Conn. Gov. Rowland Again Refuses to Quit

[Khephra]

Conn. Gov. Rowland Again Refuses to Quit
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: January 13, 2004


Filed at 10:28 a.m. ET

CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) -- Gov. John G. Rowland said Tuesday that he is not swayed by the growing number of calls that he resign for accepting gifts from state employees and a state contractor and then lying about it.

``I've made mistakes; I've apologized for those mistakes; I've taken responsibility for those mistakes. Now, it's time to govern to get back to work,'' Rowland said. He was in Cromwell to attend a conference on teen drug use.

more.........

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Connecticut-Governor.html

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. Cool! This is only hurting the Repubs!

The longer he stays in office, the more damage he does to his party.

When your own party is asking for your resignation and you refuse, you are simply damaging the party.


For some reason this guy reminds me of Pee Wee Herman in Pee Wee's Big Adventure!!! The part where Pee Wee is in the basement and he's giving the lecture about his bike missing, and says the line "And knitting, and knitting, and knitting!!!!!!!!!!!" which by that time he has lost it and all of his friends have left! LOL! I have no idea why that popped into my head!

[Sagan]

2. Typical repug mindset

Yes, I did something wrong (because I got caught), but that's over and now you just need to let me keep going without any consequences to me whatsoever.

And THIS is supposed to be the party of personal responsibility? How laughable.

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

3. slimy and slithery to the end ...

``I've made mistakes; I've apologized for those mistakes; I've taken responsibility for those mistakes."

What does he mean by "mistakes"? Are the mistakes getting free work done at his house by state contractors and government-employee subordinates. Or, in his mind, did he only err in initially lying about the gifts? If he defines his "mistakes" as the latter, then he is basically saying that actually accepting the gifts was okay; he should've just told everyone. On the other hand, if he says the actual receipt of the gifts was wrong, how exactly has he taken responsibility? By paying back the contractor?

[candy331]

4. I've noted very little mention of this on cable news

Isn't this big when a Governor of a state faces impeachment or is it only the Democrat impeachments that matter? California and Gray Davis was brought to our ears seemed like 24/7.

[SoCalDem]

6. But..But... But.. Gray Davis was EEEEEEEvil

He was actually thinking that Enron should pay us back some of the money that they extorted from us.. Gray Davis was not as "macho" as our "new and improved, extra-lemony" governator..

Don't we all know by now, that any time a repube gets into a jam, all he has to do is say "Sorrrrry" _{I got caught} and everything is hunky-dory again..:)

[PROGRESSIVE1]

9. Only Democrats are supposed to be trashed, never a Rethug!

Das iz Zie Vay Cable "News" iz!

:mad:

[Sapphocrat]

5. Talk about an ankle-biter!

Well, good, let him continue to make a complete ass of himself.

[goforit]

7. Good!!!........Keep the GOP being exposed as criminal felons!!!

No problem Gov.Rowland!!!

[bluestateguy]

8. It's time to circulate recall petitions

I don't care if Connecticut has a recall law or not. Petitions should be circulated, signed and sent to the Secretary of State demanding a special election. If an election is not granted then protestors should barrocade themselves in front of the governor's mansion.

[mobuto]

12. Not possible

The Secretary of State, Susan Bysiewicz, is great. But there's no way in hell she's going to break the law (and holding an early election is a violation of the law) just in order to placate a bunch of roudy demonstrators. That whole scenario seems like just about the only thing that could actually save Mr. Rowland from complete disaster.

[salin]

10. "Taken Resonsibility for those mistakes"

a- what he did was just a mistake? Doesn't it border on illegal (or at least highly unethical?)

b- for the average joe "taking responsibility" means paying the consequences of ones actions (losing job, going to jail, or whatever the case may be). for him it means just say sorry and claim to have prayed about it and ... voila... problem over...

[mobuto]

11. I love Rowland

Let the man twist in the wind. He's totally powerless and if he stays in office, he'll be the ticket to a Governor Blumenthal in 2006.

The Feds are going to indict him anyway. So let him stay in office until that happens.

[really-looney]

13. Bush Campaign Chair

Please remember when referring to Governor John Roland that he is the Re-select Bush Chair for CT. Comments should read Re-Select Chair Roland has been asked to resign due to his breaking the law and lieing about it.

[coda]

15. Chairman of the Republican Governors Association, too.

On edit:
He was Chair of the Republican Governors Association in 2001.


Lots of "prestige" there to crow about.

He also has some of that Enron connection "prestige", as well,


http://www.ccag.net/Democracy/CRRA-ENRON.htm

CRRA/ENRON


The centerpiece of this scandal is the loss of over $220 million of public funds from the quasi-public CRRA (Governor Rowland’s former Chief of Staff Peter Ellef was Chair of the CRRA Board) through what the Attorney General has determined was an illegal loan. Rowland’s longtime Political Director (Michael Martone) was Enron’s lobbyist and his law firm represented both CRRA and Enron in the deal. Enron gave $100,000 to the Republican Governor’s Association, which Rowland was serving as Chair, around the time of the deal.

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

14. No. 1 Connecticut Bush Supporter Vows to Hang On

"Gov. John G. Rowland, the honorary chairman of George W. Bush's campaign in Connecticut, says he intends to ignore 63 percent of state voters and half of all state Republicans. He promises to stay in office.
"Rowland, who has backed Bush or his father in all but one presidential election since 1980, lied to the public about improvements on his vacation home that were paid by state contractors and subordinates in his executive office. The governor, the only Connecticut executive in history who has been fined by the state ethics commission (twice), attended six National Governors Association conferences with Bush when the president was governor of Texas, as well as several GOP-specific gubernatorial conclaves.
"In the late 1990s, while governor, Rowland went into business with two friends who are also political benefactors. He made an 800 percent profit on a land deal. Afterward, Rowland installed three of his business partners' kids into patronage jobs. Similarly, when the United States Supreme Court installed Bush as president by the slimmest of margins and on the shakiest of pretexts, Bush rewarded the children of two of the justices who voted on his side with posts in his presidential administration."

[Tuttle]

16. Rowland will not appear with Bush

at a fundraiser on the 29th in Greenwich (Bush's hometown - don't ever let anyone tell you he's from Texas!)

Tut-tut

[Tuttle]

17. deleted

edited to delete duplicate post
Tut-tut

[Solly Mack]

18. Oh, so you canbe unethical and open to corruption

and all you have to do is say "sorry"


Why is it we teach children that saying "I'm sorry" makes everything all better...when it so clearly does not.