Connecticut taxpayers mark Rowland-re$ignation anniversary

Yes, for you youngsters who don’t or can’t remember, tomorrow is the eighth anniversary of the resignation of John “Why Should I Resign if I’ve Done Nothing Wrong?” Rowland, the disgraced former governor. It cost the House Committee of Inquiry – and therefore you taxpayers – $6.5 million to investigate his corrupt administration, but it was a state Supreme Court decision on this day, June 20, 2004 that led to his resignation the next day rather than testify to the House committee. By late December of that year, he was copping a plea in federal District Court in New Haven, on his way to 10 months in prison for felony corruption. These days – while reportedly under a grand jury investigation in connection with the husband of Lisa Wilson-Foley, who paid Rowland $5,000 a month for about six months while “the Guv,” as he still calls himself, was working as a volunteer for Wilson-Foley’s GOP congressional campaign for the 5th District – Rowland opines on good government for the Hartford CBS affiliate during the afternoon drive. Here’s the link to the impeachment findings:

http://www.cga.ct.gov/inq/finalreport.pdf