This past week, the world stage was treated to the inane and frenetic babblings of Chris Murphy as he railed on about all things evil concerning President Donald J. Trump. For the world, Chris is the junior Democrat U.S. Senator from Connecticut. However, for the right-thinking and taxpaying people of Connecticut Chris is a manic jerk, being a child of privilege who never had to hold gainful and profit-making employment in his entire life. This is because his father’s law firm (Shipman and Goodwin) has a hand representing about every anti-homeowner, anti-parent and anti-taxpayer body in the state. Its nice work if you can get it, however Chris failed at this work and found his way into the lowest common denominator of employment, which is the political system.
But you must give credit where credit is due. The Connecticut Demo-commie universe (unlike the State GOP) has a bench. It cultivates acolytes. It develops other similar personalities to Murphy that are high on glibness and empty headedness, bereft on governance, and short on substance. It then buys media to hammer to an unsuspecting public how wonderful these people are, and what great public servants they can be.
And the leading horse in this race for bigger and better things is the current Connecticut State Comptroller, Sean Scanlon.
By way of information, Sean Scanlon is a career politician whose salary is paid for by Connecticut Taxpayers. Like others in the horse race, he will seek higher office in the future in a jump ball with the other career Democrat politicians. He will be mentioned as a future Governor, U.S. Representative and or US Senator. He is currently the State Comptroller, however whenever we read about his fiscal acumen it is either a disaster such as the handling of his own office, (https://ctnewsjunkie.com/2025/01/08/auditors-comptrollers-office-lacked-internal-controls-for-insurance-payouts/) or an impending disaster such as the “refinancing” of the state short-term debt which, (while cheered by equally ignorant Republicans) displayed the fiscal sense of delaying debt that anyone making the minimum payment on a credit card knows is a horrific disaster to come. By way of education and training, Scanlon shows no bona-fides in economics/accounting and finance with a degree in Political Science from Boston University, and his work for Chris Murphy in a variety of positions while being a Connecticut State Representative for eight years and miraculously becoming the Executive Director of Tweed-New Haven Airport for a short and very unpopular stint. How all of this becomes functional for a Comptroller position that pays $206,062 plus benefits is beyond me and many others considering Scanlon is managing a $26 Billion dollar state budget. His job mission is "To provide accounting and financial services, to administer employee and retiree benefits, to develop accounting policy and exercise accounting oversight, and to prepare financial reports for state, federal and municipal governments and the public." (https://osc.ct.gov/about/). Thus, anyone in Connecticut, no matter their education or work experience can be a State Comptroller with Scanlon as an example, provided, they join the Democrat food chain and be manufactured according to the Chris Murphy Gold Standard of Failure.
Recently Scanlon in true Democrat Party form, condemned President Trump in his overhaul of the Federal government especially when it comes to aid. He stated on January 28, 2025; “President Trump’s reckless decision to abruptly freeze federal grants and loans will have immediate and disastrous consequences for Connecticut. As Comptroller, it’s my job to track what we get from Washington D.C. and how we spend it. In fiscal year 2024, more than $14.3 billion passed from the federal government through our state agencies directly to Connecticut residents, nonprofits, schools, and much, much more. While the exact list of impacted programs remains unclear, what is clear is this: any pause, however brief, of any federal funding will hurt people in Connecticut.” (https://osc.ct.gov/articles/comptroller-sean-scanlon-condemns-trump-administrations-reckless-suspension-of-federal-funding/). If I understand his quote correctly, this statement means that $14.3 billion dollars is either is a part of the state budget and/or is in addition to beggarly Connecticut's $22.1 billion dollar budget for 2024. Presuming Scanlon is fiscally coherent, I believe he should clarify his economically illogical and confusing remarks. Does he even have an idea as to where the money goes? He has apparently become an expert in accounting and finance. But a person with little to no experience in finance is bound to be confused in his stated remarks.
But one thing that the Democrat machine is quite good at is building personal financial dynasties at taxpayer expense. Scanlon is married to Meghan Scanlon, who has degrees in English and Political Science from the University of Connecticut and is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the “Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence” which has 18 (Eighteen-count 'em) member domestic violence organizations that provide services to victims. “Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence” is a "non-profit". The coalition serves around 40,000 individuals across the state. It receives federal and state aid along with donations. From the last public audit of 2023, Meghan Scanlon’s compensation was $126,676 plus other compensation. (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/60985675). Further, there is a massive amount of money spent in Connecticut on domestic violence victims and issues. For 2024 according to opencheckbook.ct.gov, the sum was $27.63 Million dollars in a wide array of grants. It seems alarming to me that this much money is being spent with apparently poor results since it seems that this type of violence is growing in the state. Is there an issue in the state with actually enforcing the domestic violence laws currently on statute? Are domestic violence criminals not being prosecuted? Obviously, I am not trying to make light of domestic violence however after throwing millions upon millions of dollars at it what is the net result? More domestic violence? Anyone with the least bit of reason knows that the continued high spending towards a situation that does not improve is a reinforcement of failure. Apparently, reason is a concept foreign to the Democrat-driven political system of Connecticut.
But the ostensible debacle above lends itself to questions of other failures taking place at Connecticut nonprofits. Cause IQ tells us the following: "There are 24,541 organizations in Connecticut. Combined, these Connecticut nonprofits employ 358,650 people, earn more than $57 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $195 billion." (https://www.causeiq.com/directory/connecticut-state) In scanning the records, I have always wondered why state-connected "non profit"Administrative salaries so high? Why are salaries so high especially with many "non profits" having non-paid boards who help in these organizations? Why are the state-connected non-profit salaries so high when they hire highly paid accounting and legal firms with a strong connection to state government? When someone is appointed by a "non-profit" there seems to always be a glowing press release of the person and their qualifications that usually lead to the connection of a politician. But again, why are the salaries so high? And are the actual results of these "non profits" truly helping the people who need the help? Washington and Hartford spend billions of dollars in social welfare programs with ostensibly little to no result as many of those to whom fiduciary or oversight responsibility is granted are making out quite well. Why is this the case?
But the Gold Standard in Connecticut also means that there seems never to be a conflict of interest of elected Democrat officials with their spouses/family/friends and there businesses/jobs/non-profits all working on the public dole and in most cases against the interest of the non-politically connected taxpayer. We have the shambles of Governor Ned Lamont and his wife and their countless "no conflict of interest" investments and other endeavors in (Oak HC/FT Partners) from associated companies relating to the Covid-19 crisis that include "Thermo Fisher Scientific", “Digital Currency Group”, “ADVANCE CT”, “4-CT” "Sema 4", " Core Infomatics", “UNITE US”, “Centrellis”. "Ocrulus", "Urjanet", "1life Healthcare", "Galileo Health", "Castlight Health", "Paladina Health", and "VillageMD" to name several that appear to have received cash or other like favors from the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development. We can also look at the Connecticut State Pier Project, in which former Office of Policy Management (OPM) Secretary Kosta Diamantis oversaw. He resigned in October of 2021 after a scandal involving his daughter’s hiring at the State’s Attorney’s office. The project is filled with massive cost overruns which were denied initially by Diamantis. Also look at “Connecticut Foodshare, Inc.” and its CEO Jason Jakubowski who earns compensation of $292,739 along with other compensation of $53,514 (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/61063025). He was named in 2012 as one of Connecticut's seven electors for President Barack Obama. This is more than three times the salary of his actually competent and dedicated predecessor. There are many other examples, but we now see how critically important that $14.3 billion dollars is to, for example, Sean and Meghan Scanlon to continue their careers funded by Taxpayers. Same goes for Ned and Annie Lamont. For one needs to ask what these people are actually capable of doing but for taking large gulps of taxpayer money.
But on the Federal level, there is hope. The new “DOGE” Department of the Federal Government has shown a great deal of waste in Taxpayers’ monies and their allocations everywhere. Decent people everywhere are now seeing the tip of the volcano erupting for fraud, deception, a lack of transparency along with a massive waste of Taxpayers money. Connecticut's short- and long-term debt along with its unfunded liabilities is roughly $100 to $150 billion dollars. The Nation Debt is $36 trillion dollars. A real and serious Republican candidate for 2026 would make the endeavor to bring a DOGE style effort and root out corruption his or her lead campaign and governance point. No candidate thus far have breathed a word of anything close to this. It should have been investigated years ago.
Taxpayers at all levels of government should not be ripped off anymore. Accountability and transparency need to be at the center of all government politicians, grants, programs, and agencies. Conflicts of interest should not exist. Republican candidates actually have to stand boldly for what is right as opposed to what is wrong. Republicans at all levels need to call for the censure of Chris Murphy. Intelligent taxpaying citizens will tolerate this horrific mess no longer.
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