Brows Furrow: Nonprofit Alliance Picks Malloy Slasher Casa to Lead It.

The CT Community Nonprofit Alliance has gambled on short memories in the legislature. The organization that represents more than 500 non-profit organizations, the Hartford Business Journal reports, has hired relentless Malloy administration attacker Gian-Carl Casa as its chief executive officer. He begins his new job at the end of the month.

Casa must have steered the organization’s search committee away from the many detractors he made as a prime mouthpiece for the Malloy administration’s scorching rhetoric. Attacks on anyone with a different point of view–not necessarily critics–could count on abuse from Casa and his master, budget chief Benjamin “permanent crisis” Barnes.

The do-gooding alliance cannot have factored possible Republican legislative gains this November into their hiring calculations. Casa aimed much of his escalating contempt at Republicans. They have not forgotten the sting of the relentless partisan vitriol he spewed at them as he made excuses for the failures of the Malloy administration. Plenty of Democrats in the legislature with long memories also felt the lash.

Nonprofits, observers note, have carried much of the burden of spending cuts while the Malloy administration continues to find plenty of money for crony capitalism favorites. Casa has been a regular defender of those harsh policies.