What better place to update the status of an elections complaint related to our newspaper blogs than on one of those blogs?
Today we reported the state Elections Enforcement Commission dismissed a complaint filed in August by Connecticut Republican Chairman Chris Healy against now retired Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy.
Malloy has been acting very much like a candidate for Governor and is considered by many a front-runner among the crop of Democrats who are interested in the job. But Malloy is technically still exploring whether to enter the race which, under the state’s public campaign finance law (currently in legal limbo) allows him and any one else certain advantages over declared candidates.
Healy argued Malloy violated state elections law by acting too much like a candidate and needed to fish or cut bait.
But Healy had another issue as well. He alleged Malloy also violated election law by posting a link to his exploratory committee on a blog he writes for The Advocate/Hearst Newspapers. The complaint alleged the link was a violation because it was not paid for and not attributed to Malloy’s exploratory committee.
Nancy Nicolescu, a spokesman for the Elections Enforcement Commission, said the body decided to take up the blog complaint as a separate issue. She could not say when. The Commission meets monthly.
I do think Malloy is violating something with that blog – rules that blogs should be interesting, maybe? – because he only posts sporadically and when he does it can be, well, kind of boring.
