Incumbents are damned if they do and damned if they don’t (send mailers, that is)

An editorial in the Hartford Courant today complained that incumbent legislators are “wasting” over a million dollars in taxpayer funds on newsletter mailings to constituents when what the paper alleges they are actually doing is campaigning. But if we want open government and transparency, we’ve got to pay to hear from the folks who speak for us at the state capitol.