One troubling political trend is the proliferation of state politicians who treat private companies as honey pots for their personal ambitions. Last week two of the worst practitioners -- Connecticut Treasurer Denise Nappier and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal -- got a welcome rebuke from a jury of their betters. A six-person Connecticut jury ruled that New York financier Theodore Forstmann and his buyout firm, Forstmann Little & Co., owed the state nothing for having lost $125 million of its money investing in telecom companies. While the jury found them guilty of violating a couple of details of their investment contract...