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February 14, 2011
No Revolving Door Here....technically
Marc Comtois
"Former majority leader now a lobbyist" blares the ProJo Political Scene headline. Meh says us. What else is new, right?
Little more than a month after leaving the General Assembly, former Senate Majority Leader Daniel Connors is back at the State House as a lobbyist.Nope, just getting introduced, it turns out. Not that there's anything wrong with lobbying the Governor.Asked what he was doing as he exited the office of one of new Governor Chafee’s staffers earlier this week, lawyer Connors said: “Not lobbying.”
The state’s “revolving door” law bars Connors from lobbying his former colleagues in the General Assembly for a year after leaving office, and the company said his employment contract prohibits him from directly or indirectly taking part in the company’s effort to lobby or engage in any business with the General Assembly on behalf of its clients during his first year of his employment.Seems like that's not quite within the "spirit" of the law, does it? But who's really surprised.But no law stops Connors from lobbying the new Chafee administration.
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Connors just oozes sleaze. For anyone that needs proof, we can simply show the video of him shooting down Cote's bill last year.
Or show the brand new telephone pole that get got erected in Cumberland after skidding over 200 feet and crashing into, and then walking a mile to David Cruise's house. Even though he was sober and going under the speed limit.
Posted by: Patrick at February 14, 2011 12:50 PMThis "loophole" is a prime example of how the sleaziest corruption is baked into the government system in RI.
Posted by: BobN at February 14, 2011 2:17 PM