Things are not looking all the great for Governor Rell this month. First she said she was kept completely in the dark by DOT regarding the ballooning of the New Haven Rail Yard estimates from $300M to $1.7 BILLION. Then, a video was released where Gov. Rell was in the presense of a DOT official who mentioned that it had risen to $800M (who claimed she didn’t ‘understand the reference’ (!))

Now The Stamford Advocate has obtained DOT emails even prior to the video date which indicate that not only did Rell know about the rising estimates, but was angered by it:

“…an e-mail dated Sept. 10, 2007 from Lisa Moody, Rell’s chief of staff, to then-DOT Commissioner Ralph Carpenter. Moody wrote that Rell was “horrified by the cost estimates of the rail facility” and wanted a breakdown of the then-$600 million estimate. “She wants to cut back on the project,” Moody wrote. “

Yikes! Sounds like the governor’s office really needs to bone up on their procedures for maintaining plausible deniability.