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.

2026 Is Calling In Connecticut. Who Will Answer?

 In 1687, Connecticut declared a day of Thanksgiving to be November 3rd. They were rebuked by the Royal Governor of the Dominion of New England, Sir Edmund Andros, who ruled from his seat in Boston. When he learned of their chosen date during a visit to the colony, he immediately sought to annul the decision on the grounds that only he had the authority to name a day of Thanksgiving. Citizens in Connecticut and other New England colonies disliked being ruled by an Englishman and resented the English laws imposed on their new land. The seeds of the American Revolution were sown.

In 2025, Governor Ned Lamont of Connecticut, known affectionately by his battered subjects as “King Ned”, “The Unaccountable” , “Ned the Unrecallable”  “The Perpetual Governor” “The Prince of Greenwich” (and a whole lot of other terms and epithets unsuitable for print), arrogantly and disdainfully signed into law a community destroying zoning disaster bill known as HB 8002, a litigious manifesto guaranteeing the destruction of the long-standing character of Connecticut as we know it. Aided by his legislative operators and driven by private-equity interests from by he personally profits and is obligated to perform for, his signing of HB 8002 ushered in the age of the final destruction  of the Nutmeg State. Justifiable hatred and vitriol spouted from citizens in all corners of the state be it in print, online, or on talk radio. Virtually no taxpaying, homeowning, or non-politically connected citizen could arrive at a conclusion as to why the political system intended to destroy all that they had lawfully achieved. Like their antecedents, these poor souls disliked being ruled by an arrogant, disjointed despot and resented the horrific and nonsensical burdens thrown upon them by the incompetent people that were elected to represent them. 

Have the seeds of the Connecticut Revolution finally been sown?

Much to the chagrin of the arrogant political class, it is no longer 1687. Legal citizens wounded by the processes of arrogant government are now demanding transparency and accountability from said government. For in point of fact, the rule of law in Connecticut is decreed with no input from Connecticut taxpayers, no public hearings for new laws mandated on the population, there is never any referendums, and there is no regard for the state Constitution. There is serial disregard for the set of laws that govern the state, either by state judges or state officials. It is now quite clear that Connecticut is ruled in a cruel and oppressive manner by a self-appointed and self-profiting political hierarchy that hates and abuses its ordinary citizens and feasts upon the elimination of personal freedoms, economic freedoms, and personal property rights (as just seen with the enactment of HB 8002 into law).

Due to this rape of government and governance process, many are hopeful that 2026 will see a second revolution taking place in Connecticut. The first will be celebrated 250 years later on July 4, 2026. The second might possibly occur on November 3, 2026, when Connecticut holds its elections. A new Governor could emerge from that election, along with a State Senate and State House that become Republican rather than maintaining the omnipotent, incompetent, and destructive legendary one-party rule of the Connecticut Democrat Party. Starting from now, all sorts of gaming and backroom political deals are being negotiated in both parties. The huge political plum of highly paid state nonjobs is being jockeyed for. Despite the continual failure and malfeasance of the (should-be-abolished-scandal ridden) Connecticut Department of Economic Development (“DECD”), the lure of  free taxpayer money in the form interest-free, forgiven “economic” loans, shady undisclosed loans, and race-based loans are now being discussed in the traditional horse-trading manner using Democrat Party donations, votes, and that are sought after sinecure of being a Commissioner of something-or-other, regardless of personal ability and qualification. And in the executive suite of this putrid boiler-room, the Lamont reign continues its gaming with its neat cloak of Cayman Island accounts, deals hiding in nonprofits such as the UCONN Foundation and ADVANCE CT,  and working through “quasi-public” organizations such as the now-clearly Lamont-connected (and covert) “Connecticut Innovations”, needless to say a subsidiary of that same, failed DECD.  

But is there hope for improvement? As of now, It is now clear that two young candidates have emerged in the race for Governor on the Republican ticket: former New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart and Greenwich State Senator Ryan Fazio. Stewart chose to run for Governor rather than seek re-election as Mayor after 12 years. The question on many minds is: if Stewart was such a good Mayor, why did a Democrat liberal named Bobby Sanchez become elected as the new Mayor rather than the Republican candidate replacing Erin Stewart? Does this lack of momentum carry over into her run for Governor as a Republican? As questions abound on social media as to her real commitment to Republican principles, or sometimes any principles that could be clearly ascertained.

It is my opinion that State Senator Ryan Fazio seems to have more to offer in his candidacy for Governor, as he demonstrates conceptual conservatism in several of his ideas and has been active in the Connecticut State Senate. Will this be enough to satisfy the Republican Party and its members? There are a great many voters who supported President Trump, contrary to what the Republican Party elites believed or gave credit for. Can they be given a candidate they can endorse and support both financially and in getting out the conservative message and vote, especially in the inner cities and among young voters? These are the same young voters who are accepting without question the horrors and lies of both socialism and communism.

However, both of these young candidates  have either not grasped, (or have ignored) the brutal destruction of Connecticut largely at the hand of the Lamont administration and of the Connecticut administrative state, to date. Will either candidate stand up to corruption? Will either candidate have the temerity and the intestinal fortitude to rail Ned Lamont (and where necessary, Ann Lamont) for the myriad and well-documented history of profiting from the state? Will either candidate have the ability and leadership skills to appoint competent Commissioners that will dismantle and revamp malignant bureaucracies such as the DECD? And this is a short list of critical tasks, but all are so critically needed to fix the wreckage called Connecticut. Ignoring these issues is an insult to every legitimate taxpaying citizen.

You see regardless of what you may be told, Connecticut is not in good shape financially or socially. The state 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, and a critical crisis in the ethics, honesty, information sharing, and transparency of its state government, all of which are funded by Connecticut taxpayers. It is an abysmal failure going somewhere to happen.

And as I have mentioned earlier, the fix-it list above is a short one. While Republicans are deciding, Connecticut’s Democrat Party continues its push toward more stringent socialist/communist means and methods: to eliminate opposition, eliminate public comments, eliminate options, and eliminate all transparency. Creation of an all-powerful, centralized, state-controlled government mindset is Job Number 1. The government can do no wrong, and you, as a Connecticut taxpayer, can do no right. For the "elephant" in the Republican living room is a question: Does either young candidate have the temerity and the personal and professional skill and running gear to deal with this oncoming train as well? Given present conditions, no, is an unacceptable answer.

Sadly, Connecticut is in such bad shape that the characteristics mentioned above are no longer nice to have, but are now critical requirements. It is your choice as a Connecticut voter in 2026 to break these atrocious chains of indentured chattel slavery that the Connecticut Democrat Party has wrapped around you. Its up to you to insist that your candidate has all of the necessary tools to fix the mess, once and for all. If a person that checks all of those boxes is elected as a Republican governor, rest assured that the Second revolution of Connecticut will soon be in the offing. 

For the humble, taxpaying citizens of Connecticut now know what the issues are, and frankly want and need to see a complete housecleaning of the Royal Castle and its associated Court Jesters. 

It is now 2025 and no longer 1687.