Our newly elected state representative, Chris Conley, had a bit of bad luck recently. Well, she had two pieces of bad luck, but lets start with the latest.
A few weeks ago Chris broke her leg in two places. It was a nasty break, and as a result, Chris missed some committee meetings in Hartford, though she’s now attending, albeit in a wheelchair.
This is where her second piece of bad luck comes to the fore. It seems someone has it in for Chris, a political foe, of whose identity one can only speculate. Far be it from me to point the finger at any self interested former state legislator who Chris may have beaten in the last election.
The local Republicans have mounted a Facebook campaign as well as a letter writing campaign against Chris for, of all things, missing meetings in Hartford. The Facebook post was straight out of the national Republican playbook, complete with an unflattering picture of half of Chris’s face, ala Trump’s treatment of Cruz’s wife. Their original Facebook posting failed to mention the exigent circumstances. When commenters pointed this out, the Republicans (again, I won’t point any fingers as to the person responsible, although I’m Just Saying that his initials might be discerned from a couple of words appearing in sequence tween these parentheses) claimed that she had missed a lot of meetings before the accident, which, not to put too fine a point on it, was a lie.
Even the New London Day, no friend to Democrats, felt compelled to put an editorial disclaimer after a letter attributed to a person named Christopher Bowen, who claimed that she had been removed from two committees due to poor attendance, which the actual author of the letter claimed took place prior to the accident. The Day corrected that, and noted that she’d been removed from the committees temporarily due to the injury. I should add here that there’s no crime involved in getting people to sign Letters to the Editor; we do it too. I’m Just Saying that this particular letter appears to be of that ilk, and though I’m not pointing any fingers, I’m Just Saying that there’s a former legislator who is what we used to call a sore loser when I was a kid.
My wife put a comment on the Facebook post. She was Just Saying that it was fake news, and in response someone (can’t imagine who) Just Said, on behalf of the Republicans, that she and her husband were the actual purveyors of fake news. Needless to say I was a bit surprised, inasmuch as I had not yet entered the fray. Heck, at the time, I was only dimly aware of the fray. Anyway, on reflection, I’m Just Saying that whoever (not pointing fingers, mind you) accused me of spreading fake news might be upset about a few blog posts of mine in which I Just Said that a former state legislator had a conflict of interest in proposing legislation primarily designed to benefit himself. I’ve no proof mind you, I’m Just Saying.
Afterword: Just Saying, but if the mystery person (I truly can’t imagine who) who accused me of spreading fake news would like to get specific I’d love to hear from him. (A little birdy told me it’s not a her) I don’t know whether to feel insulted or complimented. We Democrats haven’t exactly been adept in the fake news department, as we don’t seem to spread it and we have trouble combatting it, so coming from a Republican, it may be intended as a compliment.
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