Dannel Malloy, the unpopular governor of Connecticut, made headlines a couple of days ago when he said the National Rifle Association had “in essence become a terrorist organization.”
Malloy (D), whose poll numbers are so bad he’s not running for re-election, was virtue-signaling in the aftermath of the Florida high school shooting. You know, the shooting in which the FBI ignored tips the shooter made threats against schools. The shooting in which Coward County sheriff’s deputies, led by incompetent and dishonest sheriff Scott Israel, went out to the shooter’s house more than 30 times for crimes he committed but made no arrests (which gave him a clean record to buy guns). The shooting in which Coward County school officials didn’t have the shooter arrested for previously bring ammunition onto school grounds, but put in into “alternative education,” which gave him a clean record to buy guns. With lots of money his indulgent rich adoptive mother gave him. The shooting in which shrinks and child welfare agents knew about the shooter cutting himself and committing violent acts but did nothing. And yes, the shooting in which four Broward Cowards would not enter the building to save kids, but waited outside until three real men from the Coral Springs police force went in after the shooter. Yes, that shooting.
Malloy and other leftists have blamed the NRA, an organization of millions of law-abiding citizens, but not his fellow Democrat politicians or payrollers who failed to prevent the criminally insane or sane criminal shooter from obtaining firearms, entering a high school, and shooting it up … while government payrollers with weapons cowered outside, or were told to do so by their Democrat sheriff and/or Democrat county officials.
Malloy’s claim to fame was not stopping the Newtown school shooting. This had another indulgent mother, a bat-excrement crazy kid who she bought guns for, and a weapons-free school zone full of defenseless children and female teachers. The shooter, a soft looking little punk, was a homosexual who was into molesting little boys. Homosexuals, the mentally ill, and child molesters are all part of Malloy’s base.
What is Malloy’s background?
He says he learned how to shoot a plinker (a 22 caliber rifle) as a Boy Scout.
He went to law school, then was a very junior prosecutor in New York City, then he was in private practice in Connecticut, was mayor of Stamford, CT for 16 years, and is coming to the end of his second term as governor. He got in on a very thin margin amid charges of voter irregularities that favored Democrats.
The state is now broke. Malloy didn’t help matters when he backed off state and local cops from assisting in immigration enforcement. Illegals are now sponging more off of taxpayers. Malloy also checked off another leftist diversity block. Since previous pols in Connecticut enacted “gay marriage,” Malloy was left with letting freaks use girls’ bathrooms. He complied.
(What’s a key difference between Democrats back in the day and now? JFK helped put a man on the moon. Barack put freaks in girls’ bathrooms. But I digress.)
Dannel was a prosecutor, but that doesn’t mean he fought crime. He sat in an office and appeared in a courtroom guarded by police officers with handguns. Police fight crimes. Sheriff’s deputies not in Coward County fight crimes. Prosecutors all too often let the guilty walk, plea-bargain down their crimes ridiculously, or escape justice in other ways.
Nowhere in any positive biography of Dannel Malloy does it say Malloy was a serviceman or a police officer or sheriff’s deputy. So it could be his familiarity with firearms is limited to the tin can shooter he fired as a Boy Scout.
(Disclosure: I am a veteran. I have fired rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars, howitzers, and anti-aircraft guns. I have detonated various explosives. And as an officer, I pointed missiles at North Korea from a couple of miles south of the DMZ. I was only a lowly company grade officer in the Cold War, not a decorated war hero. As an officer, I made several arrests, and acquired some interesting facial scars when apprehending a combative drug pusher in our battalion. As a news reporter in Appalachia, I stopped a knucklehead prisoner who ran out of a county jail and held him so a male deputy and two female deputies could take him into custody. As a civilian, I showed a number of youths how to fire weapons, and several of them served in the military honorably. I didn’t have to put my life on the line daily like many police and deputies have to do. But I’m guessing I have more physical experience with firearms and arresting criminals than Governor Malloy does.)
In other words, I don’t think any lawman ever said to Malloy: “Book him, Dannel.”
Malloy has another problem. He is a governor of a New England state. It’s the political equivalent of size envy.
We live in the Ohio Valley, where there are real states, not county-sized statelets filled with fixers and human hemorrhoid politicians like they have in most of New England except Maine. (Maine has Susan Collins, a human hemorrhoid, but it is bigger than West Virginia and is not much smaller than Indiana.)
Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois are real states. So are Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and West Virginia. These are the states with frontage on the Ohio River. Tennessee’s rivers empty into the Ohio River, so many people count the Volunteer State as a part of the Ohio Valley too. Tennessee is a real state also.
Connecticut produced George W. Bush. Kentucky, similar in population, produced war hero president Zachary Taylor, who Abraham Lincoln looked up to. Oh, by the way, Kentucky produced Abraham Lincoln also. Illinois (at least the part of the state outside of crooked Cook County, which produced generations of organized crime figures like Hillary Clinton), where Lincoln made his name before his presidency, is the Land of Lincoln. Top that, New England.
West Virginia, with fewer than half the people of Connecticut, would whip the Nutmeggers in a fight. They have a lot more armed men and women, and they are tougher people. Even their high school kids are ruggeder.
The Marshall County, Kentucky high school murders in January didn’t trigger the outburst by Dannel Malloy and other leftists because most Kentucky people have pride and honor. The people of Marshall County asked for people’s prayers but not for media sympathy. And they are going about hardening their schools, which is what responsible adults do. Many teachers who already know firearms will soon be packing heat in the Blue Grass State.
Why is Connecticut called “The Nutmeg State?” Because some Connecticut peddlers sold women “nutmegs” they carved out of wood. In other words, Connecticut has a reputation for dishonesty almost as old as the nation itself.
Connecticut native P.T. Barnum, known for the slogan, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” did nothing to enhance the state’s reputation for honesty. Nor did all the lawyers who went to Yale like the Clintons, or the non-lawyers who went there like George H.W. Bush, whose best-known quote was, “Read my lips. No new taxes.”
If Dannel Malloy wants to do something right for a change, before the Governor’s Office door hits him on the backside, I have a project for him.
Prescott Bush (George H. W. Bush’s father and George W. Bush’s grandfather) and other former Skull & Bones fraternity punks from Yale reportedly broke into a cemetery in Fort Sill, Oklahoma in 1918, desecrated the grave of one of the American Indians buried there, and stole the skull and a leg bone from the grave so they could ship it back to their frat house. The man whose grave they robbed was supposedly Geronimo, the great Apache chief. American Indian activists have demanded the skull so it could be reburied, but no federal or local prosecutors have ordered the Yale power fraternity to give up the skull. John Kerry was an older frat brother of George W. Bush in the Skull & Bones fraternity at Yale. He did nothing either.
(More info on Prescott Bush: When Margaret Sanger made the first formal nationwide funding appeal for Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1947, her treasurer was Prescott Bush. Prescott also was a director of a bank the feds seized in 1942 because of its ties to Nazi Germany.)
Descendants of Geronimo sued the fraternity in 2009. A judge dismissed their case in 2010.
As a former prosecutor, Malloy knows or should know it is illegal to desecrate graves, and it is illegal to possess bones from a desecrated grave. Except for abortionists, who Malloy and his ilk allow to put any aborted baby tissue they are not selling down a toilet or down a garbage grinder or into an incinerator or a trashcan, people have to dispose of human remains with dignity or face criminal charges like corpse desecration or grave robbing. Although I’m guessing during Malloy’s time as governor no judge in the Nutmeg State sent any Satanist or spirit cooker or any other type of desecrator or grave robber to prison. Those human offscourings are part of the Democrat base and hierarchy too.
Instead of yammering like a knucklehead about gun control, perhaps Dannel Malloy could do something right for a change. He could order Yale’s Skull and Bones fraternity to turn over the American Indian remains they have illegally. Or he could order the state police to go in and sieze them. Then he could have the bones returned to Geronimo’s family (or to the other American Indian’s family if it turns out they are his bones and not Geronimo’s) for proper burial. It would be a basic act of decency, one that fake American Indian Elizabeth “Lieawatha” Warren from Massachusetts Colony might or might not be okay with.
(Lieawatha has been silent on Geronimo’s bones for decades. Liewatha was also silent when Gina McCarthy, the Great White Buffalo at Obama’s EPA, allowed her contractors to poison Navajo water in New Mexico and Arizona with millions of gallons of contaminated mine water from a Colorado gold mine in 2015 … and refused to order a cleanup … and the Obama EPA and Obama Justice Department refused to admit liability on sovereign immunity grounds.)
Malloy has had seven years to right this wrong, but has done nothing. I’m giving him the chance to do the right thing.
What’s the matter, Danielle? Why haven’t you done so already? Are you afraid of some college punks with rich well-connected parents?
Or are you mad at Geronimo because, unlike you, he owned a rifle and knew how to use it?
If you agree with me, you could call Gov. Malloy’s office at (860) 566-4840 or raise Nutmegger taxes by using the toll-free number (800) 406-1527. A state, even one as insignificant as Connecticut, is a terrible thing to waste.
PS: Here’s a news story on Malloy’s slimy neofascist policiy of controlling information gvern to reporters, courtesy of the 9/17/2016 Hartford Courant and reported Jon Lender:
” “He’s definitely looking to bash us in this column.”
That’s what Maura Downes, the new public information officer for the state Department of Public Health, said in an email July 13 to the governor’s office about Bob Horton, a columnist for the Greenwich Time newspaper who was asking questions about lead found in the soil outside a local middle school.
On July 15, Downes wrote another email saying she’d done some checking on Horton and now recommended “that we not respond to his questions.”
In writing those emails, Downes was complying with a recent directive from Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s top press officer, Devon Puglia. In mid-July, Puglia told about 25 executive-branch agencies’ public information officers (PIOs) to send a daily email to the governor’s office that lists all questions they received from news reporters and what responses they gave them.
The new requirement for daily press-call emails from PIOs is the latest step in a trend toward increasing coordination and control by governors’ offices — here and elsewhere — of government agencies’ communication with the public. All governors try to manage their public message, but Malloy’s office now has formalized that process.
Puglia calls it a management “innovation.” But is the Malloy administration using its roster of PIOs — many of whom make $100,000 or more in salary — to exercise tight control over the information that the public receives? Is this what people want their taxes to pay for?
Puglia says there’s no hidden agenda, that it’s more about avoiding factual errors than controlling the news.
“When it comes to management practice, this is really as basic as it gets,” he said in an emailed response to questions from the Courant. “Residents want a government that operates efficiently, one in which everyone is on the same page. That means government and the staff within it need to keep talking, because when we don’t communicate with each other as much as possible, unforced errors occur.”
More on that later. Back to Downes at the health department.
She wasn’t through with Horton, and in her July 15 email to Malloy’s office, Downes said of the columnist: “[T]his guy is like the Jonathan Pelto of Greenwich,” Downes wrote.
Not a compliment. Pelto is a longtime veteran of Connecticut Democratic politics who now writes a blog on public education and politics called “Wait What?’ and has become one of Malloy’s harshest public critics.
On July 19, Downes sent a final email about Horton to Puglia and other aides in Malloy’s office, saying she sent the following statement to the columnist: “DPH is currently in the process of reviewing data that was sent to us by the Town of Greenwich to determine if the plan proposed by the Town [to deal with the lead-in-the-soil problem] is protective of public health. We cannot comment further while this process is pending.”
She added: “Mr. Horton threatened to contact the Governor’s office if he did not get answers to his questions by the end of this week. Heads up.”
Horton ended up writing a column that was highly critical of Greenwich’s handling of the apparent lead and arsenic pollution problem near the local school, but was less critical of the state Department of Public Health.
He said near the bottom of his column that the department gave him “the usual refusal to comment on a ‘pending matter.'” But, he added: “The state last week finally told the town that it needed to test the entire Western Middle School playground before it could put modular classrooms on the site. A little late, but at least it was a step in the right direction.”
After being told on Friday what Downes had written about him, Horton said, “I wish Maura had spent more time in getting answers to my basic questions about departmental protocol and less time researching me as a columnist. Her answers were not responsive to my questions.”
Downes’ dispatches about Horton were the liveliest among 259 pages of emails that Government Watch obtained from Malloy’s office via a Freedom of Information Act request covering the first two weeks of the daily press-call emails that began in mid-July.
Most of the other PIOs’ emails weren’t as colorful, but they still documented many daily exchanges between reporters and government spokesmen that don’t necessarily show up in news reports.
On July 20, Kevin Nursick, one of the communications staffers at the Department of Transportation, said he had heard from a WTNH television news producer: “He was asking about the East Haddam Swing Bridge — possibly doing a story on ‘a day in the life’ of the bridge operator,” Nursick wrote. “After a discussion, I … suggested that there may be better opportunities for various reasons. I put him onto the idea of doing something similar with either the Glastonbury/Rocky Hill Ferry or the Chester/Hadlyme. Easy story — no negative angle.”
When bears roam through residential neighborhoods, reporters call the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection — as shown in one of three items in the July 22 email of DEEP’s spokesman, Dennis Schain:
“Hartford Courant, WFSB, NBCConnecticut — Bear in house in West Hartford. Told reporters bear entered West Hartford home. Homeowner called 911. West Hartford Police responded. Bear was gone by time they arrived. We did not respond. Explained that bears are plentiful in parts of West Hartford … but that bear entering a home was somewhat unusual, although it happens from time to time especially in parts of western CT.”
On July 14, Gary Kleeblatt, the Department of Children and Families’ spokesman, sent an email to the governor’s office listing three “Proactive Media Stories,” along with “data points” to support them. Kleeblatt indicated that his three ideas for positive stories “that we can work to place in the news media later this summer and fall” had been requested by a staff member in Malloy’s office.
One of Kleeblatt’s three story ideas: “New substance use treatment program for families at risk of having their children placed into foster care gets underway later this year and will be paid for through innovative Social Impact Bonds.”
Some days, PIOs had nothing to report in their emails. “No calls today,” Jim Carson, the spokesman for the Department of Revenue Services, wrote July 27.
“No news is good news with Gary Gnu,” Matt Smith, spokesman for the Department of Banking, wrote July 22.
Gary Gnu was a puppet newscaster character on the 1980s children’s television show “The Great Space Coaster,” and his signature phrase was “No gnews is good gnews with Gary Gnu.”
“Nothing today yo! Party on,” Lora Rae Anderson, the PIO for the state Department of Consumer Protection, wrote July 21.
So what do we make of all this — other than to take it just as a look “behind the curtain” of a state government media operation?
This is happening as the Malloy administration has begun replacing some veteran communications officers at state agencies with politically active Democrats — after the Democrat-controlled General Assembly quietly removed those posts from the state’s merit system, and made them into direct political appointments.
Critics saw this as evidence that Malloy and his people were politicizing an important public-information function. The governor’s office denied that — and Puglia, in recent days, said the motives behind the new daily press-call emails also are pure.
“This basic step, which takes our employees all of a few minutes each day to do, is as elementary as it gets when it comes to management practice,” he said. “When we aren’t on the same page, dysfunction occurs. When we are talking as a state government, we serve the public more efficiently. It’s that simple.”
He continued: “Our office, of course, plays a hands on role where relevant, and of course we occasionally make edits or suggestions to agency responses. Just like an editor might revise the copy of a reporter, and a copy editor might adjust the work of an editor, we tweak and work with our staff to punch up their external communications. And when two agencies might be giving conflicting information to a reporter (specifically because they aren’t talking to each other), of course we step in. That’s why we’re believers that the more information we share with each other, the more effective and efficient we’ll be.”
“This process – which is about as basic an organizational step as any manager of cross-functional systems can introduce — is something I personally initiated,” Puglia said. “It’s an innovation. And being innovative in an age in which information travels faster than ever before, and in an age in which speed and response time for reporters is demanded, is absolutely critical to being effective. … The process helps us plan, helps us move and
respond more quickly, and helps us improve work product so we can better serve journalists and serve the public. That’s why it only makes too much sense.”
Puglia will be leaving his job in Malloy’s office within weeks, and his replacement as communications chief has been named: Kelly Donnelly, who most recently served as chief of staff at the state Department of Education.”
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END NOTES
Info on Prescott Bush’s desecration of an American Indian grave and the fraternity link of his grandson and John Kerry comes from CBS News (6/13/2004), and the Yale Herald (10/24/2003). Other info comes from Kitty Kelley’s Bush book called “The Family.”
Sources include a 2/19/2009 New York Times article, and an article by Oklahoma writer Roxann Perkins Yates in the 2/17/2015 issue of Red Dirt Report, an Oklahoma publication.
