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Misconduct forgotten, a grifter sits in the governor’s chair

By CHRIS POWELL Twenty years ago Ned Lamont accomplished what may have been the neatest trick in Connecticut political history. He won the primary for the Democratic nomination for U.S. senator, defeating the incumbent, Joe Lieberman, and lost the election on the same night. By firing cop in shooting, did Hartford mayor yield to politics?Continue reading “Misconduct forgotten, a grifter sits in the governor’s chair”

By firing cop in shooting, did Hartford mayor yield to politics?

By CHRIS POWELL When he peremptorily fired the Hartford police officer who shot and killed a mentally ill man who was walking through his neighborhood with a long knife and was refusing police commands to drop it, Mayor Arunan Arulampalam last week worsened a bad situation and probably increased city government’s financial liability. Accountability terrifiesContinue reading “By firing cop in shooting, did Hartford mayor yield to politics?”