80k for prostitutes? The NYT headline, Felled by Scandal, Spitzer Says Focus Is on His Family.

Ah yes, if only Spitzer remembered:

h/t Monsieur French.

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Ah, finally something to move the presidential primaries off the front pages of local New York centric papers. A good old fashioned political prostitution story. This should last for days. Former high flying NY AG, now governor, Eliot Spitzer caught as client number 9 at the Mayflower. Hrmmm, Mayflower, wasn’t that a familiar prostitution call girl name in NYC not so long ago?  Love the irony  here.

What I’d like to know is why the ringleaders only kept 19k in Euros and $600k in dollars. At the rate of the dollar’s decline they could have been charging in euros and adding to the profits.

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By popular request ….

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Better fill your tanks. Gas pundits, let’s pause for a moment reveling in that turn of phrase, are predicting that gas prices will inch up 1 to 3 cents a day. Over at connecticutgasprices.com you can check out where the highest and lowest gas prices are to be found.

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Last week it was bottled water. Today its clotheslines. I guess because property tax reform isn’t an issue residents really care about. The gist of this hot issue apparently is that there’s some energy costs savings to be had if people dry their laundry on clotheslines instead of in dryers. Yeah, ok, call captain obvious on that one.

But some people apparently live in condo associations or communities that have by-laws that prohibit the venerable clothesline. Not just the clothesline, but some associations take great pleasure on prohibiting and regulating all sorts of things under “aesthetic” reasons like flags, window treatments, garden sheds.

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Lots of action at City Hall last night, but I’ve got some editing to do. Meanwhile discuss whatever.

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Reality based politics is apparently something that Connecticut will sadly, not ever experience. Last week, Hartford was atwitter over water. Lights, camera, action type atwitter because it was the legislature that was galvanized to do something, anything, about water. Because we all stay awake at night thinking about how Hartford drinks. Other than kool-aide of course.

From the Courant:

State Rep. Beth Bye, a Democrat from West Hartford has a simple idea that promises to promote health, cut costs of state government, help the environment and reduce our thirst for petroleum: Encourage state workers to drink tap water instead of the bottled variety.

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Nice to see the low level dealers being targeted but where’s the linkage to the guys who import?

The U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Kevin J. O’Connor, announced Wednesday that 22 people — 16 from Norwalk and Stamford — have been indicted on federal charges for allegedly distributing cocaine and crack in southwestern Connecticut.
In a news release, O’Connor said the 30-count indictment was returned on Feb. 14 by a federal grand jury sitting in Bridgeport, and accuses the people named with various federal drug trafficking, firearm and witness tampering offenses.

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Naturally I drove down Strawberry Hill Rd tonight. Lights were off at NHS and Nathan Hale.

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Today’s thematically inspired posting:

Otherwise this is an open thread. Say what’s on your mind.

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