A chance encounter with a Courant reporter Thursday afternoon provided a sign of how Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz’s mind is occupied with her ongoing lawsuit to be declared eligible to run for attorney general.<\/p>\n
It happens that Bysiewicz encountered Courant Capitol bureau chief Chris Keating in the Legislative Office Building in Hartford on the same day that videos were released of her testimony in a recent deposition — which was part of her ongoing fight to convince a judge that her 11 years in office count as the the practice of law.<\/p>\n
A state statute says you need to have 10 years’ “active practice” in the legal profession in Connecticut to run for state attorney general – and the Republican Party’s lawyer spent hours in the deposition trying to show that Bysiewicz doesn’t. A number of observers have noted that she doesn’t seem too happy about the whole thing.<\/p>\n
So, anyway, Keating was walking down a flight of stairs in the LOB while Bysiewicz walked up from the bottom alone, talking on a cell phone. As they passed halfway up the stairs, he greeted her but she didn’t respond as the phone stayed glued to her ear.<\/p>\n
Once she reached the top, she turned and called down to him: “Pardon me. I’m actively practicing law.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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