[MadIvan]

Took him long enough. I seem to recall around Christmastime he was caught with his hand in the till?

Regards, Ivan

[CatoRenasci]

Rowland has been a decent governor for the most part, but was not a wealthy man before becoming governor. Like so many politicians of both parties, he has succumbed to the temptations of power so well characterized by Lord Acton: all power tends to corrupt, absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely. A pity. The Lieutenant Governor, Jodi Rell, is a decent enough woman, whom no one suspects of corruption, but I'm not sure she's a particularly powerful politician who could be elected in her own right.

For all of its Yankee roots, Connecticut politics tend to be rather nastily corrupt in both parties. Nothing on the scale of mafia-dominated Rhode Island, and not as radical as Taxachussetts, but bad nonetheless. It is most curious that the states first settled by Calvinists who gave us the notion of good, uncorrupt government in this country, are among the more corrupt today. You would expect corruption in places like Arkansas or Illinois, but not in New England. I think the Yankee stock here is far too attenuated.

[kevkrom]

Took him long enough. I seem to recall around Christmastime he was caught with his hand in the till?

My folks live in CT, and they're take is that Rowland didn't do anything illegal -- the legislature was trying to change/tighten the state ethics laws after the fact in order to "get" Rowland.

[ClintonBeGone]

what a waste of 'talent'. He was elected to Congress at an early age and was governor by age 37. Now, he'll probably end up in a jail cell next to ex-Waterbury mayor Phil Giordano.