Gov. John G. Rowland: doeth as I quoteth, not as I doeth

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

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... The governor obliquely referred to his political troubles as well when he quoted a poem sent in an encouraging e-mail.

"If you are successful you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway," Rowland read.


"Be honest and frank"?!!?!!?!?
It took him FIVE years to be "honest" about who paid for the work done at his vacation cottage; he STILL has yet to be "frank" about why state contractors and his on-the-state-payroll subordinates paid for the material and labor.

[NewJeffCT]

1. frank?

According to www.m-w.com, frank is defined:

1 : marked by free, forthright, and sincere expression <a frank reply>
2 a : unmistakably evident <frank materialism> b : clinically evident and unmistakable <frank pus>

Synonyms are plain, open and candid.

This is from a man who, when he first ran for governor, had a friend of his in the Waterbury Police Department cover-up the police report of an incident where his ex-wife called the cops on him. Rumor has it that he had slapped her around and/or pushed her down a flight of stairs. But, the local media was turned down in their Freedom of Information request... so, we never found out for sure.