John “Why Should I Resign If I’ve Done Nothing Wrong” Rowland, the felonious former two-and-a-half-term Republican governor, will anchor the 3-6 drive-time spot on the once-venerable, but now boringly lock-step conservative WTIC radio from Hartford. With the Red Sox pretty much in the tank just ahead of the Blue Jays in the second division of the AL East, there is very little reason to listen to it, now, except maybe for the occasional dose of Rush at noon. It’s bad enough that Waterbury Mayor Mike Jarjura, who once called Rowland “the greatest governor in the history of Connecticut” hired Rowland for a $100,000-a-year economic-development job. But now ‘TIC thinks his opinions are worth broadcasting? Yowsah!.
Rowland earned the nickname Johnny Johnola around the start of his second term, when the Capitol Press Corps realized that very few numbers he announced in public could be reported as fact, because he didn’t know shoe polish from shinola, or Johnola, in this case. He was looking at the big picture, like those luxury charters with Key Air of Oxford to Las Vegas and Florida worth about $100,000, for which he copped a federal corruption plea in December of 2004.