Kevin Rennie: Ann Lamont’s emails show an administration in flux
Emails to and from
From soda to health care to the land mine of tolls, the messages provide a look at an administration run by people with little experience wrestling with an independent legislature and intricate bureaucracy. Lamont receives advice from a wide range of sources. His accomplished wife appears at times to be his most vocal advisor -- though not always aware of the unintended consequences of change.
The wealthy governor grew so irked with the legislature’s resistance to his budget that he -- apparently joking -- proposed to his staff that the state limit legislators’ health insurance coverage in retaliation for opposing his unpopular tax on soda.
“Let’s cap legislators health insurance claims, given their showy addiction 16 ounce Sodas, it could be very expensive to the next generation. Show picture 🙂 let’s go on the offense,” Lamont wrote in an email that included his wife, who responded, “Love it!” The proposal came at the end of a message expressing dismay that his administration was playing too much defense.
But another insider got caught up in the sugary drink mess. In January,
Nooyi, the celebrated corporate face of sugary drinks for years, was in a spot in February when her friend
Nooyi is a trooper. The legislature killed the tax and Nooyi soldiers on, trying to serve
Indeed, the workload is heavy, and to
Damaging as Lamont’s toll odyssey has been, it would have been worse if he’d followed the advice of deputy chief of staff
In a
Maybe next year.
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