Connecticut Politics: Corruption Is Our Currency

 Politics is an art. In Connecticut, politics seems to be a way to enhance one's power and wealth. Increasingly, it is a profession that when one enters it, one never leaves it. It also is a profession where one can gain and develop great wealth over short periods of time while those in oversight either screw-up repeatedly or look the other way, all at your expense. It is a very closed circle where new ideas are shunned in many ways regardless of whether the ideas would be a great improvement for the status quo. Generally in politics, failed social and economic policies are embraced without any regard for the actual costs to the Taxpayers who must fund this horrific form of governance. And in Connecticut, all of that is significantly worse.

In Connecticut, it is evident that corruption runs rampantly and does not seem to end any time soon. It also seems that Republicans involved in corruption seem to get caught at all costs  and Democrats avoid any punishment for their alleged violations, that are brazen in their disregard for the rule of law. But for those on the political side, they really do not care. They see the takings from you accruing to their benefit as allowing them to serve you better. And regardless of your outcry towards this they will do the same thing over and over, provided they get re-elected for the next cycle, which is the sole reason for their "service", you, be damned.

 

The sordid political history of political corruption in Connecticut goes back decades, to John Mandanici in Bridgeport and John Rowland in the state house, and John Rowland after the state house. But sadly, none of these lessons were learned by subsequent participants. Currently, Bridgeport has a convicted felon serving the city again after jail time and supposed repayment of what he stole from the city, Mayor Joe Ganim. Trying to find evidence that Mayor Joe Ganim repaid the city for his pilfering is virtually nonexistent. That is just the way it is. He will obtain a city taxpayer funded pension if and when he ever retires and also had the audacity to run for Governor of Connecticut. Bridgeport also had/has massive voter fraud that I have written about in the past that in the opinion of many will never be resolved. The closest operating assistant to Mayor Joe Ganim is the Nationally Known Wanda the Ballot Stuffer who has done whatever Mayor Joe Ganim has commanded her to do. The Republican Party is virtually unknown in the city. But all of this is a shrug-your-shoulders accepted way of life in the corrupt Connecticut cesspool.

But why stop there? Connecticut Democrat State Senator Doug McCrory still holds his prominent paid State Senate seat as the corruption he is tied to between  the “Blue Hills Civic Association”, other myriad “nonprofit” organizations, and the should-be-abolished Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development reflect the alleged steering of money to his close associates. The “Blue Hills Civic Association” was poorly run with corrective audit findings being basically disregarded. This failed Democrat-led Association failed to report a $300,000 cyber theft, and over $1,700,000 in funds was apparently funneled to so called “consultants” that are associated with the Democrat State Senator. Absent any cry whatsoever in the political universe for just restitution and the impounding of assets, and appreciative and grateful of an FBI investigation and a Federal Grand Jury, Connecticut taxpayers await eagerly some sort of response as to how and when they will be paid back for this rip-off. 

 However, the inarguable Gold Standard in Connecticut Corruption is Democrat Governor Ned Lamont and his intrepid sidekick spouse and de-facto Lieutenant Governor Ann H. Lamont. Team Lamont leads the state in unanswered corruption questions. My colleague Tony De Angelo and I have been asking repeatedly for information on the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development dealings and audits as they relate to his family's hedge fund profits and other concerns/affiliations. Also how much did his family's hedge fund profit from Infosys Limited, Digital Currency Group and its affiliates, "ADVANCECT", Boston Consulting Group, UNITE US (CT), Mt. Sinai Genomics, "Thermo Fisher Scientific", "Sema 4", " Core Informatics", "Ocrulus", "Urjanet", "1life Healthcare", "Galileo Health", "Castlight Health", "Paladina Health", "4-CT", and "VillageMD"“The Horsebarn Hill Investment Fund”, McKinsey, “CT Next”, and the Tidal River Fund, to name a few?  Since we know there are Lamont family investments in the state pension, where might they be resident in the “Baby Bonds” portfolio or the UCONN Foundation? What family transactions take place in the secret Cayman Islands where no one can see them? Where are the Governor's tax returns and why hasn't he made them public in this election year or in any year since he has been in office? Why haven't these grey areas been researched as well as the alleged irregularities of former Republican candidate for Governor Mayor Erin Stewart? Is it because this is all planned Connecticut Democrat Political theater to preempt the above-mentioned questions on the Governor? It is evident what former disgraced Republican Governor John Rowland did years back, although entirely wrong, pales in comparison to what the Lamonts have done for years with no political criticism whatsoever.

 

And hope sprigs eternal! For at least six years, many citizens have hoped that the Connecticut Republican Party would aggressively police and fix any internal failings it may have and champion a full-throttle assault against serial Democrat corruption. But many of these same citizens were shocked and saddened this week when the ostensible champion of the Republican Connecticut Comeback was seen to have a glass jaw and to be totally unready for higher office. Former Republican candidate for Governor Erin Stewart has stepped out of the race for Governor. Many voters are very disappointed in her candidacy and how poorly she handled it. Many voters were amazed at her arrogance, vulgarity, carelessness, flippant attitude, and self-indulgence. Many voters never thought that she had issues with the misuse of city funds and Amazon procurement cards. Questions abound over what happened. Why all of a sudden in an election year, as Stewart was running for Governor, did these alleged problems come about? Wasn't she vetted as a candidate? Why wasn't Connecticut Republican Party Chairman Ben Proto made known of her issues or was he and chose to avoid them at all costs to preserve his legacy? How did her city audits not see any of these problems, but a hired Democrat Mayor's audit uncovered everything? And how was this abusive situation never an issue in any New Britain Mayor's election? What did Democrat Mayor Bobby Sanchez know and why didn't he make this a campaign issue? And how did Erin Stewart not believe these purchases and her partial pension would become campaign issues? It is the same sad, sordid, sick, and abusive situation regardless of political party in Connecticut. In private industry, firings would be automatic and departments would be eliminated. In Connecticut, pensions are preserved and rewarded at all costs to Taxpayers, and abusive politicians are anointed as “victims,” deserving of a reinstatement to office so that they can do it all over again.

  

But now due to the reach of social media, radio, online newspapers, and blogs, truthful information is finally circulating where the humble citizen of Connecticut is realizing that he or she has been screwed and tattooed by the formerly imperious political class. And the game is indeed over. Both parties really need to come clean in this election. Voters are fast realizing that Connecticut's Democrat elected officials have a great deal of baggage and corruption that they are embracing. It is time call all of them out from the Murphy/Blumenthal Comedy Hour, to the ranting and raving incoherent gibberish of a very old Rosa DeLauro, to the Connecticut Republican Party never being serious and focused about getting the delusional Rosa out of office, to the never ending/hidden corruption of the Ned Lamont Administration and the cesspool of supposed Republican Party leadership that could end up costing the party even greater losses in November.  Connecticut has a putrefied government and political party system in which voters can see this rot much more clearly in this election than ever before. 

If there ever could be a vote of no confidence in Connecticut's government, it is happening now and will not stop until this political septic tank in finally pumped out once and for all. Once again, God save the once-Great State Of Connecticut.

Ethics: What Does That Word Mean In Connecticut?

 

Since I have had such a smash hit these past couple of weeks starting my weekly article off with some definitions,  I decided to give this another try.

Today’s subject is “Ethics”

“Ethics” is defined as the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group, an awareness of the moral importance of a specified thing.

“Ethics in Connecticut” is defined as an evaluation of circumstances that is acceptable if it fits 1) the moment, 2) me, 3) a family member, 4) a friend, 5) a crony, 6) some marginalized  group, or 7) abuse of a citizen, (because no one cares about them, anyway).

Welcome to the wonderful world of Ethics in Connecticut.

Believe it or not, Connecticut actually has a state ethics code. I highly recommend all Connecticut State Taxpayers read it and quote from it frequently as I am led to believe that most state officials, both elected and appointed, have no clue as to what rules and laws they need to be following in their positions of power. And nor do they care.

Here are some of the highlights to this massive, not widely read or followed code of law in the state:

Sec. 1-83. Statements of financial interests. Filing requirements. Ethics statements. Confidentiality. Waiver. (a)(1) All state-wide elected officers, members of the General Assembly, department heads and their deputies, members or directors of each quasi-public agency, members of the Investment Advisory Council and such members of the Executive Department and such employees of quasi-public agencies as the Governor shall require, shall file electronically with the Office of State Ethics using the software created by the office, under penalty of false statement, a statement of financial interests for the preceding calendar year on or before the May first next in any year in which they hold such an office or position. If, in any year, May first falls on a weekend or legal holiday, such statement shall be filed not later than the next business day. Any such individual who leaves his or her office or position shall file electronically a statement of financial interests covering that portion of the year during which such individual held his or her office or position. The Office of State Ethics shall notify such individuals of the requirements of this subsection not later than sixty days after their departure from such office or position. Such individuals shall file such statement electronically not later than sixty days after receipt of the notification.  https://portal.ct.gov/ethics/statutes-and-regulations/statutes-and-regulations/codeofethicsstatutes#S1-83.

 

One may wonder when the last time anyone saw King Governor Ned Lamont The Unaccountable's financial disclosures? Certainly, no one has ever seen his income tax summary forms as he has never released them to the general public. (And nor, does he care to).

 

One may also note that the penalty for noncompliance or lying with the above provision is the "wrist-slap" penalty of “false statement” as opposed to the legal standard of “perjury” which carries criminal penalty. If you say such a provision is harsh, it is the same provision of lying under oath you stipulate when you file your yearly income tax return. (Idea: Try scratching out “perjury” on the declaration of your next tax return and replacing it with “false statement,” and when you are arrested, you can try claiming immunity from prosecution by claiming you are a member of the Connecticut State Legislature)

 

Let’s move on.

"No public official or state employee or employee of such public official or state employee shall agree to accept, or be a member or employee of a partnership, association, professional corporation or sole proprietorship which partnership, association, professional corporation or sole proprietorship agrees to accept any employment, fee or other thing of value, or portion thereof, for appearing, agreeing to appear, or taking any other action on behalf of another person before the Department of Banking, the Office of the Claims Commissioner, the Health Systems Planning Unit of the Office of Health Strategy, the Insurance Department, the Department of Consumer Protection, the Department of Motor Vehicles, the State Insurance and Risk Management Board, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, the Connecticut Siting Council or the Connecticut Real Estate Commission; provided this shall not prohibit any such person from making inquiry for information on behalf of another before any of said commissions or commissioners if no fee or reward is given or promised in consequence thereof. For the purpose of this subsection, partnerships, associations, professional corporations or sole proprietorships refer only to such partnerships, associations, professional corporations or sole proprietorships which have been formed to carry on the business or profession directly relating to the employment, appearing, agreeing to appear or taking of action provided for in this subsection."https://portal.ct.gov/ethics/statutes-and-regulations/statutes-and-regulations/codeofethicsstatutes#S1-84. One may wonder why the "Blue Hills Civic Association" was allowed to have Democrat State Senator Douglas McCrory oversee the grants to his "association" and where are the seven figures of combined missing funds discovered in the state's audit findings that McCrory had a place in directing or diverting?  Has there been any cross checking of McCrory's personal financial statements to see either increases in income and or personal wealth? Also why has there never been a media or Republican demand to probe King Ned The Unaccountable  for his self-designed 2019 sham “Ethics Plan”  that my friend and colleague Tony De Angelo has sliced and diced to prove that it was directly constructed to exclude the tax-free and secret Cayman Island partnerships that were instrumental in shielding the self-dealing IPO profit from the Sema4 IPO propped up by state funding?  https://x.com/TonyDeAngelo7/status/1960366270567645674 These are just several thoughts to help resolve this continued fraudulent use of Connecticut Taxpayers monies that we never see repaid.

However, let us return to our terms as defined above, especially “Connecticut Ethics” With that definition in mind, we need to examine and try to understand this code as we see more incredible and piggish acts by the Democrat Party controlled state legislature to help eliminate transparency in state government. In a unanimous vote on proposals from the semi-useless Connecticut Office Of State Ethics, legislators decided to drop a proposed addition to this state ethics code to prohibit nepotism. This nepotism would have applied to all state lawmakers also. As a side note, on April 27th, the State House of Representatives voted to eliminate a nepotism standard that forbids state public officials and state employees from the giving of jobs, promotions and or special advantages to relatives or friends from this same ethics bill. This prohibition would have also applied to all of the members of the state general assembly. Future Connecticut Attorney General US Senator, Democrat State Representative Matt Blumenthal, (Legacy of US Senator Dick Blumenthal) is the House co-chair of the Government Administration and Elections Committee and he bold-facedly stated: “This is the first time that these provisions have been put forward to the legislature," he said. "We had a public hearing on them, but I think there are still concerns about the scope and nuances of some of their applications, and I anticipate we will address them again in the future and potentially pass versions of them in the future, but they may require additional work” CT legislators remove nepotism ban that would have applied to them

Noted also in the same bill is a provision that allows state legislators two free sporting tickets per year. Both of these provisions passed unanimously and will probably become law.

 

But what on earth is going on here? Many are confused as the Democrat controlled state legislature has no issues whatsoever in ramming down bills and laws upon Connecticut Taxpayers without public hearings and listening to the concerns of the individuals who will be impacted the most by their brazen, careless and politically connected legislation that pass at any time day or night, regardless of public opinion.  You should be astounded to realize especially after pouring through this state ethics code that there is no rule against the use of nepotism by the state legislators. So, if it is not illegal, to the victors go the spoils. Bring on the nepotism 24 hours a day, seven days a week and 365 days in the year! Blumenthal is well aware of that and must protect the political machine no matter what the costs are. Ethics be damned.

 

But more astounding is that no elected official or Republican political candidate to date has ever demanded an inquiry into the self-dealing litany of the Lamonts over eight years in a myriad of dealings nor have they been called to account on any of them. Again, I will remind our readers of my opinion that there will never be an investigation into Governor Lamont's financial streams and a full disclosure of his income tax statements even though he is in clear violation of the above state ethics code. To this, we still have no answers to dealings with “Thermo Fisher Scientific", "Sema 4", " Core Infomatics", “Centrellis”. "Ocrulus", "Urjanet", "1life Healthcare", "Galileo Health", "Castlight Health", "Paladina Health", and "VillageMD",  the Lamont-related Cayman Island partnerships, large Cayman Islands deals such as the "Horsebarn Hill Investment Fund" hiding in the UCONN Foundation,  and other deals working through “quasi-public” organizations such as Lamont-connected (and covert) “Connecticut Innovations”.  Again, the lack of answers seems to be in violation of the above state ethics code. I challenge any reasonable person to find where in this code Lamont is exempt from it.

Again, there are two definitions of “ethics” in Connecticut. I submit unto you that the “Connecticut” definition of ethics should finally apply to its citizens. Why can’t Connecticut citizens keep secrets from government using private e-mail servers as the Lamonts’ do? Why can't Connecticut citizens rob tax-exempt organizations for their friends and cronies? Why can’t Connecticut Taxpayers disregard paying their state taxes as it seems to be supporting a very unethical and illegal non representative and non-transparent government? After all, why can’t citizens get away with what their government does? It is a government completely avoiding its own state constitution and state law especially with the recent anti-ICE Senate Bill 397 which was signed into law. It is a state government that has a complete disregard for the rule of law and its own legal taxpaying citizens who remain in this hellhole once known as "The Constitution State". And it is a government that will accept a couple of free sporting tickets at your expense because they are them and you are you, and you, be damned.

 

God Help Us All in protecting us from the government of the State of Connecticut.

 

Is An “Election” A Mythological Term In Connecticut?

 Since we had such a fun time in last week’s Chris Murphy article using definitions of terms, I decided to start in like manner this week.

1)  ELECTION: An election is a formal group decision-making process whereby a population or group freely votes to choose an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office or other position of responsibility.

 

2)  CANDIDATE: A candidate is a person who petitions to run for public office.

 

3)  POLITICAL PARTY: A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in elections and participate in governance. It is common for the members of a party to coalesce around similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or policy goals.

 

4)  REPRESENTATIVE: A representative is a person chosen to speak or act on behalf of others, especially in government.

 

5)  DISENFRANCHISEMENT: Disenfranchisement means taking away someone’s right to vote or making it very hard for them to vote. This can happen in many ways including voter discouragement, where people are not directly blocked from voting but are pushed not to vote by removing their input and opinion from the process.

 

6)  43% OF CONNECTICUT VOTERS THAT VOTED FOR TRUMP IN 2024:  Cannot relate to any number above, (but for 5)

In review of just several of the horrors of this past month concerning elections and the conduct of those in political high places this week, I am forced to wonder: Does voting and elections matter anymore in Connecticut? Many wonder if their votes even count any more in Connecticut in any type of election given the mass amount of deception, fraud and lies that Connecticut Taxpayers are force fed daily. This upcoming state election is yet another case in point as over 43% of the voting public wonder if anyone will ever represent them and not even caring what their feelings and sentiments may be. Unbelievably, not everyone in Connecticut agrees with Omnipotent One-Party Socialist Democrat Party diatribes and jeremiads that are blabbered on a daily basis over the should-be starved out state run and paid for media channels. Many people turn off such drivel and are searching for vision, boldness, and aggressiveness heretofore unseen in the land of the established Connecticut political system.

And in the words of the late ABC Sportscaster Howard Cosell, this, is a sick scene, that speaks for itself.

We were once told that Connecticut Governor King Ned Lamont The Unaccountable was both beloved and un-defeatable. However, reality has this nasty habit of being (well), real, and this reality is finally catching up to The Unaccountable. We now see storm clouds brewing over what was once the Lamont Sea of tranquility as The Unaccountable is doing everything he can to appease the radical left that the Connecticut Democrat Party has transformed into in addition to protecting his wife's cash flow into their Oak HC/FT hedge fund place in state-connected business and pension assets. Crossing over, the Republican Party front runner against Lamont, Mayor Erin Stewart is imploding with new revelations of her Administration and questionable dealing with both back dated taxes and her boorish ad entitled request for a partial pension for 14 years of service to the city of New Britain (https://ctmirror.org/2026/04/30/ct-erin-stewart-mayor-pension-benefit/). Many workers in Connecticut in that 43% block have worked for many years with NO PENSIONS after any number of years and have to deal with it.  Many workers in Connecticut in that 43% block continue to question why Connecticut state workers and elected officials are so deserving of massive pensions for their work? Meanwhile, many workers in Connecticut in that 43% bloc are fast concluding that elected officials view them only as a means to fatten their wallets and to bankroll their farcical conduct while masquerading in something called “representative government”.

But perhaps there is hope after all! Providing a breath of fresh air to the Republican race is former New York Lieutenant Governor Betsy McCaughey and her no-nonsense approach to resolving Connecticut's never-ending problems. In true Connecticut politics fashion, McCaughey, a conservative, is being unapologetically shut out by the party's hierarchy https://x.com/ct_unite/status/2049316754514411701?s=20. Moreover, the Connecticut GOP is so inexplicably impotent that it refuses to capitalize on the national dismembering of Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro by EPA Secretary Lee Zeldin this past week https://x.com/epaleezeldin/status/2048895480151593427?s=20. But due to this ostensible lack of enthusiasm for the party, the outlying problem in the upcoming election is once again a lack of Republican candidates to run against the entrenched Democrat candidates in the State House and State Senate. Several non-Republican Party individuals have geared up to get candidates to run in these open seats. To many this should have been the first priority of the party right after their crushing state losses in 2024. The weakness and cowardice resonates as the call for a full investigation into Ned Lamont's financial streams and for a full disclosure of his income tax statements has never been made by Connecticut Republicans. We still have no answers to dealings with  "Thermo Fisher Scientific", "Sema 4", " Core Infomatics", “Centrellis”. "Ocrulus", "Urjanet", "1life Healthcare", "Galileo Health", "Castlight Health", "Paladina Health", and "VillageMD",  the Lamont-related Cayman Island partnerships, large Cayman Islands deals such as the "Horsebarn Hill Investment Fund" hiding in the UCONN Foundation,  and other deals working through “quasi-public” organizations such as Lamont-connected (and covert) “Connecticut Innovations”. No Republican candidate for his office ever raises these issues, which have all been documented since Tony De Angelo broke the stories of Sema4 and Digital Currency Group several years back. Why is this continuing to be hidden? And why are the Republicans so silent about it? Can these inroads be more entrenched than what we may have imagined previously?

Through  it all, Connecticut's problems have not cleared up in any way, shape, or form. Connecticut still has massive short- and long-term debt between 100 and 150 Billion dollars, an illegal immigrant problem, a massive crime problem, a huge corruption problem, a horrific illegal drug problem, an infrastructure problem, a gross incompetency problem in the Great Connecticut Administrative State,  and a critical crisis in the ethics, honesty, information sharing, and transparency of its state government, all of which are funded by Connecticut taxpayers.  Connecticut has one of the highest tax rates in the country, one of the highest electric rates in the country and one of the most toxic business climates in the country. These are all Republican campaign platforms that this state party should be about on a minute-by-minute basis.

Connecticut therefore needs a leader in the mold of a President Trump. Someone who is willing to make real decisions to improve the state in a variety of ways; economically, ethically, and socially. A leader who will reverse the down arrow. A leader who must confront the evil empire that the Connecticut's political system on both sides of the aisle has developed into. The Connecticut Republican Party and the remaining RINO's therein also need to be held accountable. Why do we not see filibusters and walking out on votes of 1000 page bills delivered 30 minutes prior to vote? This would be a start. Good old 1960’s tactics like sit-ins and pickets work wonders. How about bringing lawsuits against these putrid bills? This should be the norm. Tying up illegal and unconstitutional laws in courts for years to come is also essential. Given the horrific state of Connecticut's corrupted state government, this election should be an overwhelming victory for the Connecticut Republican Party and not the confusing morass we are witnessing.

Can anyone step up to this challenge and actually take back Connecticut to the once great state that it was? Or is it doomed to be a cesspool of socialist bombast and grandiloquence, turning the state into a permanent sewer of economic and social failure? Meanwhile, 43% of the state is crying for their voice. I respectfully ask the Republican Party not to blow this opportunity to connect with these folks, just like they have blown every opportunity hand-delivered to them previously. The future of Connecticut and all citizens born and unborn, depends on it.

Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy, And His Ascension To The Divine Right Of A King

 Oath: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God." (https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/senate-and-constitution/oath-of-office.htm).

This is the Oath of Office that Socialist/Democrat Connecticut United States Senator Chris Murphy took upon ascending to the highest deliberative body in the United States of America, the U.S. Senate.

Chris Murphy:  Responds “awesome” to an April 20 Ali Vaez tweet that at least 26 Iranian shadow fleet vessels bypass US blockade, (later claiming this was sarcasm). https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/2046345472915206646

Sedition: An act undermining the country. Cambridge Dictionary defines sedition as “Language or behavior that is intended to persuade other people to oppose their government or leaders, sometimes in a violent way.”

Treason: Treason against the United States, shall consist in ..adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort (U.S. Constitution).

Connecticut Republican Party Press Release: “Chris Murphy is not a serious leader. He is a partisan activist masquerading as a statesman, and his words and actions are an embarrassment to our state.

Frankly, Chris Murphy is an embarrassment to Connecticut.

Sherlock Holmes' Brother, (upon reading the CT GOP statement above on Chris Murphy), "no stuff, Sherlock. Every person in the state already knows that he is unhinged".

Entire Civilized World (but for Democrats, and the Connecticut Republican Party) call for the (censure, removal, arrest, trial) of Chris Murphy for reasons of (sedition, treason, giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and for his sustained and persistent anti-American conduct over a protracted period).

Welcome to the insane, irrational, and corrupted world of Connecticut politics, where past and current events include two imprisoned Chief Executives (one still serving in office), a senior Senator who claimed combat service in Vietnam (he did not) and also claimed to not be participating in a Communist rally (he did), a prominent gubernatorial candidate answering questions about bribery in her role as Mayor as her city’s tax office was out of control under her watch, and a sitting governor with a history of questionable dealings conducting state business with his wife using a family office server LEE ELCI SHOW TONY DE ANGELO 4 21 2026. Any right-thinking normal individual believes that each of these situations deserves accountability and (where necessary), punishment.

But somehow, when it comes to Chris Murphy, the Connecticut political establishment, nor even the state opposition party never acts upon what about every right-thinking person in the world thinks is just and apropos concerning Chris Murphy.He remains untouchable. He remains unaccountable. 

You see, Chris Murphy has ascended to the Divine Right of Kings. He truly is the real King of Connecticut. 

All Hail King Murphy the Untouchable! A King above all Kings, Murphy has appointed himself King of all. Murphy, as self-proclaimed expert on all world affairs has apparently sided with the brutal Iranian regime in their conflict with the free world. His rant republished above continues an unending litany of hatred of all things American and anything to do with either President Trump or the Republicans. By his conduct, Murphy is a threat to our country for his conduct, his vile remarks and by violating his Oath of Office. However comforted by his political divine rights, Murphy is quite satisfied in his continual disconnection with the real world, and more importantly it is no longer representing Connecticut. He desperately wants political acceptance and recognition by the "new" Socialist Democrat Party. He apparently wants to be a political icon of some sort. He is ending up to be a shameful fool spewing his constant incoherent gibberish at the public.

And to reiterate: the Entire Civilized World (excluding Democrats and the Connecticut Republican Party)  cry for the (censure, removal, arrest, trial) of Chris Murphy for reasons of (sedition, treason, giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and for sustained and persistent anti-American conduct over a protracted period of time).

To refresh our readers minds here are just a few of his tirades:

"It would be devastating for America if Donald Trump won, and it would be devastating for the anti-gun-violence movement. But we would be on a long list of progressive causes that would be shattered by a Trump win."  (https://www.azquotes.com/author/27347-Chris_Murphy) 

"One of the myths about the Internet of Things is that companies have all the data they need, but their real challenge is making sense of it. In reality, the cost of collecting some kinds of data remains too high, the quality of the data isn't always good enough, and it remains difficult to integrate multiple data sources." (https://www.azquotes.com/author/27347-Chris_Murphy) I wonder if Murphy has ever taken an Economics course before?

2/9/25:"I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly since Watergate," Murphy said. "The president is attempting to seize control of power, and for corrupt purposes." Pointing to the Trump administration's efforts to overhaul the federal government, including by freezing foreign aid programs under the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Murphy said the country is in the midst of a "red-alert moment" and argued that Trump is ushering in "the billionaire takeover of government." (https://abcnews.com/Politics/democratic-sen-chris-murphy-warns-assault-constitution/story?id=118605827)

9/29/25 “We may not have another election, at least a free and fair election, if we don’t stop this slide away from free speech and democracy quickly. And what we know from history is that the only way to stop a, you know, would-be tyrant from cratering, from destroying a democracy is mass mobilization,” Murphy said. “There’s something magic that happens when millions of people are mobilized all around the country,” he continued. “It just throws sand in the gears of an effort to try to convert a democracy to something very different.”(https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/sen-chris-murphy-sends-funds-anti-trump-organizing-groups-latest-milli-rcna233906)

Please note that this is a short list, and all these gems took place before the latest episode of purported “sarcasm” (in King Murphy’s words). But even with a sarcastic tone why would Murphy show any support for Iran? What has Iran done to the United States over the years to warrant their support? Hasn't Iran been a ruthless regime that murders its own people especially those who support freedom? Doesn’t Iran abuse women and children? Why do Socialist Democrats love dictators so much? Why do they support the most ruthless murderers who call themselves leaders in these socialist and communist countries? How does Murphy's support benefit Connecticut Taxpayers who are forced to help for Murphy's salary and benefits as he prattles, twitches and natters on effectively saying nothing and doing even less?

Connecticut could have had Republican Linda McMahon for their Senator if she had won back in 2012. McMahon, being a conservative female Republican with self made wealth, was condemned and crucified by the media. But much of what McMahon and Connecticut Voters wanted to know about Murphy's dealings with Webster Bank and his financial issues were covered over without any harm to him (https://www.politico.com/story/2012/09/mcmahon-files-ethics-complaint-vs-foe-080970). But remember Democrats do not need to answer to anyone or any law. And when one ascends to Kingly status, accountability matters even less.

Chris Murphy is an angry, bloviating, egotistical and pathetic man. His conduct places decent taxpaying citizens and the United States Armed Forces at perpetual risk. He is a dangerous man. He is conceptually unable to discuss issues. He is making many hard working and pro American people sick and tired of hearing his complaints. His daily incoherent gibberish is a tiring bore. Since the political establishment in Connecticut will not touch him, The United States Senate should step in and do the right thing by censuring or removing him. He is truly unfit to serve as a United States Senator nor to uphold the United States Constitution. Connecticut and the country have had enough of his rhetoric and lies.

 

Connecticut: Are You Better Off Than An Illegal Alien?

 The forgotten men, women and families in the once great state of Connecticut really do not ask for much. They ask for clean and safe streets. Lower taxes. Reliable public education. Recreation. Economic opportunity. The chance to build equity and value. However, the twisted and putrid Democrat machine in Hartford continues to manufacture a directed effort to assail anything close to that for these innocent citizens. Week in and week out things continue to get worse in Connecticut. Every time you think things are getting better, the Connecticut Democrat Party dumps another piece of bad and unlawful legislation out to oppress the populace at that last minute. Below, we will now examine the latest piece of crap that is being force fed to Connecticut Taxpayers making their lives yet even more dangerous and defenseless.

This latest legislative brutality is known as Senate Bill 397 (An Act Concerning Democracy and Government Accountability. (“Bill”) Passed by the Connecticut Senate in April 2026. This Bill is stated to strengthen oversight of United States Immigration and  Customs Enforcement ("ICE"), permit lawsuits against federal officers for civil rights violations, and ban law enforcement masks. It creates "protected areas,” (e.g., schools, hospitals, and churches), where civil arrests are restricted, and limits data retention from automated license plate readers.

Upon reading the Bill it is quite clear that the fever dream of the deluded Connecticut State Senate is to see state officers in violent skirmishes with the officers of ICE. It is ostensible that if the state officers prevail (an extremely unlikely scenario especially given the force permitted in defense of the U.S. Constitution and the Supremacy Clause), this same state Senate could then set up a twisted and delusional banana state under its own control showing no mercy to its legitimate citizens.

But this sane or disaffected Connecticut citizen must come to grips with why the Connecticut State Senate wishes to destroy everything for which they have worked. This same citizen wonders why government would not work to protect what they have worked so hard for, especially as a good part of their tax dollars have been expended for such protection.

Perhaps at this juncture it would be helpful to review what ICE does, particularly with respect to Enforcement and Removal Operations ("ERO"). The ERO directorate upholds U.S. immigration law at, within, and beyond our borders. ERO's work is critical to the enforcement of immigration law against those who present a danger to our national security, are a threat to public safety, or who otherwise undermine the integrity of our immigration system.

ERO operations target public safety threats, such as convicted criminal undocumented aliens and gang members, as well as individuals who have otherwise violated our nation's immigration laws, including those who illegally re-entered the country after being removed and immigration fugitives ordered removed by federal immigration judges. ERO deportation officers assigned to INTERPOL also assist in targeting and apprehending foreign fugitives or Fugitive Arrest and Removal (FAR) cases who are wanted for crimes committed abroad and who are now at-large in the U.S.

ERO manages all aspects of the immigration enforcement process, including identification and arrest, domestic transportation, detention, bond management, and supervised release, including alternatives to detention. In addition, ERO removes undocumented aliens ordered removed from the U.S. to more than 150 countries around the world. (https://www.ice.gov/about-ice)

When reading the above, it is quite clear that ICE does keep our country safe from the invasion of ten million illegal and undocumented people that entered our country during the Biden Administration as they try to apprehend the many criminals that were let in at that time. This also includes 1.7 million migrants detected by technology but not apprehended that have evaded Border Patrol. But the Connecticut Democrat Party, with zero regard for legitimate Connecticut taxpayers, wants open borders and to punish Connecticut taxpayers even more, by having them pay for these illegals. It is estimated that the state pays $1.3 billion dollars or more for them. But you will not get a real answer from your nontransparent Democrat state government as to the costs. Moreover, you will get the Governor and the Attorney General vehemently insisting that Connecticut is not a sanctuary state, during a time when every large city in Connecticut has deemed itself to be a “welcoming sanctuary city,” regardless of legal citizenship. This convoluted strategy is right out of Saul Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals". And this is the Connecticut way of governance.

I believe it is also valuable to try to refresh the Connecticut Democrat Party's memory as to why ICE is trying to enforce Federal Laws, and respectfully provide this piece from 2024: "The same disastrous catch-and-release policies that let the killers of Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, and Jocelyn Nungaray loose into the country are also still in use by this administration (Biden)––regardless of the consequences. In fact, this fiscal year alone, more than 1.2 million inadmissible aliens have received a “Notice to Appear” from CBP and have been released into our communities with inadequate vetting and screening. The list of preventable crimes committed by those here illegally unfortunately continued to grow last month. On July 28, Jorge Chacon-Gutierrez shot a San Antonio police officer who was responding to a domestic violence call. Chacon-Gutierrez reportedly entered the U.S. illegally through Eagle Pass, Texas, in November of 2023 and was released with an April 2026 court date. According to a DHS memo revealed on July 30, more than 1,000 known members of the Venezuelan gang Tren De Aragua (TdA) are in the U.S. and have been encouraged to attack state and local law enforcement in our communities". (https://homeland.house.gov/2024/08/21/startling-stats-factsheet-nationwide-border-encounters-surpass-10-million-under-biden-harris-administration-as-americans-suffer/)

But who gives a tinker’s dam about obedience to Federal law in Connecticut? Connecticut Democrats in the Senate pushed through Senate Bill 397 as discussed above, a Bill that Connecticut Republicans were not allowed to read . What residents are they talking about protecting? Illegal ones? Again let us refresh the Connecticut Democrat Party memories; What about “Operation Broken Trust” in August 2025 when ICE arrested sixty-five people in several Connecticut cities including Stamford, Norwalk, and Danbury, targeting individuals with connections to organized crime and serious offenses? These arrested individuals were linked to charges including sexual assault, domestic violence, child sex abuse, drug dealing, and weapons violations and some of these criminals had previously been convicted of serious offenses and were in the community prior to the ICE sweep.  Or what about illegal immigrant Edgar Gomez who beat to death a two-year-old child in Stamford? These people will be protected under Bill SB 397. Why? Can the Connecticut Democrat Party confirm that all illegal immigrants are out of the state and Taxpayers are no longer spending $1.3 billion dollars to support them? Why would they want these criminals living in the state?

The bill, S.B. 397, allows residents to sue federal law enforcement in state courts. It also designates churches, schools, and hospitals as protected areas. Under the bill, federal law enforcement would need a judicial warrant to enter. ICE agents and all federal law enforcement at all levels would be required to show their badges and are banned from wearing masks. Republicans blasted the bill on Tuesday, saying the state does not have the ability to tell ICE agents how to do their jobs. "Why are we doing this other than passing a bill that sounds good politically for them, and frankly is nothing more than a guise – an anti-cop bill," said State Sen. Stephen Harding (R-Minority Leader). Sen. Saud Anwar (D-South Windsor) said that ICE's operations have "instilled a fear into communities across our state that is crippling and cruel." We’re taking action to make sure federal law enforcement has to follow the same rules that state and local police do. We’re making sure our local residents who are mistreated have recourse against those mistreating them. Against a backdrop of lawless violence and widespread discrimination, this bill tells Connecticut residents their safety is paramount," Anwar said in a statement following the bill's passing. ( https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/ct-senate-pass-bill-aimed-at-protecting-residents-from-ice-sends-it-to-house/3725724/)

Democrat State Senator Anwar who has been known for his proclivity for illegal and audacious conduct, appears delusional with his incoherent statements. His statement tells legal Connecticut citizens and Taxpayers to screw off and drop dead if you want to be protected from illegal and unlawful immigrants that roam Connecticut. He wants Connecticut to flourish in an unlawful, illegal manner with criminals roaming the streets, while featuring a flourishing illegal state-supported drug trade, human trafficking and much more. You see, the stream of illegal immigrants into the state to Democrats provides cheap labor and new voters to keep them in power forever. It is a Socialists dream.

Thus, we see another bad bill that hurts Connecticut engineered by a dangerous and totally out of touch Connecticut Democrat Party passing again with tepid Republican pushback. I, and many others, cannot understand how a bill like this could be legal and pass under Federal laws. But since your Connecticut government has no interest in protecting you, I end this article with some simple advice as found on the ICE website. Connecticut Taxpayers and Legal Connecticut residents can call 1-866-DHS-2-ICE to report suspicious activity. Further, I urge you to report this bill SB 397 and the people responsible for it. The Bill is suspicious activity and is neither legal nor constitutional.

Suspicious activity and illegality. This is the Gold Standard of governance for the twisted and putrid Connecticut Party in 2026, and it is safe to say that due to the failure of Democracy in 2026, only you and I can push for any change in this regard.

Representation of Connecticut in 2026- The Entire Place has Gone Bananas

 What is a representative democracy type of government? It is defined as; a government in which the power is exercised by the people through their elected representatives : a form of government in which the people elect representatives to make decisions, policies, laws, etc.

Many Connecticut Taxpayers and legal voters are asking this election year; who does Connecticut State Government represent? Is it those individuals who make all the decisions for everyone in the state whether it is a good or bad decision? Is it those legislators who somehow pass laws for everyone in the state whether a majority of voters are against the bill? Has Connecticut's state government become so nontransparent that both taxpayers and voters have no say in the government that they pay for? Are Connecticut state elections being carried out in a legal manner with no voter fraud taking place?  How does the legal voter have their power exercised by their elected representatives when those same representatives are completely out-of-touch with what is going on their districts?

Moreover, are there any people out there, anywhere in the universe of all people either elected or running that place your and my best interests at heart?

A very unpopular, but incredibly truthful premise is that Connecticut has suffered a great degradation ever since the onset of the Covid period in 2019. In addition to lockdowns and the destruction of what was left of the Connecticut economy, we saw unbridled fraud, election fraud, concealment, self-dealing, covert government operations and massive and redundant governmental hiring, all of which continue without aggressive political pushback, to this day. We also saw our governor, along with his spouse, attempt to “put one over” on the populace with several family equity investments  placed “in service” to the state (most notably Sema4 for Covid-19 testing), and neither situation was disclosed at the outset. We see a current situation of a similar Lamont-connected investment (Yuma Asset Management) being shrouded in the boiler-room operation of “Connecticut Innovations” (“CI”), and CI refuses to disclose any information related to it. We see a draconian and hostile vaccine mandate coming out of Hartford through a Department of Public Health led by individuals of highly suspect integrity, and no one operating in the Great Connecticut Administrative State or the Democrat Party gives one care to the will of the people rejecting this draconian and hostile mandate. And, in an election season where it would be expected that the state Republican Party and candidates would be swarming over these issues, there is an almost tacit acceptance of them with at least two of the three major gubernatorial candidates affirming the status-quo, with one stating that higher compensation be given to state employees.

But why is this so? Should not government and elected officials be representing people, and not the other way around? There are an enormous number of examples currently in Connecticut that show the complete disconnect that elected state officials, state representatives, state senators, and candidates have with those constituents they supposedly represent. Further, the citizen that speaks out against these abuses is usually ostracized by the system, the parties, or the “legitimate media” by not aligning with the problem as opposed to the solution.

The problem is much deeper than anyone in politics wishes for you to believe. For example, many people are entirely unaware as to the powerful provisions of the OBBBA of 2025 that can cause Connecticut’s economy to jumpstart in addition to other systems that could eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse, which is a way of life in Connecticut. These same people are constantly told by government on both sides of the aisle that there is no solution other than the rotten procedures of state government, which in fact is the problem and the cancer leading the state to ruin ever since the enactment of the income tax in 1991. Connecticut has serious issues with regards to all of these issues which I have written about for several decades.  In my opinion, my friend and colleague Tony De Angelo did a terrific job of breaking this situation down for us on his April 9, 2026, THIRTY WITH TONY. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V9ohfs0C00&t=1080s

But regardless of what I, or Tony, or others of sincere and similar mindset may write or broadcast, the unification (if not Uni-party) of the Connecticut establishment continually persist in the bad practices of the past that somehow benefit itself at the exclusion of all others not politically connected.

It is inarguable that Connecticut's representative democracy resembles more of a third world nation's banana republic and/or a socialistic based dictatorship rather than a representative democracy for the good of the people. Connecticut borders on a lunatic fringe of a deep hatred of all things President Trump right across political parties while Democrats chronically blame the Republican Party for all the state ills that the Democrat Party and its enablers have nurtured since 1990. Lies are truth and truth are lies in Connecticut. It really is the modern-day version of the Book of Timothy in the Bible, where the truth is rejected for fables. But even the worst fable on many a day is better than the best day in Connecticut government.

For example: The establishment in Connecticut imperiously denies there is such a thing as widespread voter fraud. To that, we must look at the history of Democrat Party voter fraud in Bridgeport. The same Bridgeport that continues to reelect convicted felon Democrat Joe Ganim as their Mayor. To jog voters memories Ganim quit the mayor’s office in 2003 when he was found stealing from the city. he was Mayor from 1991 to 2003, then made a comeback in 2015 after a seven-year stint in prison and continues to rule Bridgeport with an iron hand helping lead it to economic ruin in 2026. For many years going back to the Mandanici era of copying names off of tombstones there have voter fraud abuses in Bridgeport with little resolution, including the extension of voting hours in state elections. And one has to ask how many higher office elections of Democrats were decided by mysterious ballots magically appearing as the polls closed. And one has to ask how many of these magic elections were presided over and won in the ninth inning by longtime operative Wanda Geter-Pataky and her minions? And one has to ask why said Wanda Geter-Pataky continually remains out of jail, and who would be implicated if she confessed?  The “legitimate media” never asks those questions, but you and I ask them constantly. Regardless, no answers are forthcoming.

Another unanswered question is why Connecticut will not release its voters' records to the federal government? What are they hiding? Why did former Secretary of State Denise Merrill mysteriously retire from a job that she loved in favor of the non-communicative and non-responsive Stephanie Thomas? Why is there so many foul things happening in one place with no resolutions forthcoming?

But again, what does Connecticut State Government represent? Clearly, not you. Looking at the Governor and his dealings, he represents all that is bad in our political system. One can safely state this as the corruption does get answered about  "Thermo Fisher Scientific", "Sema 4", " Core Infomatics", “Centrellis”. "Ocrulus", "Urjanet", "1life Healthcare", "Galileo Health", "Castlight Health", "Paladina Health", and "VillageMD",  the Lamont-related Cayman Island partnerships, large Cayman Islands deals such as the "Horsebarn Hill Investment Fund" hiding in the UCONN Foundation,  and other deals working through “quasi-public” organizations such as Lamont-connected (and covert) “Connecticut Innovations”. But this has been asked for several years and the silence is deafening from the non-transparent Lamont administration of profits. And no Republican candidate for his office ever raises these issues, which have all been documented since Tony De Angelo broke the stories of Sema4 and Digital Currency Group several years back, (inter-alia)  What is being hidden, and why? Who, is protecting whom?

 But again, who or what does Connecticut State Government represent? Corruption is still being investigated and no results are forthcoming with “Human Resources Agency of New Britain" where Democrat State Senator Rick Lopes of the 6th District received a great deal of Taxpayers monies for supposed services rendered. Or how about Democrat State Senator Doug McCrory and the misuse of $750,000 in funds for the now bankrupt "Blue Hills Civic Association" on top of untold millions connected to him that have disappeared before? Or, is there any political curiosity about the free cash and 2% “sweetheart” loans given away by both the failed and should-be-abolished Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development and the Connecticut Community Fund 2030? How about the billions given to the never-ending array of Connecticut Taxpayer funded "nonprofits" that unfortunately show little results in making Connecticut a better place to live by eliminating the massive amount of illegal drug use/trafficking, and or the many who are starving in the state and homeless? Or is that an affordability question to make legal drugs more affordable so that Connecticut can get more tax revenue and the state can seize land for their cronies for "affordable" housing? Does anyone care that you are paying for all of this? If so, who defends your right to protect your wallet and why do we not see cries for more Federal investigations?

Thus, we really have no clue who Connecticut's State Government represents. We see it really is not the working taxpayers of the state but an array of the political connected, the political czars, the politically affluent, The Great Connecticut Administrative State that both sides of the aisle continually fawn over, and the Democrat Party all rolled into one dictating what you can and cannot have. It is a Socialists paradise. And you, the taxpayer, be damned for questioning any of it.

Maybe, just maybe answers to the questions I presented above could become the focus of this year's state election? Even better, perhaps you can ask these questions directly to candidates at Town Halls and online meetings. Because for certain, neither anyone in the political system, administrative state, or the “legitimate media”, will ever do so.

 

Connecticut's Imploding State Government- Ten Long Years Later

 Ten years ago on April 2, 2016, I wrote a blog on layoffs in Connecticut's state government. (https://swickspeak.blogspot.com/2016/04/connecticuts-imploding-state-government.html). In review of the same, it was a shock, even to me, as to how far economic conditions in the once-proud Nutmeg State of Connecticut have sunk.

In 2016, there were 45,000 full time state employees. In addition, there were over 46,000 state pension retirees in 2014 that cost about $1.6 billion dollars to the state in both short term and long term liabilities (http://ctsunlight.org/pensions/).  Fast forward to 2026, and there are over 74,000 state employees, being an increase of roughly 61% in ten years. As of 2024, there were over 54,800 state pension retirees which is roughly an increase of 20% in ten years. (https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/all-employees-state-government-in-connecticut-fed-data.html) The costs of those retirees in 2024 were roughly $2.5 billion dollars in both short term and long-term liabilities, being an increase of roughly 67% (https://ctsunlight.org/pensions). Of course, logic and reason would lead one to believe that the added taxpayer spending is attributable to a burgeoning population. But mind us all, this is Connecticut where reason and logic have no place. 

I sadly submit unto you that Connecticut's state population in the past ten years has stayed stagnant with estimates being between 3.6 and 3.7 million people (not counting illegal immigrants in the state). To accommodate this stagnant population that is largely supported by a handful of billionaires, Connecticut's state budget has increased in the past ten years by $7.5 billion dollars or roughly 40%. The costs of salaries, pensions and benefits now are roughly 20-25% of the state budget.

The costs of living have increased dramatically in the past ten years in Connecticut, with the state now having the second highest electric rates in the country that are marked up 20% as a “public benefit” to us all. Another evident result of the rot and decline of the state is that the business-toxic climate has driven the best, brightest, and most productive far from state borders. Major world-class players such as  General Electric, Aetna, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, United Technologies, Raytheon Technologies, Carrier, Otis, Edible Arrangements, LEGO North America, Duracell, Stag Arms, Frontier Communications, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Edgewell Personal Care, Schick, Unilever, Bayer, Pfizer, UBS, RBS/NatWest, GE Capital, People’s United Bank, Bob’s Stores, Eastern Mountain Sports, Lord & Taylor, Stanley Tool, Subway, Odyssey Logistics, Rogers Corporation, Diageo North America, Pitney Bowes, Xerox, ESPN, WWE, Charter/Spectrum, Connecticut Sun, Norwich Navigators, and the Bridgeport Islanders are just a partial list of the businesses that have either severely peeled back operations or left the state entirely. When higher-paid private-sector jobholders are replaced by either low-paid workers or those requiring state subsidies, taxes increase and genuine economic activity decreases. This is a simple lesson that a high school Distributive Education student could easily learn, but such lessons have ostensibly been lost on politicians for at least a decade, without a care.

To give more color to the business-toxic climate of Connecticut, kindly bear in mind that Connecticut has one of the highest tax rates in the country as it taxes many different goods, services and occupations but still has between $100 and $150 billion dollars in short and term debt along with unfunded liabilities. Powerful economic development incentives granted under the OBBBA of 2025 are summarily ignored by politicians of both parties as they cower at the name of "Trump" who enacted these incentives and spitefully persist in the failed and costly and shady patterns of the past. Connecticut technically has yet to come out of the recession of 1991 as it has not and can not create new jobs in the private sector. The only new jobs that can be created are even more state taxpayer funded positions and unchecked, non-transparent, never to be paid back non jobs paid through surreptitious exempt organizations, funded by Connecticut Taxpayers and hand-picked by the corrupted and should-be abolished Connecticut Department of Community and Economic Development. This sick and sordid ecosystem has been the norm of Connecticut, and if such were indeed beneficial, we would not be seeing and living such poor results.

Is it somehow possible that somewhere in the not-too-distant future this false house of cards will implode? How can the state maintain this exorbitant spending on nothingness and survive economically? Is every one of the current and more than 74,000 state employees necessary? Has their productivity increased to the point that the state somehow, despite the real horrific, economic statistics that are posted year in and year out, are essential to the betterment of the state? Are Connecticut Taxpayers missing something? State officials seem much more worried to protect abortion, illegal immigrants, removing parental rights, mandating proper photo ID to return cans and bottles (but not to vote), and the further erosion and destruction of the remaining personal freedoms to legal state residents, but seemingly will not give one iota of thought to what would be necessary to fix the state economically.  

And how can it be possible not to raise taxes to support this mess? Will the remaining Connecticut Taxpayers sympathize with the state employee unions who claim high-income taxpayers do not pay enough? Or will many actually notice how many have moved to lower taxed states as they have been for years and follow?  How much more do they want the top 1% of taxpayers to pay? Does anyone consider if the handful of billionaires supporting the state will finally throw up their hands in disgust and leave? Does anyone in government ever even consider these very real possibilities?

The state election is fast approaching. And it is shaping up to be a repeat of the past 36 years of elections in the state. Does any established politician in the state recognize the seriousness of the state's economic problems? And are you really better off than you were 10 years ago? 4 years ago? 2 years ago, and or yesterday? For today and every day, for weeks, for months and for years, Connecticut's state government continues to implode. Wasted economic resources and tax dollars continue to be seen daily in our state economy.

 

As I have stated many times now, Rome did burn many years ago. Connecticut burns daily to the point of no economic return as I stated some ten years ago. And the fire has become much bigger. And virtually no one gets that. 

Who, or what will lead Connecticut from the abyss of fiscal oblivion? It is a question in search of an answer for over a decade, exacerbated by the fact that hitherto no one has been willing or able to provide such an answer. Again, I pray, May God save the once great State of Connecticut.