Malloy's backing of Harp is impure politics  Things didn't go as
expected when Gov. Dannel P. Malloy showed up the other day at
Nica's Gourmet Market, a deli in New Haven's East Rock
neighborhood, to do something governors hardly ever do,
interfere in a local party primary by endorsing state Sen. Toni
Harp over three other Democrats.  Gov. Malloy had just finished
saying New Haven needed a woman mayor, though not saying why,
and calling Sen. Harp, the chairwoman of the state senate's
appropriations committee, "a monument to the people who care
about public service" when an unwelcome guest appeared at the
endorsement party.  New Haven resident Wendy Hamilton walked up
to the governor and asked a rather embarrassing question about
the "monument" he was choosing for mayor: "How can you endorse a
candidate whose family allegedly owes a million dollars in sales
tax?" Ms. Hamilton asked. "I'd be in prison if I owed a million
dollars."  The governor's reply was a classic non sequitur,
which is Latin for, among other