A Little Respect, Please…
HARTFORD — Thirty minutes to read a hundred-page bill? Is that anyway to run government? Well, that’s what’s going on at the Capitol these days, where majority-party Democrats run the show. They continue to unveil complex, budget-related legislation late at night — hours and hours after the time they asked Republicans to show up in Hartford. Disappointed GOPers were forced to vote on bills after midnight — bills they barely had a chance to read. Early Friday, about an hour after midnight, House Republican Leader Larry Cafero asked Democrat leadership to give his colleagues a break from the waiting game. And Gov. M. Jodi Rell on Friday morning called the super-majority inefficient while telling reporters that Democrats have mastered the art of “hurry-up-and-wait.”

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