A chance encounter with a Courant reporter Thursday afternoon provided a sign of how Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz’s mind is occupied with her ongoing lawsuit to be declared eligible to run for attorney general.
It happens that Bysiewicz encountered Courant Capitol bureau chief Chris Keating in the Legislative Office Building in Hartford on the same day that videos were released of her testimony in a recent deposition — which was part of her ongoing fight to convince a judge that her 11 years in office count as the the practice of law.
A state statute says you need to have 10 years’ “active practice” in the legal profession in Connecticut to run for state attorney general – and the Republican Party’s lawyer spent hours in the deposition trying to show that Bysiewicz doesn’t. A number of observers have noted that she doesn’t seem too happy about the whole thing.
So, anyway, Keating was walking down a flight of stairs in the LOB while Bysiewicz walked up from the bottom alone, talking on a cell phone. As they passed halfway up the stairs, he greeted her but she didn’t respond as the phone stayed glued to her ear.
Once she reached the top, she turned and called down to him: “Pardon me. I’m actively practicing law.”