A new "The Rell Center for Public Service" is to be established at the University of Hartford, and invitations have been sent to political insiders and prominent business people for a Dec. 7 fund-raising event to help with the project.
According to the invitations, when went out over the weekend, the Rell Center will "instruct and encourage integrity and responsible participation in government and public service. The center will offer lectures, panel discussions, symposia, and forums on important local and regional issues."
Columnist Kevin Rennie has a sardonic take on the establishment of the new institute in this "Daily Ructions" blog item. Rennie writes that the fundraising event in Cromwell will be on "the 5th anniversary of Rell's calamitous campaign fundraising event that snagged a passel of her administration's members in a money-raising scheme directed out of Rell's chief of staff's [M. Lisa Moody's] office."