Fedele: Crowne Plaza Is Hot Stuff, Deja Vu All Over Again

 The Blogster attended Lt. Gov. Mike Fedele’s gubernatorial announcement in Cromwell this morning. It was in the same room where in mid-December, 2003, Patty Rowland, wife of John “Why Should I Resign If I’ve Done Nothing Wrong?” Rowland read a poem to the Middlesex Chamber of Commerce essentially challenging reporters on her hubbie’s ethical problems. By the end of June, 2004, Rowland had resigned as governor under the weight of an impreachment inquiry and a federal corruption investigation that sent him to prison for 10 months. The quote that day from Rowland to his wife as she started to read her poem: “Go ahead honey, what more can they do to us?”

Anyway, Fedele recalled the function room in a different way to about 100 statewide manufacturers at a CBIA forum.

“This was the first ballroom that I gave a major speech in 2007 when I became lieutentant governort and it was such an incredible hot speech that the fire alarm went off,” Fedele said. “I remember being dragged off by the State Police and I’m saying ‘wait a minute I have to finish my speech’ and they said ‘no, the fire arlarm is going off.’ So I promise you…well maybe the fire alarm should go off today. That would be very appropriate.”