Top aide to Connecticut Democrat Speaker of the House Chris Donovan, one Laura Jordan , Esq., turns out to have spent her time last legislative session emailing and texting status reports on the cigarette roll-your-own bill to Donovan’s former chief of staff who was passing along cash to Donovan to get it killed. But nothing wrong or unusual about that, according to Donovan’s protectors.
House Majority Leader Brendan Sharkey, D-Hamden … said that [that] although the indictment describes communications between the aide and Nassi, “There is nothing in the indictment that suggests that there was anything that took place to compromise legislation.”
“What we have from the indictment is an allegation from the federal authorities that text communications took place between Josh Nassi and an aide,” Sharkey said. “Nothing in the indictment says that the next thing occurred — which is if there was communication that was done to affect that legislation. Nothing like that’s been alleged.”
You understand how that works, right? Donovan’s top aide chats regularly with Donovan’s campaign Nassi on lots of subjects: “How’s your mother?” “How ’bout them Red Sox, eh?” And “oh, by the way, that bill our boss is supposed to be burying? Here’s what’s going on with that”. That’s just two old friends catching up with each other and, as Mr. Sharkey says, nothing to indicate even a whiff of corruption.
UPDATE: Attorney Jordan has now taken a leave of absence. ”To spend more time with her family” is usually the explanation proffered in these cases.
Dude –
So here is where we stand going into today.
We have 54 total medals and 26 gold. The Sesame Shrimps have 53 medals and 25 gold, so it is still as tight as a woman volleyballers ass. The Brit’s had a really good day yesterday, with 29 medals and 14 gold’s overall, putting them solidly in third place ahead of the South Korean dog eaters, who have 9 gold and 17 overall. So that is good, because they speak American. Did you know we had to beat them up a couple of hundred years ago? But since then, they have behaved, and now are our friends. The Frogs have retreated to fifth.
We did really great in swimming as expected, and we still have some of our best events coming up. So while it will be nip and tuck, at the end of the day, we will win this thing, assuming some huge upsets don’t occur. But I am not counting my egg drops early, as anything can still happen.
Today is a jammed packed day. Woman’s Marathon. We won’t win that. Beach volleyball!! Tennis and lots of track and field. I think all the fake events are over, so that will hurt the Chinks. But there is still some diving today, and they always win that. The frigging snow peas!! The Williams sisters go for the gold in doubles, and we should win that. And woman’s water polo midday!!
I will report back later. Live from my living room.
Brunch today or are you at the Mars family reunion?
Your Pal,
Walt
Pay to play, the hallmark of Connecticut Legislators since time began.
Dude –
Women’s basketball is on – USA ladies vs. Moo Shu lesbians. This is an event we have to win. If the Mao Mao lesbians prove superior to our lesbians, what will that say about our Country? I don’t know, actually, but it must mean something!!
It will certainly mean another medal for the Szechuan Hoard, and we don’t want that to happen. Right?
Their point guard, Sum Ting Wong, is a really great player, so keep your eye on her. Their center, Mi So Tall, is also a force to be contended with. And their forward, Wai Yam Igay, is also a great player. And their coach, Miteach Laz Bo, is second to none. So don’t get over confident.
Anyhows, are you really selling dirt? REALLY?? Good for you!!
You load.
Your Pal,
Walt
Dude –
Woman’s Water Polo is on. USA vs. the Italians. I would think our woman could swim a lot faster than them, because they don’t have hairy legs and armpits, right? Plus no mustaches. So no drag in the pool.
But the Wop’s are up 2-0, so I am a little worried. What does Wop mean, anyway? It makes no sense. Why Only Pasta?
Anyhows, USA Woman’s Basketball made chop suey of the Commie shrimp rolls. It was close at the end of the first perio… It was close at the end of the first quarter. But then our Gal’s manned up and dominated them. The USA woman probably feel really good about themselves right now, but they will probably want to do it again in about 2 hours.
The next Olympics are in Rio. I have never been there, but hear good things about it. I hear there are tons of bubble butts.
Want to go, Amigo? We can explore for the elusive pink taco!!
Your Pal,
Walt
Best explanation of the term wop (and as always with stupid explanations relying on acronyms, don’t believe them – “wop” does not mean “without papers”, just as “posh” never meant “port outbound, starboard home”, etc.) is this one:
That said, I’m not certain who first came up with the aphorism, “never let a dago by, kill the damn Italian!”, but it was probably Shakespeare.
Walt, In Rio they don’t speak “taco”/spanish they speak portuguese, because it is in Brazil.