Repubs Pick Healy, Again

Chris Healy, the Swamp Fox of Connecticut politics, whose guerilla-style hit-and-run sniping at majority Democrats makes the lives of political reporters more interesting, has decided that he’s not going to rent U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd’s cottage in Ireland for the summer. Instead, he will continue as chairman of the Republican State Central Committee.
On Tuesday night in Bristiol, Healy, a Wethersfield resident, was unanimously re-elected chairman for another four-year term. You could argue that second prize would be eight years, what with the current GOP landscape: no more Republican representatives in Congress; 114-37 and 24-12 minorities in the Legislature. But he’ll always have Republican Gov. Jodi Rell.                                                                 
 
“The Connecticut Republican party is strong, working with purpose and is ready to win,” Healy said in a happy-face statement today. “We are the party of ideas and solutions and each day we are making our case where it matters – to everyday people fed up with excuses.”
 In recent months Healy has turned up the public heat on Dodd’s mortgage and cottage deals and singled out recalcitrant state lawmakers like Sen. Joe Crisco, whose forged campaign-finance documents resulted in a $4,000 penalty by the State Elections Enforcement Commission.