The Serious Problems of Unserious Democrat Connecticut

Ned Lamont's Democrat Connecticut has many serious problems.  Economically, the state has lost a great deal of major businesses and corporate taxpayers that have moved to lower taxed and better-run states.  Aetna, General Electric, Edible Arrangements, Pepperidge Farms, MassMutual, Unilever, UTC, Carrier, Lego, Frontier, Stag Arms, and Alexion Pharmaceuticals are just few of the companies that have moved out.  Quality jobs are hard to come by, even though Ned Lamont's Democrat Connecticut has funneled plenty of money to his “winners” in his family's hedge fund.  Connecticut Taxpayers still have no official answers as to investments made and Lamont relationships with Sema-4, Digital Currency Group and its affiliates, ADVANCECT, 4-CT, Boston Consulting Group, Digital Currency Group, UNITE US, Mt. Sinai Genomics, McKinsey and the bulbous Ned Lamont-connected Cayman Islands Limited Partnerships that remain a secret via a huge blanket of cover from state-run media.  Connecticut's economy constantly trails the rest of the country due to high taxes, high state debt, high workers compensation insurance costs, a poor infrastructure and rampant crime all being factors. 

Money is serially thrown at businesses that are politically connected with no accountability whatsoever as to repayments of loans. This past budget featured over $823 million dollars spent for "economic development".  Connecticut does not have practically anything to show for almost $1 billion dollars being spent by the (should-be-abolished) CT Department of Economic and Community Development.   This is a serious problem that is not treated at all as serious by the unserious Connecticut Democrat Party.

Pervasive voter fraud enabled by the insecure and comical "ballot boxes" spread throughout the state nurture the feelings that your vote really does not count in Connecticut, especially in Bridgeport.  How difficult is it to investigate ballot fraud in Bridgeport?  Ostensibly it is exceedingly difficult since fraud is still being investigated from 2019.  The Democrat Ganim regime must control the city at all costs!  The latest ballot stuffing incident is apparently no big deal.  Restating what I wrote from last week: Connecticut's unserious Democrat Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas condescendingly stated that: "This situation is not about partisan politics, it’s not about a broken electoral system. This isn’t even about absentee ballot systems,” Thomas said. “It’s about a few bad actors and an undereducated electorate.” (https://insideinvestigator.org/sots-bridgeport-ballot-scandal-result-of-bad-actors-and-under-educated-electorate)  Yes voters! You are considered uneducated since your vote obviously does not count in Bridgeport unless you vote for the corrupted Democrat machine!  I am confident that this current ballot fraud will be swept away again, and Joe Ganim and his pattern of incoherent gibberish will be able to do two more years of damage to the city.  It is a serious problem that is not treated at all as such by the unserious Connecticut Democrat Party.

Crime in Connecticut is at all time high even though "statistics" show otherwise.   Connecticut Taxpayers must live in constant fear of stolen cars, (some even at gunpoint), robberies after placing their groceries in their cars, home invasions, murder in cold blood as innocent bystanders, bank robberies, constant shoplifting in retail stores and much more.  Even new books from public libraries are being stolen. Criminal convictions are down, as there seems to be no sense of urgency to convict criminals especially juvenile delinquents who in some cases are already career criminals.  Who pays the costs of these crimes?  Connecticut taxpayers will of course through higher retail store prices and much higher auto insurance rates.  Legal private property rights seem to be outdated.  And do not forget the shortages and de-funding of police departments.  Criminals are the victims, and the victims are treated as the criminals.  All are serious problems that are not treated at all as such by the unserious Connecticut Democrat Party.

Debt is still an overwhelming issue in the state.  Swept under the rug and no longer mentioned is the massive, short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities of anywhere from $100 to $125 billion dollars.  State spending increases each year with no accountability and/ or positive economic results. More cronies and hangers-on appear every week in state government. It is a serious problem that is not treated at all as such by the unserious Connecticut Democrat Party.

There are many serious problems in Connecticut.  In most cases they are ignored, dismissed as being irrelevant, shunned, and forgotten about in the perfidious regime of His Royal Con-Man, King Ned Lamont, The Unaccountable.  Unpaid citizen journalists giving their honest best are admonished, berated, and reprimanded for bringing up the daily news of crime, corruption, and the general lack of ethics our elected officials have in the state.  There are serious problems that will never be treated at all as such by the unserious Connecticut Democrat Party.  They do not want to acknowledge the decay, filth and rot they turned Connecticut into as it fast approaches the new dynamics of 1776 all over again.

Election Fraud Runs Rampant in Connecticut

Bridgeport is a sad state of affairs, which is a shame given its natural assets and location.  It has high taxes, a mountain of debt and a high crime rate.   Its current Mayor, Joe Ganim, was convicted in 2003 on a mere sixteen corruption charges, including racketeering, extortion, bribery, and mail fraud, and he served seven years in prison.  Not to be outdone and apparently to do more damage to the crime free city, Ganim became Mayor again in 2015 pretty much picking up where he left off.   During 2018-19, five municipal employees under Ganim were arrested.  Police chief Armando Perez and personnel director David Dunn were charged in September 2018 for conspiring to help Perez cheat to get the police chief position. The two were convicted and sentenced.  In May 2019, State Senator Dennis Bradley and school board member Jessica Martinez were charged for allegedly trying to fraudulently obtain state public campaign financing.  Also in May 2019, City Councilman Michael DeFilippo was charged for illegalities involving absentee or mail-in ballots.  

The past primary on September 12th for Mayor in Bridgeport saw Ganim incredibly winning again by a mere 251 votes when all absentee ballots were counted.  However, a September 5 video taken from the Morton Center in Bridgeport distributed by Mayor challenger John Gomes shows a city employee Wanda Geter-Pataki, who is the Vice-Chair of the Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee, an employee of the City of Bridgeport, a front desk receptionist at the Bridgeport Government Center, and a supporter of Mayor Joe Ganim, stuffing what appear to be absentee ballots on multiple occasions into a publicly designated container.  Also, it has been stated that an internal surveillance video also shows that Geter-Pataki handed ballots to another unnamed city employee who proceeded to place those ballots in the same box.  Geter-Pataki has been placed on paid administrative leave from her job since this video.   As of the time of this writing, Mr. Gomes’ campaign has filed twenty-two separate complaints to both the Office of the Secretary of the State and the State Enforcement Elections Commission regarding voting issues.  State and Bridgeport police investigations are starting also as of the time of this writing.  The state is still investigating alleged voter fraud from the 2019 election with possible investigations into three people with close ties with the Ganim campaign.  

Regarding the alleged fraud, Connecticut's Democrat Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas condescendingly stated that: "This situation is not about partisan politics, it’s not about a broken electoral system. This isn’t even about absentee ballot systems,” Thomas said. “It’s about a few bad actors and an undereducated electorate.” (https://insideinvestigator.org/sots-bridgeport-ballot-scandal-result-of-bad-actors-and-under-educated-electorate). How is the electorate under-educated?  How many bad actors constantly are found in Democrat Bridgeport?  It is apparent by Secretary of State Thomas above quote that she is toeing the unaccountable for anything Democrat Party line that they can do no wrong and it is obviously the voter's fault for what they did.  Although Mr. Gomes is sincere in his request for heightened state oversight for a new election, regrettably more money for the serial ineptitude that is the Secretary of State's office will not solve this problem, given the ineptitude and unseriousness of said office, from the top down.

Taxpayers and homeowners, especially those in Bridgeport, should be sickened by many aspects of the ongoing corruption in Democrat Mayor Ganim's administration and campaign.  He obviously continues to place himself above the law like most Democrats in Connecticut do, following the pattern from His Royal Con-Man King Ned Lamont “The Unaccountable”.  I do not understand how Connecticut allows a convicted felon to run for office again.  It is obvious to many that corruption reigns supreme in Bridgeport, Ganim and his political operatives use this poor decaying city as their personal bank accounts. Civil rights of its citizens are discarded, and ethics are non-existent.  Why is this happening over and over again in Bridgeport?  Where is the outcry by the elites in the Democrat Party over this obvious fraud and misconduct and their usual shrieks about “our democracy?”  Why are Taxpayers good monies being used to pay for this abuse of its vote and political system?  

As Democrat Party corruption in its purest sense keeps getting ignored, it becomes the norm.  The norm of a complete failure of the right to vote and the right to a democracy.  In Bridgeport and other Connecticut towns and cities these failures are embraced and rewarded.  Bridgeport deserves better than another two failed years of the Ganim extortion administration of economic and social failures.

 Ganim and his cartel need to go once and for all. And the clock may tick for 1776 in Bridgeport first before it ticks in other places.

 

Back in November 2020, Things Were Different

 

You are better off than you were in November 2020.  You did not realize that.  You, as a Taxpayer are apparently not thankful that you are dealing with a massive amount of economic and social problems that the Connecticut Democrat Party along with their Corrupt Democrat President help to create over the past three years. That said, how ungrateful can you be?

Back in November 2020 you did not have runaway inflation creating both a massive loss of middle class and senior citizen wealth in the country.  This loss causes many Americans to go deeper and deeper into debt since the costs of energy, food, housing, interest rates and insurances have gone up by an incredible amount.  Consumer and business debt is at an all-time high with the possibilities of many bankruptcies occurring in the near future.  Those on fixed incomes do not have any room for economic error since this runaway inflation.  But the Democrat Party and the state-run media wants you to believe you are better off than you were in November 2020.  You do not realize that?

Back in November 2020 you did not have unchecked and rampant illegal immigration taking place at the border.  You had an orderly process of applications and procedures for an individual to apply to get into our country.  It is clear that there are stronger screening processes taking place at our airports when legal citizens fly, as compared to illegals at the border.  Today it is acceptable whether you a criminal, cartel member, human/drug trafficker, and or terrorist you are now welcomed with open arms and Taxpayer money to enjoy a new reign of terror on our country compliments of the failed Democrat Biden Presidency.  Just look at the disaster in Texas.  Just look at the sickening squalor of Democrat-run Sanctuary cities in our country like San Francisco, Chicago, New York City and Boston. But the Democrat Party and the state-run media wants you to believe you are better off than you were in November 2020.  You don't realize that?

Back in November 2020 you did not have unchecked crime and murders in your communities.  You did not have underage and unlicensed juvenile delinquents stealing your autos on a daily basis in Connecticut and many other Democrat run communities.  You did not have a 12- year- old juvenile delinquent stealing a vehicle in Bridgeport, CT as was experienced this past week.  Your Democrat run cities did not have unaccountable shootings and murders committed with illegal guns.  The costs to Taxpayers are enormous for this crime as injured victims walk into hospitals getting treatments paid for by government in most cases, and your home and car insurance continues to increase to offset the enormous number of claims made by the innocent victims of these crimes.  You are not safe even in broad daylight doing grocery shopping as hit and run drive by criminals work their beats.   Police have become the enemies while the criminal is treated as victim.  Moral and law-abiding citizens and Taxpayers are the criminals now. But the Democrat Party and the state-run media wants you to believe you are better off than you were in November 2020.  You don't realize that?

Back in November 2020 you did not have to worry about having your child taken away from you nor be informed on what was going on in their school life by their school officials, especially with respect to gender changes.  Today, you no longer have control and parental rights over your children.  Many schools wish to hide sex changes and any personal information on their children from their parents.  When and why did this happen? But the Democrat Party and the state-run media wants you to believe you are better off than you were in November 2020.  You don't realize that?

Back in November 2020 you did not have to worry about your President or Vice President selling their offices for financial gain.  Today the overwhelming evidence against President Biden, his son, and the Biden family in basically selling United States policies and influence with foreign peddlers for their own personal financial gain has been ignored, discredited, and covered up by law enforcement officials, government agencies and the state-run media.  But the Democrat Party and the same state-run media wishes for you to believe that President Trump and the constant lawsuits thrown at him are justified in our fast becoming "Banana Republic" judicial system that ignores our Constitution. Taxpayers work for government officials for their financial gain.  You don't realize that?

Back in November, 2020, you could rest assured that the administration of King Ned Lamont “The Unaccountable” was operating under the highest of ethical standards and he, his wife’s family investors, and the Connecticut Administrative State was doing all it could at every moment to keep us all “Safe from Covid” and the King himself pre-emptively set up a blind trust to ensure that his family investors would never be able to profit off of the backs of the poor Connecticut Taxpayers. But in 2023, the Democrat Party and the same state-run media now totally have amnesia about that past complex costly fraud and now ignore any  new double deals from state associated characters whatsoever, including (but not limited to) the The Unaccountable’s direct relationship to investments by the Saudi Public Investment Fund. All continues to be better than ever, and Connecticut is enjoying a great renaissance!  You don't realize that?    

  Lies, deception, distortion, corruption, a lack of ethics, laws that don't apply to the Democrats but only to President Trump, a total lack of respect for the Constitution is what our government is all about in September 2023.  The debacle that we must endure is the responsibility of a Corrupt Democrat President and his incompetent Democrat Party at all levels.  Black is not white and white is not black.  The destruction of our economy and society by a Corrupt Democrat President and his incompetent Democrat Party minions should not be the new norm.  It is not acceptable to our country and states and its legal citizens.  The mess that a Corrupt Democrat President and his incompetent Democrat Party have created needs to end now. We cannot deny the evil that is ever present in our country as it truly is 1776 all over again. 

You don’t realize that?

Connecticut's Democrat Climate Crisis. (What? You DON’T believe me?).

The sky is falling, the sky is falling!  Yes, the Connecticut Democrat Induced Climate Change Crisis is in full gear and the sky is falling in Connecticut.  What do you mean you don't believe me?  Well, I don't believe it myself, but that is immaterial. Get with the Democrat programs and propaganda!  Now! If you don't believe that Connecticut should adopt California style emissions, eliminate all gas cars and trucks, stop using all fossil fuels (especially oil), dig up the natural oceans to build wind turbines that kill and maim birds and sea life, stop using fireplaces and stoves to burn heating wood, eliminate heating oil and other assorted normal energy to heat and cool your homes or for making fuel for driving, you are considered to be many things such as unreasonable, tyrannical, conservative, uneducated, antisemitic, needing re-education on the climate change crisis and in all probability, racist.

What? You DON’T believe me?

The Connecticut's Democrat Climate Crisis led by King Ned Lamont "The Unaccountable" and his regime is too good of a crisis for them to pass up.  Think of the self-sacrifices of our Democrat Ruling Class! For example, we now see our elected Democrat Party officials walking everywhere to their political functions daily and no longer using fossil fuels!  As an example, Democrat/Communist United States Senator Richard Blumenthal apparently walks to all of his press conferences now spouting his incoherent unrelenting gibberish known as "his solutions" to the unrelenting climate crisis Connecticut Taxpayers are responsible for, especially when they breathe.  The Democrats in the State House and State Senate all walk to the state capitol for their meetings and use candles instead of electricity in session.  

What you don't believe me?

(And of course, we see nothing of the sort from these phony-baloney tin-horn characters).

Or, how about the climate crisis damage some Connecticut Republicans/Independents cause when they have positive thoughts about former President Trump and his victory in November 2024? We also see that President Trump is also responsible for both global warming and the Democrat Party Climate Crisis.

What? You DON’T believe me?

Can you imagine how economically damaged to the point of no return the state will become if Connecticut Taxpayers do not follow the Connecticut Democrat Induced Climate Change Crisis guidelines in eliminating all fossil fuels and all things that make life livable?  You think I am kidding?  Don't you believe that “economically damaged to the point of no return” includes Armageddon to Democrat “economic prosperity programs” like Bideonomics, by definition? 

What? You DON’T believe me?

Common sense in the opinion of many does not exist in the socialist rule of King Ned Lamont "The Unaccountable’s" Democrat Connecticut.  The lack of economic logic being force fed by the Multi-Millionaire Governor on Connecticut Taxpayers with regards to Connecticut's Democrat Climate Crisis is beyond sickening.  There are many ways for the state economy to gradually reduce some of its evil dependency on fossil fuels (since it is somehow bad to have a prosperous Connecticut economy), in a logical and sane manner.  Electric cars are not the solution or electric public buses that explode and catch on fire. Nor is the destruction of Connecticut's coastline with unsightly turbines being built ruining and killing our sea life and innocent sea mammals.  It is time to stop the propaganda and absolute lunacy of this Democrat Party climate crisis.  It is time to stop the wholesale destruction of the state's economy.  It is time to stop the dictatorial and self-dealing rule of King Ned Lamont "The Unaccountable’s" Democrat Party in Connecticut with all of its horrific policies and programs that continue to make the state a vast economic wasteland.   

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, it is 1776 once again. 

What? You DON’T believe me?

 

Connecticut's Department of Economic and Community Development: A Taxpayer's Wasteland

 On this Labor Day Weekend 2023, it is apropos to remember that many minion-type Connecticut Taxpayers support the State of Connecticut to nurture a vast economic wasteland.  This wasteland is better known as the “Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development”, better known as the "DECD".  The DECD has had a history of serious problems including, but not limited to, its annual audits.  For many years the DECD also has had massive problems when it comes to the economic tasks of what it was supposedly created to do.  For example, from 2011 to 2017 over $1.8 billion dollars was spent by the state in many different so-called “economic development” programs.  During that same period, job growth was the slowest in the nation and Connecticut was last or nearly last in most business and economic categories in the country.  Worse yet, the DECD did not start undergoing audits until 2017.  Its first audit and every audit since then has shown many issues and problems that have never been resolved year and year out.  But year in and year out, the same Connecticut Taxpayers underwrite this debacle and failure of a true politically tainted and inept state-run agency.

What happened in these audits?  Some examples include (but are not limited to), the following:

The DECD overstated the number of jobs created and or retained along with the financial and economic impact of these same programs.  The DECD did not properly check out companies requesting loans by giving loans and in some cases second loans even though the companies did not meet job creation requirements and/or were not making payments on their loans.  Between 2020 and 2022, audits showed that the DECD omitted statutorily required information, and had unsupported data and economic impact analyses.  For a responsible private sector firm, such continual misrepresentation and possible fraud would result in fines and likely jail terms. A great deal of audit issues are public knowledge and have been raised  in the past by myself and by my good friend Tony De Angelo on his weekly Tuesday A.M. segment on the Lee Elci Show on 94.9FM.

As Tony likes to say, “if you like Peanut Butter, you will love Skippy!” , so needless to say, the latest audit states that "The report by State Auditors John Geragosian and Clark Chapin says the DECD omitted statutorily required information by failing to report the economic impact of incentives administered by Connecticut Innovations, the state's quasi-public venture capital arm, and failing to indicate whether their programs were meeting intended goals." (https://www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/ct-economic-development-agency-audit-finds-errors-and-omissions-totaling-millions). Why are the problems that were reported in the past repeated in yearly audits?  It is ostensible that the Department of Economic and Community Development has plain wasted Connecticut Taxpayers money.  The current 30 years plus of omnipotent one-party rule of the Connecticut Democrat Party has helped to lead Connecticut into a never-ending economic ditch of high taxes, authoritarian rule, senseless laws that protect criminals and encourage crime along with outright fraud, lies, deception, and a disregard for the state Constitution. Buying jobs using Connecticut Taxpayer monies has not worked for over 30 years.  Connecticut, with or without the Department of Economic and Community Development, is basically in the same economic shape it was over 30 years ago only now with an ever-increasing debt load and unchecked state employee fixed costs for benefits, pensions and salaries. 

 It is difficult to understand the purpose of the DECD.  Is it just to pick politically connected winners and losers in the state's economy and throw money at Ned Lamont associated companies like Sema-4, Vestwell, Digital Currency Group, Boston Consulting Group, Mt. Sinai Genomics and/or McKinsey and others? Is it just to hand out minimal interest disappearing multi-million dollar “sweetheart” loans to cronies and the politically connected? I wonder how much money Connecticut Taxpayers have lost by investments made both in public and in secret by the Connecticut's DECD?  $100 million, $500 million more?  Less? Why isn't this information made public in a state as small as Connecticut that has over $150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities?   Why aren't the audit issues addressed? And if they can't be addressed then why isn't the DECD de-funded and abolished since it is not properly operating under accounting laws and rules of the state?  Why does no known political figure whatsoever call for dissolving DECD? In my opinion DECD is just as corrupt as Governor Ned Lamont and should be shut down.  But in a state as corrupt as Connecticut what's a few billion dollars’ worth of Connecticut Taxpayer's wasted?  It is just politics as usual as we fast approach our new 1776.