Hush, Hush, Voices Carry (Part II)

A couple of days back I blogged about a CT Democrat lawmaker who thought a sex abuse allegation could be swept under the rug for $100K. http://thenextright.com/ironman/hush-hush-voices-carry

Well, we did not have to wait 'til Tuesday for this guy to hang it up, he smelled the latte tonight and announced he's quitting, effective immediately 

 http://www.registercitizen.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20171365&BRD=1652&PAG=461&dept_id=665579&rfi=6

but the damage has been done to the CT Democrats, as this afternoon Speaker James Amann confirmed that his party's sernior leadership knew back in 2004 that Rep. Wilber was being sued over alleged abuse to a girl who was 11 at the time of the incident, and blithely blessed his re-election bids and contributed heavily to his re-election bids http://www.courant.com/news/local/statewire/hc-20200022.apds.m0835.bc-ct--lawmoct20,0,3433000.story http://www.everydayrepublican.com/2008/10/20/breaking-news-wilber-to-resign-for-health-reasons/

What is even more sad is that the Democrats always had a huge majority in the state house; even though Wilber's seat leans Republican it's not like they'd have missed him had he stepped down and a new candidate lost. So much for caring about protecting children from abuse, eh?

But, the CT Democrats are really picking winners these days. Their candidate in a Bridgeport district, Auden Grogins, is representing (at taxpayer expense) the most heinous criminal in CT history, Joshua Komisarjevsky.  http://connpolitics.tv/index.php/2008/08/13/atty-for-cheshire-murder-suspect-wins-pr 

Given the moral compass of George Wilber and Auden Grogins, is there any surprise which political party traditionally opposes effective measures to protect women, children and  seniors in CT?

As for that other hush money scandal, Florida's Tim Mahoney is now out one spouse, http://www.wptv.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=7284e030-a7c2-461d-b456-ea593392c67f&rss=762 and one political party ad campaign http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Politics/story?id=6073940&page=1. Hey, there are a lot of nice tiki bars in Florida for guys in a midlife crisis looking for affection. Life could be worse. At least you won't have to worry about Rahm Emanuel anymore.