June 2010

While Courant columnist Rick Green and I vehemently disagree about state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s continued suitability to be Connecticut’s Top Legal Officer after his lies about Vietnam military service, Green and I are on the same page when it comes to Martha Dean, the Avon attorney who is making another run at the Attorney General’s post.

In Green’s column today headlined “Martha Dean, A Candidate Who Shoots From The Hip,” she is diplomatically described as a fringe candidate.

I don’t mince my words (perhaps that is why my attorney Joe Garrison of New Haven keeps urging me to take out libel insurance for my “intemperate” comments).

I think Dean is a whack job.

The more she talks about her beliefs, and how she would run the state Attorney General’s office, the more you are going to see that she might even make some Tea Party members cringe.

I first wrote about Dean, who had run unsuccessfully against Blumenthal in 2002, earlier in the year when she announced that she would run again this year.

In her press conference announcing her candidacy, said she would run a much different, less anti-business office.

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s self-inflicted Vietnamgate is getting to be a real quagmire for the former Mr. Clean, who used to have a reputation for integrity, even by his political opponents. Ever since the…

The following story appeared in today’s edition of the New London Day:

New London Day: Blumenthal Critic Had His Share Of Problems In State’s AG Office

By Ted Mann

The assistant attorney general who this week accused his boss, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, of lying to him about having served in Vietnam has clashed in the past with superiors in the attorney general’s office.

Maybe instead of spending a large chunk of his time talking to reporters, state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal should have spent more time actually managing his office. Connecticut Post Reporter Ken Dixon wrote today that…

The vast majority of the Connecticut media is proving to be an embarrassment to the journalism profession as they either ignore or twist the facts in Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s Vietnamgate. As of 2 p.m….

NBC’s Tom Monahan, one of the few Connecticut political journalists who give as accurate account of the latest “shoe to drop” in Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s Vietnamgate.

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A veteran Connecticut Assistant Attorney General claims that Richard Blumenthal falsely told him 18 years ago that he had served as a Marine in Vietnam.

“It is the most despicable disgusting thing,” assistant attorney general Richard R. Hine told me in a telephone interview this morning.

Hine, a 24-year veteran trial attorney working for Blumenthal, said not only did Blumenthal lie to him 18 years ago about serving in Vietnam, he had heard Blumenthal make similar false statements at about five functions the two attended together over the years. He said he could not pinpoint any of the five. Blumenthal is now the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Chris Dodd.

While the rest of the Connecticut media has forgotten or forgiven (or pretended it never happened) state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s false claims at scores of speeches to veterans that he served as a Marine…