“I’m on a mission,” Gov. Dannel Malloy just told Capitol reporters, only slightly less transparent than his recent trip to Afghanistan, from which selected reporters received calls after a blackout security period. “A lot of this involves phone calls and discussions with business leaders who can enlarge employment in Connecticut and I’m engaged in that on a daily basis.”
The Blogster asked the governor why he and his office have been “cloak and dagger” about the trip, with a terse e-mail last Friday from his press office saying only he was going out of state, on the taxpayer’s dime, in the cause of economic development.
“Listen folks, I am involved in economic development efforts every single day. And the thing about economic development is that some of that has to be conducted person-to-person, in private. It has to involve relationship building. It certainly has to involve what we’ve already done in this state and that is to take care of our long-term economic and budgetary issues, which I can assure you the outside world is taking note of.