I don’t know much about Chris Donovan, the man who replaced Jim Amann as speaker of the Connecticut House, but I was certainly prepared to be well disposed toward him, since he was replacing Jim Amann, a man who truly needed to be replaced. Apparently, Donovan himself didn’t agree with that basic premise, because Amann’s legislative seat was still warm whenDonovan offered him a cushy $120,000.00 job at the legislature. The move isn’t unprecedented, but that doesn’t make in any the less outrageous.
Amann was a terrible Speaker of the House, a man who stood in the way of any meaningful progressive activity in this State and a traitor to the Democratic Party. Somehow, according to Donovan, that all makes him “larger than life”.
So now we taxpayers can indirectly subsidize Amann’s delusional run for governor. Oh wait, I’m sorry, we’re going to be getting real value for that $120,000.00:
Donovan’s office also provided a list of official duties, which states that Amann will be responsible for meeting with lobbyists and summarizing their requests for Donovan; reviewing bonding requests from legislators; and occasionally “working out differences of opinion” on “smaller legislative matters.”
I’m sure that Amann will find all those meetings with lobbyists especially onerous as he runs for governor and tries to fill his campaign war chest. Reviewing bond requests is even more backbreaking. Handing out money to people whose support you are currying is a dirty job, but someone has to do it, I guess. Good thing that Amann is a man of spotless integrity, or one might suspect that he could use this “job” to his own political advantage.
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