{"id":1998,"date":"2004-06-24T10:22:34","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T15:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1998.html"},"modified":"2004-06-24T10:22:34","modified_gmt":"2004-06-24T15:22:34","slug":"its-amazing-what-an-impeachment-driven-resignation-will-do-for-ones-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/its-amazing-what-an-impeachment-driven-resignation-will-do-for-ones-popularity\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s amazing what an impeachment-driven resignation will do for one’s popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve never been to Connecticut, but it appears that the state is filled with people who have an unusually high tolerance for scandal.<\/p>\n

After all, here we have a governor — pardon me, ex<\/i>-governor — who had prominent state contractors pay for refurbishments to his lake-front cottage. He not only lied about it; he’s under a federal criminal investigation. This scandal follows a series of fines Rowland had to pay for violating state ethics codes, including a flap in which he received special favors from a state contractor who offered him dirt-cheap rent on vacation homes.<\/p>\n

Worse, his administration has featured a former deputy chief of staff who pled guilty to accepting cash and gold coins (which he buried in his backyard) in exchange for influencing state contracts, a former commissioner of public works accepting gifts from people seeking state work, and a former state treasurer who pled guilty to racketeering and money laundering.<\/p>\n

And yet, state residents aren’t terribly disturbed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A University of Connecticut poll conducted after Monday’s resignation speech showed 47 percent of Connecticut residents had positive opinion of Rowland’s 9 1\/2 years in office, while 51 percent had a negative view.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those are one forgiving group of people. I guess his resignation speech went over well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve never been to Connecticut, but it appears that the state is filled with people who have an unusually high tolerance for scandal. After all, here we have a governor — pardon me, ex-governor — who had prominent state contractors pay for refurbishments to his lake-front cottage. He not only lied about it; he’s under […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}