The Government Administration and Elections Committee has approved a bill that would provide for a special election in the case of a U.S. Senate vacancy, instead of by gubernatorial appointment. The bill, S.B. 913, passed the committee 11-3.
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Good luck with that; somehow I don’t Jodi waiting eagerly to sign that one.
“Veto Proof”??
Maybe we’ll see; maybe it fails to make it through both chambers.
Agreed, she’s been consistent about vetoing bills that infringe on the powers of the governor.
Emperor Rell wants to veto a law giving power to the electorate?
Did she somehow miss the Blagojevich spectacle?
PS– ACR, Spallone isn’t Caruso, and this will sail through the House GAE committee.
Since when is there a house GAE committee? There is a joint committee, that this bill was just reported out of.
You’re consistent, consistently wrong, but at least you’re no Lowell Weicker weather-vane gotta give you that.
You might favor a more direct democracy, some of us prefer a democratically elected republic.
Let me point out that with a direct democracy we might have failed to free the slaves.
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There is nothing empirical about Jodi Rell.
She’s become as gracious as Jackie Kennedy and can glide through a room with equal charm or maybe more – it’s truly amazing, a sight to behold and she is not State Representative or Lt. Gov. Jodi Rell anymore.
Jodi always carried herself with dignity and poise; however the Governor Rell we saw at last month’s SC meeting in Waterbury was a “new improved” Jodi Rell that I had previously not witnessed in the now 23 years that I’ve known her.
She seems to enjoy sharing camera-phone photos of grandchildren or jotting a quick note so as to personally take care of some constituent issue.
She turns in 14 -16 hour days back to back, and makes it look easy – never losing her trademark smile or raising her voice.
There’s only a few people in Connecticut that work as hard as the illegal Central Americans from Danbury; one of them is Jodi Rell.*
That she doesn’t publicize her entire daily schedule is to her credit.
She would become less effective and it would appear showy or boastful and neither would fit her persona.
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*Another is Chris Healy who might well be the hardest working natural born white guy in the entire state. I get exhausted just reading his twits.
Future democratic governors will thank her.
Publicize? Of course she doesn’t publicize it — it had to be wrenched from her office by FOI. Because it shows that she doesn’t work 16-hour days, but rather, 10-hour weeks.
If you really think that Gov. Rell only does what was disclosed in her Outlook calendar, then you’re probably naive enough to believe that the “stimulus” will succeed.
Hyperbole, gushing and snarkiness aside, we’re talking about six year terms. A senator could drop dead while taking the oath. The arguments against a special election seem pretty weak to me.
ACR, I’m a big fan of a democratically elected republic myself. However, going from a governor’s appointment powers to failing to free the slaves, a stretch, no?
OK. So maybe that was a little snarky.