Wednesday December 10, 2008
Say what you want about John “Why Should I Resign If I’ve Done Nothing Wrong?” Rowland, he was never caught on FBI tape with the kind of potty mouth that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has.
Rowland may have given Key Air of Oxford a million-dollar annual tax break in exchange for luxury air charters to Florida and Vegas; and the Tomasso Group of New Britain the sweetheart $56-million contract to build the Connecticut Juvenile Training School in Middletown following tens of thousands of dollars in improvements to his Bantam Lake cottage.
But he never tried to actually SELL a job like the vacant US Senate seat, so Rowland has that going for him.
It took four years since Rowland copped a plea in US District Court, but finally we have another governor who, ignoring history, chose to repeat it.