IT IS TIME FOR THE CONNECTICUT REPUBLICAN PARTY TO FINALLY GET REAL ABOUT STATE CORRUPTION.

 

It has finally happened. Connecticut Major Parties have picked their candidates for the upcoming election in November. However, sitting Governor Ned Lamont faces a primary challenge by a new breed young Democrat (Josh Elliott) who has grand Communist and Socialist ideas that we have heard all before and have failed all before in every other place in the world. Given past practices, I am confident that Lamont will cut a deal with this ideological wizard to preserve his gravy train of income and profits from Connecticut taxpayers.

Speaking of corruption, and as I discussed last week, Citizen Journalist Kristi Talmadge wrote a brilliant summary of the myriad and complex wrongdoings of Ned and his sidekick spouse Annie Lamont for the Connecticut Centinal (https://connecticutcentinal.com/opinion/2026/05/15/connecticuts-untouchable-democrat-power-couple/). Kristi has recapped precisely what my colleague Tony De Angelo has discussing since the beginning of the never ending Covid crisis in the state back in 2021. I highly recommend everyone to read this concise discussion of outright fraud that has taken place in the state.

Here are some major points to refresh our readers memories taken from the article, including (but in no way limited to) both Lamont’s governing the state via the use of a private family-office e mail server:

While Governor Ned Lamont publicly released his 2021 tax returns in October 2022, revealing an eye-popping $54 million in adjusted gross income, the vast majority from investment and capital gains, the public remains completely in the dark about First Lady Annie Lamont’s finances. Because the couple files separately (“Married Filing Separately”), Annie Lamont’s substantial earnings, distributions, and partnership income as co-founder and managing partner of OAK HC/FT Partners stay entirely shielded from disclosure.

This convenient arrangement lets Ned project selective transparency while the full scope of the family’s wealth, and any potential profits tied to the very venture capital firm at the center of no-bid COVID contracts, offshore vehicles, and state-favor allegations, remains hidden from Connecticut taxpayers.

This is not “gotcha” politics. It is a systemic failure of accountability that erodes trust in government. Every Connecticut family struggling with high taxes, crumbling infrastructure, and post-COVID economic fallout has a right to know whether public dollars were steered to enrich the First Family’s venture capital empire.

The call is clear:

• The FBI’s New Haven field office and U.S. Attorney must open a public corruption probe into potential wire fraud, honest-services fraud, and conflicts involving state contracts, the private server, and offshore flows.

• The Connecticut State Auditor and Legislature must immediately subpoena the family server (or what remains), full OAK portfolio vs. state spending cross-checks, UConn Foundation investment records, and Advance CT meeting logs.

• Forensic IT recovery experts should examine the private server for deletions and backups.

• All OAK HC/FT portfolio companies must be mapped against every state grant, loan, contract, or policy favor since 2019.

 As I stated in my blog last week:

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? (https://swickspeak.blogspot.com/2026/05/connecticut-politics-corruption-is-our.html)

 Over the course of the weekend of May 15, great talk and anticipation of a brave new Republican world spread throughout the party and the state. However, being one who has either been involved or has observed the failures of the CT GOP for decades I have one  simple question for the Republican Gubernatorial/Lt. Governor nominees Ryan Fazio and Matt Corey: Will these gentlemen ask and pursue these same questions during the upcoming campaign and get to the bottom of this corruption once and for all?  Will we finally see FOIA granted to the myriad and surreptitious nonprofits that are funded with Connecticut tax dollars? Or does the corruption get swept under the rug for another four years with the third term of embezzlement of Taxpayers monies for the Lamont’s’? Or, are Connecticut Taxpayers subject to more weak and wan Republican statements against corruption, where nothing meaningful will ever be done.

 Legitimate questions deserve legitimate answers. The corruption of Connecticut's government and rip off of the Connecticut Taxpayers needs to be stopped. 

The trail is more than established, There are no longer any excuses. I call upon the Fazio/Corey ticket to act on it.

The next Swick Speak column will be on June 6th. Have a nice holiday. 

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.