Former CT Gov. Malloy Taking Heat Down East

Former Democratic Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy may be working in Maine these days, but the scrutiny that comes with public leadership positions hasn't left his side, even though he has left the Land of Steady Habits.

Malloy currently works as the chancellor of the University of Maine system, overseeing the operations of multiple universities within the state school's umbrella.

Tuesday into Wednesday, students at the University of Maine at Farmington conducted a sit-in at a campus building to protest the cutting of nine faculty positions at the school, with Malloy being blamed for the move and the students calling for his ouster, according to the Lewiston Sun Journal out of Leweiston, Maine.

According to the Sun Journal, Malloy said the cuts were budgetary in nature and done in accordance with enrollment at the campus.

The Maine newspaper is also reporting Malloy is taking heat for his role in the hiring of a University of Maine at Augusta president despite multiple votes of no confidence issued to him at his prior post at the State University of New York at Delhi.

Malloy, who once worked as a prosecuting attorney, was the mayor of Stamford from 1995 to 2009 and, from 2011 to 2019, he was the governor of Connecticut.

For Dannell P. Malloy's biography at the University of Maine, visit this link.
For the Lewiston Sun Journal story on the University of Maine controversies, visit this link.