Monday April 28, 2008
Rep. Don Clemons, D-Bridgeport, took a page fromr Ernie Newton’s expertise in malaprops this morning, during a news conference on the need for more black and Latino judges.
Newton, currently serving five years in federal prison on corruption charges, was famous for butchering the language.
He was possibly best known for asking that a state budget be cut with “a scaffold, not a meat ax,” when he meant scalpel.
Back when he was city council president in Bridgeport, Newton once proclaimed “I don’t want to be no escape goat.”
Anyway, Ernie’s out of circulation for a while and Clemons, chairman of the Black and Latino Caucus, led a news conference this morning on the need for more minority judges.
“We the members of the Connecticut Black and Latino Caucus are here to express our DISSATISFICATION with Gov. Rell regarding nominees of judges to Connecticut’s Superior Courts,” he said, not exactly getting the news conference off on the most-coherent foot.