In last week’s column, I noted the asymmetry of the governor’s condemning as “despicable” alleged financial scamming by a congressional campaign official while ignoring some truly despicable efforts by his subordinates and others to give cover to an illicit plan to divert $300,000 in state funds to Communist Party officials so they can (purportedly) renovate their New Haven headquarters. This week’s column must fairly give credit where due, and the credit goes to Gov. Danell Malloy.
At last week’s meeting of the state’s bond commission, over which the governor presides and at which the proposed grant was slated for rubber-stamp approval by the commission’s Democrat majority, Malloy announced the withdrawal of the funding request as improvidently proposed. To be sure, the governor’s turnabout was an act of political pragmatism. Media and public attention to the issue were gaining on him. The story was growing legs and going national. Breitbart and other blogs had picked it up, and it was only a matter of time before Malloy’s face would be plastered on the “Factor.”
