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Report: Gov.’s Chief of Staff Off-The-Hook For Taking Email List

by Christine Stuart | September 19, 2008 5:35 PM
Posted to State Capitol

Paul Bass file photo

Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s chief of staff, M. Lisa Moody, used state time and equipment to provide the governor’s 2006 election campaign an official state email list, according to Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s report.

Blumenthal’s 30-page, 13-month investigation released Friday said Moody did not violate a law banning state employees from using state resources for political activities because she is a political appointee, not a classified state employee.

Blumenthal’s report found it took about 90 seconds for Moody or her staff to grab the email list, which according to the report was public information.

“Never has so much been wasted for so long for so little result,” Chris Healy, Republican State Party Chairman said in an emailed statement Friday.

“Dick Blumenthal’s 13-month inquiry demonstrates why he has outlived his usefulness. The only people who benefited were the lawyers that many fine people had to hire to protect their reputations which Blumenthal and Democrats sought unsuccessfully to question. Dick Blumenthal owes us a refund,” Healy said.

Blumenthal’s report was prompted by a whistleblower complaint and investigated with the help of the Auditors of Public Accounts.

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