From the Connecticut House of Representatives:
A photo of two Democratic legislators playing solitaire has ignited controversy at the state Capitol and in the blogosphere.You'll note in the photo that another lawmaker who wasn't pictured but appears to be sitting on the Democrat side of the House was watching baseball.
The Associated Press picture has appeared in any number of venues, and it shows two lawmakers sitting in the back row of the historic Hall of the House in Hartford during the lengthy debate over the two-year, $37 billion state budget.
On the left is Rep. Barbara Lambert, a freshman Democrat from Milford who won her first legislative election in November 2008. She replaced longtime Milford Democrat James Amann, who ended his legislative career as the House Speaker and is now running for governor against Republican M. Jodi Rell.
Lambert is playing spider solitaire in the photo, while Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, a Bridgeport Democrat who has served in Hartford since 2005, is playing regular solitaire. They both voted in favor of the Democratic-written budget, while Cafero voted against it.
During the long debates at the state Capitol, legislators often work on their laptop computers - as seen in the photograph. Sometimes they are answering e-mails from constituents, while other times they are researching important information on pending bills. Other times, they are playing solitaire.
When asked Tuesday about the photo by Capitol Watch, Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell laughed and said, "I think if they'd spend less time playing computer games and more time looking for spending cuts, then we would have been out of here a lot sooner.''
You want to make progress in the House? Make everybody close their laptops and pay attention...like they do in school.
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And we wonder why our State and Federal Governments are in such a mess, this explains it!!! These politicians should be THROWN (voted) out of office at the next election, they are not worthy of holding such an office. They are worse than school children that cheat on their tests. They are doing nothing less than stealing from the taxpayers.
They're also too dumb to get the privacy screens I see at the doctor's office. They prevent one from looking over the shoulder of the receptionist and reading the screen.
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