So it turns out Lisa Moody, who apparently comes from the Palin school of executive branch governance, was withholding emails from the Courant, why doesn't this surprise me? They had to file a FOI to find a missing third email:
...it turns out that a third e-mail was missing from the stack of printouts that Rell's office provided 1½ weeks ago in response to The Courant's request.
The third one - obtained last week via a renewed FOI request, after sources said the administration withheld it - puts a new, sharper edge on the e-mail exchange.
Here's the full exchange, including all three e-mails:
•At 2:13 p.m. on Sept. 1, three hours before Rell's televised announcement at 5:15 p.m., chief gubernatorial legal counsel Anna Ficeto e-mailed Moody to say "based on a reading of the CT constitution and case law, the Governor's exercise of line item veto would require her approval and signature of the remainder of the bill."
•A half-hour later, Genuario, head of the Office of Policy and Management, e-mailed Moody to say Ficeto's message was consistent with advice he'd received from top OPM deputy Jeffrey Beckham, also an attorney. Genuario wrote: "Our two lawyers agree. Isn't that amazing?"
•"The Governor and I don't we win (isn't that amazing)" That's how Moody replied to Genuario a minute later, in the previously missing e-mail that Rell's office finally released Friday.
The third e-mail adds an element; it is consistent with the reputation of Rell's publicity-avoiding staff chief, Moody, for stubbornness and combative partisanship. Moody, who once was suspended for conducting political fundraising efforts on the job at the Capitol, is widely feared among Rell's agency commissioners.
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