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Ned Lamont is feeling Ryan Fazio in the rearview mirror. You can tell, because the governor has stopped talking about his record and started producing a Halloween special. His latest production involves a pastor and a very scary story.
| When a three-term governor has to borrow moral authority from the sanctuary, the race is not going as planned. |
The claim is that Fazio wrote a bill to let ICE wander through churches and schools. As political attacks go, the ratio of fabrication to fact is overwhelming.
Here’s the actual story. As state senator, Fazio — with Republicans and Democrats — opposed a sanctuary-style bill that would have tightened Connecticut’s limits on cooperating with federal immigration authorities. Opposing an expansion of sanctuary policy is not “authoring an invitation.” It is not a bill Fazio wrote. It is a vote against a Supermajority hobbyhorse. Shame on you, Ned. If the facts were on your side, you would not need to invent them.
Meanwhile, in the Administration That Never Sees a Thing
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In other news, the legacy press has performed another miracle of omission. Almost no one mentions that former Deputy Budget Director Kosta Diamantis is a Democrat. Since no one else will say it, we will. He is a Democrat.
Diamantis, a former Democratic state representative, was first installed by Democrat Dannel Malloy to oversee school construction money — the slush pile where contractors go to get blessed. Ned Lamont then promoted him to Deputy Budget Director while allowing him to keep the school construction gig. Two titles. One trough.
Recently, the man skipped his federal sentencing and fled the country. Prosecutors say the itinerary was Florida, a boat to the Bahamas, a flight toward London, and then Greece. A federal jury had already convicted him on 21 counts — extortion, bribery, conspiracy, and lying to FBI agents. He surrendered his U.S. passport, and still found a way out. Dual citizenship is a wonderful travel perk when you are accused of taking more than $75,000 in bribes while overseeing hundreds of millions in state school-construction money.
The Democratic comptroller has now stopped the direct deposit on Diamantis’s pension — about $75,000 a year, paid by the same taxpayers he shook down. Stopped. Not revoked. The check is paused. The entitlement lives. That is a story for another day, and it will be a good one.
All of this unfolded under the “watchful eye” of Lamont’s Democratic administration. Watchful, apparently, in the same way a night watchman is watchful during his nightly nap.
Last Week in Hartford’s Governing Party
So let us review last week in Hartford’s governing party. On television: a pastor warning that Fazio will storm the nave. In federal court: an empty chair where Lamont’s own deputy budget director was supposed to sit and be sentenced.
Ryan Fazio did not write an ICE-in-the-pews bill. Ned Lamont did promote Kosta Diamantis. These facts are conveniently absent from your mainstream news, but we will always give you the truth.
