One of the reasons why the House hemmed and hawed for hours last Thursday night over the controversial bills to implement the budget, might have had something to do with the Phillies-Brewers game. The Phillies are hanging on to first place in the NL East and Speaker of the House Chris Donovan, D-Meriden, is an old Phillie boy, who was entranced with the game. Other members of his caucus were out…ah…eating dinner. That’s it…. they were eating dinner is local restauarants with liquot licenses. Donovan was thoroughly miffed the next afternoon, when Republican Gov. Jodi Rell vetoed the a bill that would raise state fees by $50 million over two years. This morning, the House majority caucus seems flummoxed by the veto. There’s no new date to resurrect the special session on so-called implementers, includng the even-more controversial bill on the Office of Policy and Management. The Blogster is bemused.
