THE CHOSEN 10
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE TO NAME
NAMES
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NO
MORE SILENCE
After a few quiet days,
relatively speaking, things are likely to heat up at the Capitol on Thursday.
Speaker Lyons will name the ten men and women who will serve on the bipartisan
panel that will investigate the alleged wrongdoings of the governor. I truly
hope Lyons and Minority House Leader bob Ward have done thorough background
checks on all of the candidates. Because if it's learned later that any one of
the reps have taken questionable gifts or have any other blemishes in their
background, you know the Rowland camp will be all over them.
No matter, Rowland will be many, many
miles away from the Capitol when the panel announcement is made. The guv will
be down in Bridgeport doing "regular" guv work, announcing an
economic
In the end, after this panel
finishes their work, I think the guv will be bloodied, but unbowed and certainly
not impeached. The federal investigation looms large over whatever this panel
tries to do. I predict some witnesses will be very reluctant to testify fearful
that those words will be used against them in the federal
investigation.
HOW LOW CAN THEY
GO?
Man, there is no spinning the
low, low, low poll numbers just out by Quinnipiac. Pollsters say the 24 percent
job approval rating for Rowland is Nixonesque. So what does the guv do now?
Well, while still under 50 percent, the Guv still gets "high" marks for being a
leader. So as you can see, he is trying more and more to be out in public trying
to be the governor, it's also why, despite the sideshow aspect, he desperately
wants to give that budget speech in the Hall of the House February to open the
legislative session.
Posted: Wed - January 21, 2004 at 12:35 AM