Friday May 29, 2009
It’s about 10 hours after the Democratic Senate majority, minus Sen. Ed Meyer of Guilford, rejected a GOP proposal to create a six-member bipartisan ethics panel.
The proposed Senate rule finally emerged for a floor debate in the late hours of Thursday night.
Missing, however, from the debate and vote, were two Democrats who may be in most need of ethics rules: Sen. Tom Gaffey, D-Meriden and Sen. Joe Crisco, D-Woodbridge. Gaffey was fined $6,000 last month for using campaign-finance money for personal expense and Crisco this week was fined $4,000 for writing the names of others on sworn documents applying for taxpayer-financed campaign money.
A Senate Democratic spokesman told reporters last night that Gaffey and Crisco thought it was good form to abstain from the debate.
The Blogster hopes they were watching the debate on TV. The resolution failed 20-13 at 12:21 after an hour-long vote.