CT-02: Just How Weird Is Rob Simmons?

by: BranfordBoy

Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 18:06:03 PM EDT

So maybe his involvement with his whacko intern Tom Misenti isn't all that out of the ordinary.

We ask these questions because surely Simmons, the self-aggrandizing former CIA operative, must have vetted the candidates before exposing Washington to someone with Misenti's special interests in risky behavior, guns, and gaming violence.  Yet he either discovered them and chose to capitalize on these interests or never discovered these interests at all.

Once Misenti arrived in Washington to work for Simmons he claimed to frequent bars that patronized underaged drinking.  Did the Simmons operation introduce him to this lifestyle?  We are left to wonder aloud and lament that a Connecticut House Representative apparently left the impression on Misenti that unlawful behavior, anything goes, and insider politics are the right stuff.