Klarides Condemns Consorting.

House Minority Leader Themis Klarides (R-Derby) discovered her tipping point for supporting loathsome demagogue Donald Trump in Tuesday’s Republican primary. Klarides, according to the Hartford Courant, was “partly swayed by distaste for a deal that Cruz and Kasich cut over the weekend to try and block Trump’s path to the nomination.” Her fleeting disdain for a deal between rivals was too much. She decided she’d support the candidate who wants to punish women who have abortions. She had perviously criticized the real estate developer for his treatment of women.

The Klarides doctrine won’t stand. Capitol observers continue to note how close Klarides has become to her opposite number, House Majority Leader Joseph Aresimowicz (D-Berlin). The Derby Republican and Berlin Democrat raised eyebrows when a photograph of them together appeared as Aresimowicz’s profile picture on his Facebook page. The public display of the alliance raised further concerns among Republican troops and officers that at least one Democrat has a line into a source useful information about GOP intentions that gets shared with him long before the House Republican.