Treasurer Cahill's Spring Cleaning

Allegations were made regarding the connections between the Treasurer and some lobbyists at the end of last summer.

The State Ethics Commission recently started investigating the allegations and certain folks on the left started jumping for joy (see here and here). They assumed this was the end of a potential challenge to their Governor.

But Cahill was ‘cleared’ yesterday by the Ethics Commission (that’s the Herald headline, the actual wording was “this matter does not warrant further action at this time”).

Regardless, Cahill has a clean bill of health on the matter should it come up later and he did it before the vast majority of voters are paying much attention.

My guess is that this was his intent all along.