Waterbury Mayor appoints convicted felon Rowland to key position

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Nothing like that unmistakable stench of cronyism and corruption.

http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-rowland0124.artjan24,0,953362.story


And there's a poll,too.

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Rowland Job: Back Around Big Money

By EDMUND H. MAHONY And JON LENDER

Courant Staff Writers

January 24, 2008

If former Gov. John G. Rowland's appointment as Waterbury development czar goes through — and there was no sign Wednesday that it wouldn't — he again could find himself at the center of the kind of big-money deals that proved to be his undoing in office.

The Waterbury business and political interests behind the Rowland appointment say the convicted ex-governor is thoroughly reformed and particularly suited for the position. But others outside the city say that even the offer of the job is a public insult. What's more, they say, it would be a mistake to reinsert Rowland into a mix of money and influence that proved in the past to be an irresistible temptation.

"This is a disgrace," said Farmington Town Council Chairman Michael Clark, a Republican and the former FBI agent who supervised the investigation that led to Rowland's imprisonment in 2005. "It is like kicking sand in the eyes of every hardworking taxpayer in Waterbury. He violated the supreme trust — the trust between an elected officeholder and the voters.

"John Rowland says he has had a spiritual rebirth," Clark said. "Well, the spiritual rebirth I want to see is when he puts his hand on a Bible and promises to tell the whole truth to a grand jury, honestly and completely, which he has never done."

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1. OMG

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2. That's like putting Pete Rose in charge of a Casino

Well.... Sort of.

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3. I hope this becomes an issue during Jarjura's re-election campaign