Colin McEnroe wrote about the extraordinary crass display of resentment by Cathy Lambert Malloy at Wednesday’s inauguration. He is right. That is one nasty piece of work.

American public life reserves a special place of ridicule for the sore winner. Lambert Malloy, who is said to have something to do with the arts, has complained of her life as a second-class citizen because the public does not provide her with a car that she thinks suits her. Second-class no more, her crass swing at vanquished Republican Tom Foley renders her simply classless.

Connecticut has found its state embarrassment. Lambert Malloy is a charm-free zone.

And for Paris.

Democrat Luke Bronin will seek a fast start in fundraising in the 2015 Hartford race for mayor, Daily Ructions has learned. Look for Bronin, who has shallow roots in Hartford, to tap into his ties to wealthy Greenwich, where Bronin’s from, for early fuel. Cash is always helpful in a Hartford campaign. Bonin’s tenure as Governor Dannel P. Malloy’s legal counsel will also have provided some useful contacts and allies.

Incumbent mayor Pedro Segarra will need to resurrect early in the year the campaign organization that he has neglected since he won a full term in 2011. Many Segarra loyalists are baffled that they have had almost no contact with the mayor in the last three years. Assembling an effective campaign organization that matches Segarra’s 2011 operation, which made short work of rival Shawn Wooden, may prove a challenge for the mayor in what is expected to be a crowded contest.

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A Chicago Tribune study of the city’s scandal-plagued red light camera program finds the expensive scam hurts traffic safety and causes an increase in rear end collisions, Ars Technica reports.

The article notes, “as recently as November, red light camera company Redflex called North America a “low/no-growth market” due to revenue volatility and federal investigations.”

The program has always been about punishing city drivers and filling government coffers. It never had any relationship to safety.

If you listened to or just heard others talking about the recently concluded first season of the Serial podcast, you’ll want to tune into Colin McEnroe’s WNPR show at 1 p.m. We’ll be talking about the phenomenon of the series that has enthralled millions of listeners as reporter Sarah Koenig investigated the 1999 murder of Baltimore high school student Hav Min Lee and conviction of her fellow student and ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed.

Colin expects Rabia Chaudry, the person who persuaded Koenig to take on the case, to join us by phone for part of the program.

Malloy legal counsel Luke Bronin will join the Hartford office of law firm Hinckley Allen in January as a resident partner. Bronin, a Hartford resident, is expected to make a bid for the Democratic nomination for mayor in next year’s contest.

Establishment-loving Connecticut Business and Industry Association (CBIA), an insurance agency tarted up as a business advocacy group, has a new hire. Former state legislator Brian Flaherty, a Watertown Republican, has been hired for a top job that includes government relations.

CBIA has been a flaccid presence in Connecticut’s long economic struggle with twilight. Some argue it has been worse, an abettor of policies harmful to a dynamic state economy.

Flaherty will be its Senior Vice President for Public Affairs. The current holder of the position has been making more than $400,000 a year, according to documents filed with the IRS.

Governor Dannel P. Malloy ends his first term and begins his second with a hospital crisis across from Waterbury to Rockville. Tenet Healthcare Corp. dropped its complicated bid to buy five hospitals. Tenet was in advanced negotiations to purchase Waterbury Hospital, St. Mary’s Hospital, Bristol Hospital, Manchester Memorial Hospital and Rockville Hospital.

Negotiations collapsed Thursday. The way forward in a changing healthcare industry is not clear. Observers expect that absent a dramatic restructuring of the five hospitals, as many as three will not be able to continue as constituted.

Conditions put on the Waterbury and St. Mary’s deal by state healthcare regulators are said to have been too onerous for Tenet, the final frustration in two years of them.