Gov. Malloy, safely ensconced in his second term, is back on the hustings

dan1of15Malloy, campaigning in Meriden today (left, Dixon photo) for his semi-disclosed transportation initiative (details will come during his budget address Feb. 18), seemed to be enjoying himself. When asked by a reporter to opine on Republican suggestions that a constitutional amendment is needed to maintain the sanctity of the state’s Special Transportation Fund (a likely non-starter in the Democrat-dominated General Assembly), Malloy had some fun.

“I’m glad that Republicans realize that we’re right on the transportation issue. That we’ve under-invested for too long, most of that time under Republican leadership and that they might feel somewhat chaste and want to be part of the discussion makes a lot of sense,” Malloy said. “With respect to a constitutional amendment or not, a constitutional amendment does not become immediately effective, so we’ll have to take any number of steps to make sure that we properly secure a lock box, because we’re certainly not going to wait two years to begin our program with respect to transportation.”