Here we are: Another season, another big cost overrun in the tens of millions of dollars for Gov. Ned Lamont’s crazy, mismanaged, criminally scrutinized State Pier project.

Ho hum.

It was certainly no surprise this week when David Kooris, the citizen volunteer who has been running Lamont’s Connecticut Port Authority circus for years now, announced more than $50 million in new overruns for the botched port project.

There have been so many overruns and so many broken Kooris promises that there would be no more money requested ― including one pledged against his children’s lives ― that, as port critic Kevin Blacker said this week, you’d have to be an idiot to believe this is the last one.

A chorus of legislators expressed some shock and outrage at the latest ask, but Lamont will surely successfully escort this increase through the Bond Commission, as he has all the others.

The lawmakers are, at best, yappers, who have done nothing to derail this boondoggle.

I was especially amused by comments from state Sen. Heather Somers of Groton, who focused some of her criticism on a $6.5 million contingency to be included in the new ask for the bond commission.

“That’s $6.5 million we have to go out and borrow and our taxpayers have to pay back,” Somers told The Day.

That’s rich from someone who recently submitted a bill to ask taxpayer’s to borrow $8 million for a still-unexplained exhibit at the Mystic Aquarium, just as the place was put under the management of the inexperienced director of the senator’s political action committee.

Speaking of political cronies in management roles, with big asks for state borrowed money, what is it about David Kooris that has the governor so mesmerized?

Let’s remember it’s a long time since Kooris has had a job with the state, one with the state Department of Economic and Community Development that originally led to his appointment as port authority chairman.

Now he’s just an unpaid volunteer citizen with a powerful determination to bring the State Pier project home for the utilities it is meant to benefit.

By any measure, private or public sector, you would have changed managers of the State Pier project long before now as the cost has more than tripled, and federal criminal investigations have focused on the relentless spending.

Kooris-led decisions, like paying a controversial “success” fee to a company that at one time employed an authority board member, are being scrutinized in the investigations.

What would it take to shake the uber-wealthy governor out of his stupor and consider some leadership changes before many more tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money are spilled on this boondoggle.

In a statement this week on the latest overruns, Lamont pulled out one of his old lies about how the project will create jobs in eastern Connecticut.

It will create fewer jobs than a new Walmart, and unlike a Walmart, won’t pay taxes.

I got a reaction Wednesday to the new overruns from Lamont’s unsuccessful opponent in the recent gubernatorial race, Republican Bob Stefanowski, who noted that the governor’s team earned an empty promise from the utilities to contribute half of the latest overruns, securing at the same time a return of that money in facility rent money that was supposed to go to the state.

“Eversource and Orsted are doing nothing more than giving the state a $23 million loan paid back by sub lease payments that were supposed to come to the state,” Stefanowski said. “Lamont is possibly the worst negotiator I have ever seen.”

Even worse, I suspect Lamont wasn’t even that involved.

For some strange reason, he’s given the keys to the Bond Commission to Citizen Kooris and his unbridled spending on the utilities’ behalf.

This is the opinion of David Collins.

d.collins@theday.com