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      


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