She’s Up And…..

It’s 9 a.m. and the riggers have The Genius of Connecticut up in the air about four feet, ready to swing onto the $30,000 steel-supported marble pedestal at somepoint. Since she’s still wrapped, the allegorical protector of Connecticut looks more like The Mummy horror-film classic, not to be confused with the amateur hour legislative attempts to tackle the state’s multi-hundred-million-dollar budget deficit. When the wings are bolted on and the wraps are taken off, the Blogster hopes that the statue isn’t a spitting image of Jim Amann, who started the ball rolling on this now half-million-dollar project during his first term as speaker of the House back in the spring of 2005.