The state's Republican Party Chairman says he will write Tuesday to the state's top criminal prosecutor, Chief State's Attorney Kevin Kane, to request an investigation of the release of a state list of low-number license plate holders by a top aide in the office of Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
Republican chief Chris Healy said, "I just think that someone adult needs to look at this, and ask the people in charge who did it, what was their motivation, and why did the system break down?"
Healy's intended missive to Kane continues the "PlateGate" controversy touched off last Thursday when Courant columnist Kevin Rennie posted an item on his Daily Ructions Internet blog. Rennie disclosed that in the final months that Republican M. Jodi Rell was governor, the state Department of Motor Vehicles issued dozens of exclusive two- and three-digit license plates to an elite group of insiders including Rell, her husband, her son and her son's in-laws, her then-chief of staff, M. Lisa Moody, current state Senate Republican Leader John McKinney of Fairfield, and other Rell loyalists.