(Opinion) Elected officials are supposed to sometimes make honest mistakes. But what about when they deliberately make sneaky rules to preserve their power against the public interest? We saw examples of both situations this week. In one case, the Elicker administration fixed a mistake it made when it hired the wrong outside law firm to represent the city in the first of a wave of lawsuits filed by Black men sent to prison for decades based on fabricated evidence. After losing a $38 million verdict in part because of unconscionable and idiotic lawyering, the city has ended the contract with the lawyer and hired new counsel. In the second case, revelations about last-minute money flowing into a state representative primary showed how elected officials designed the rules of a public-financing law not to keep special interests and hidden “dark money” donations from the wealthy out of campaigns — but to make sure only certain people (including incumbents and the well-connected) get to benefit. Those are among the topics explored in the latest opinionated vlog news summary from the New Haven Independent assignment desk — er, compost heap. (Plus, there’s a bonus track video at the end of jazz trumpeter Nick DiMaria’s quartet killing it Thursday night in Zinc’s alleyway back-room lounge.)  As always, the summary reflects just one person’s opinion, not the Independent’s. The post Mistakes Were Made appeared first on New Haven Independent. ...read more read less