Post by Logan on Jun 3, 2016 7:36:55 GMT -6
HARTFORD — Connecticut Democrats are a house divided.
Don’t blame this family feud on Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders.
Inside the party’s annual fundraising banquet in Hartford, the establishment wing gave a standing ovation Thursday night to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who gave a full-throated defense of his austerity budget.
But outside the Connecticut Convention Center, hundreds of union picketers in a beef with Malloy and majority Democrats in the Legislature over state employee layoffs tried to upstage the event.
There was no direct mention by Malloy of the 1,000 pink slips handed out by the state, which his administration has called a last resort to close a $1 billion deficit. The layoff number could double.
Read more: www.ctpost.com/local/article/Union-beef-with-Malloy-upstages-Democratic-7960582.php
Don’t blame this family feud on Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders.
Inside the party’s annual fundraising banquet in Hartford, the establishment wing gave a standing ovation Thursday night to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who gave a full-throated defense of his austerity budget.
But outside the Connecticut Convention Center, hundreds of union picketers in a beef with Malloy and majority Democrats in the Legislature over state employee layoffs tried to upstage the event.
There was no direct mention by Malloy of the 1,000 pink slips handed out by the state, which his administration has called a last resort to close a $1 billion deficit. The layoff number could double.
Read more: www.ctpost.com/local/article/Union-beef-with-Malloy-upstages-Democratic-7960582.php