rowland met with Ken Lay in Denver while Tom Ridge was president of the Republican Governor's Association.

Lobbyists and the Republican Governor's Association

12-22-03