Below is a statement issued by the State Employees Bargaining Unit Coalition on Attorney General George Jepsen's dismissal of the union's complaint against the Yankee Institute for Public Policy:
"Leaders of the unions in SEBAC appreciate the attorney general's looking into our complaint against the Yankee Institute and respect his legal conclusions. It's disappointing that the state's email system is apparently arranged so that outside groups can get around inadequate software restrictions and distribute emails through the system without being in violation of computer hacking laws -- and apparently without even being subject to detection. We continue to believe that doing so using assumed names for the purpose of disrupting a free and fair democratic vote is immoral, if not illegal.
"The Yankee Institute's interest in this matter remains the same -- producing painful job cuts and "downsizing" state government, which is really just code for privatizing public services.
"The misinformation previously encouraged by the Yankee Institute has been addressed by new language in the revised tentative agreement union leaders reached with the Malloy Administration.
"Union leaders have no doubt the Yankee Institute will continue regardless. We would respect them much more -- though obviously not agree with them -- if they would openly admit what their motives are for getting involved in state workers' elections. We would also respect them more if they stopped employing people as in-house propagandists that masquerade as 'investigative reporters.'"