Gov. Dannel Malloy, who expected to sit on the House floor Tuesday as US Rep. John Larson’s guest for the State of the Union speech, had a change of plans.
“I was on the aisle. I didn’t sit on the floor,” he said earlier today. “More members showed up than originally anticipated. I sat in the first row of the balcony, I don’t know, about 20 seats down from the First Lady, next to one of the doctors who treated Gabby (Giffords, the Arizona congressperson who escaped death earlier this month during a shooting spree than killed six). As I’ve explained to you before Gabby became a friend…or an acquaintance of both my wife and myself and I considered it a great honor to sit next to one of the doctors who saved her life.”