Comments on: Does business experience translate into the ability to govern?

By: libhomo

libhomo — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:03:40 +0000

The question is especially interesting in regards to Linda McMahon, whose company put simulated necrophilia on nationwide TV while she was CEO.

By: Full Disclosure

Full Disclosure — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:02:06 +0000

Brian,

Right on! Give me a Break Sean…..

Lamont is a horrible Governor candidate …awful…..

Hope Dan Malloy wins ! He has proven to run a city well and deserves a shot at Governor

By: Brian Lockhart

Brian Lockhart — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:28:55 +0000

Sean,

Perhaps Lamont should hire you as his new campaign manager. You are far more riled up over my joke than his current manager was when I made it.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:16:35 +0000

Tipping his hand that he opposes Ned Lamont’s gubernatorial candidacy, reporter Brian Lockhart writes, “I told (Lamont campaign manager Joe Abbey) Ned would make a great Commissioner of Economic and Community Development for whoever is elected the next Governor.”

What a way to denigrate a candidate! No pretense of objectivity or unbiased reporting. Brian Lockhart comes right out and says that he prefers that someone other than Ned Lamont is elected governor, and that Lamont is only qualified to serve as the next governor’s commissioner of economic development.

Good to know that Mr. Lockhart has put his biases front and center for all his readers to see. But I wonder whether his employer Hearst Newspapers either doesn’t pay attention to this sort of egregious lack of professionalism, or whether the company simply endorses this sort of bias in its reporting. Either way it’s another reason why people have turned away from traditional media outlets like Hearst.

By: Fuzzy Dunlop

Fuzzy Dunlop — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:35:52 +0000

Unfortunately, despite the precarious position that our State finds itself in, we’re going to see a big uptick in the use of cliche’s and empty platitudes during this election cycle. “Businessmen” and CEO’s claiming that we need a governor who will run the state like a business will be one of them.

Although I’m uncertain whether Chris Shays is right for the job, I think he pegged the fundamental fallacy underlying this particular cliche when he said recently that Connecticut needs a LEADER, not a manager.

I hope you keep asking questions like this Brian, and asking, how precisely running a for-profit business translates to running a state government.