Lamont Emits the Powerful and Obnoxious Odor of Mendacity Over Test Kits That Got Away.

The Covid home test kits were mired in supply chain troubles. They were not stuck in a warehouse. They were not delayed in a cargo plane waiting in line to take off.

Governor Ned Lamont never secured the first 500,000 home test kits that were to have arrived in Connecticut Wednesday and been distributed by the state’s 169 towns beginning today. Nothing is on its way.

Lamont said Thursday he believed there was a contract and knew there was an agreement. The Greenwich Democrat engaged in some astounding hairsplitting as he faced the press upon returning from Florida Thursday to try to rescue a gobsmacking own-goal in the final week of the year. Lamont and his administration claim they are the victims of multiple misrepresentations from the supplier Lamont declined to identify in his painful appearance in East Hartford.

“I think we got a little ahead of ourselves, to tell you the truth,” Lamont explained in a memorable understatement of the wounds he inflicted on his credibility in four days.

The best the Harvard and Yale Management School graduate can claim is he was duped as his administration spiked the ball at the start of a very bad week for an incumbent governor seeking a second term.

Published December 30, 2021.