Courant Chides Amann on $55k Session
The Hartford Courant editorial page chided House Speaker Jim Amann today for his $55,000 session last week:
“House Republican leader Lawrence Cafero of Norwalk rightly describes the work as a “huge piece of change — totally unnecessarily spent.” The legislature could have held a technical session among a few lawmakers and accomplished the same goal without removing the scaffolding, he says.
The response from Mr. Amann, a Milford Democrat, dodged the issue. “We’re the majority party. I make the call for the session,” he said.
He added: “When he [Mr. Cafero] becomes speaker, he can do what he wants. That’s how democracy works.”
We put a high value on democracy. At $917 per minute, though, we’d like it to work a little more cheaply.”
- Hartford Courant editorial, Thursday, December 13, 2007.
Chairman Healy has already enumerated some of the many things that misspent dollars could have been spent on – and rightly so. The Speaker fancies himself Governor – but he’ll need to show the good people of Connecticut that he can manage their money first.
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Is there some legal reason they even had to have the session in the House chamber? Couldn’t they have held it in a big meeting room?
Rep. Cafero indicated that they could have had a “technical session” pretty much anywhere and still accomplished the same legislative work.