Sunday, November 04, 2012

Vote Tuesday-Help To Change Our Country And State

Vote Tuesday
Let us help change our country and our state.
We have had enough words without actions by the Democratic party in both Washington and Hartford.
Vote for Linda McMahon as our new United States Senator.
Vote for Len Fasano in the 34th Senatorial District.
Vote for Greg Bachand for State Representative.
And lastly vote for an economic renaissance with the Republican team of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.
Let us end one party rule in Hartford and in Washington once and for all.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Keep Len Fasano State Senator in the 34 Senatorial District


Reelect State Senator Len Fasano in the 34th Senatorial District which covers now Durham,  East Haven, North Haven and Wallingford.

As State Senator, Mr. Fasano has done an excellent job representing our community.  He is an advocate of lower taxes, less governmental interference in business and industry, and economic growth and prosperity for our state something sorely lacking with our current one party rule in Hartford.  His opponent an out-of-touch liberal Democrat who failed as a State Representative offers little if any plan than more and higher taxes and out-of-control state spending.  We as taxpayers deserve better.

From the Fasano for Senate website: http://fasanoforstatesenate.com/Senator Fasano has an extensive record of public service accomplishments in Hartford and in the 34th District. Joining his legislative Republican colleagues he has and will continue to propose ways to make state government more cost-effective and efficient. He has also maintained his commitment to small businesses in Connecticut by being an advocate for business-friendly policies.
 Senator Fasano is also the driving force behind Connecticut’s first public cord blood bank system. Around the country this cutting edge technology has allowed families and individuals to tap into rich nutrients provided by umbilical cord blood in their effort to fight disease.
 He has also championed efforts to reform Connecticut’s eminent domain laws, protect Long Island Sound from Broadwater’s attempt to construct a liquefied natural gas terminal and has helped to protect the neighborhood surrounding Tweed New Haven Airport by helping to broker an agreement between the Town of East Haven, the airport and state officials.

Let us keep Len Fasano as our State Senator for the 34th State Senatorial District.  Let us end once and for all one party rule in Hartford.





Monday, October 22, 2012

State Representative Greg Bachand For Wallingford's 85th District

Why does Wallingford continue to elect Mary Mushinsky for State Representative?  32 years of runaway spending and higher taxes.  Why do have to have this economic nightmare continue to serve in office?  Why must Connecticut be at the bottom of the economic spectrum due to career politicians like Ms. Mushinsky?
Connecticut is an economic nightmare due to career politicians like Mushinsky.  We can not sustain the excessive levels of taxes or spending that we have in our state.
Greg Bachand represents a breath of economic fresh air.  It is time for a change.
Vote for Greg Bachand
I enjoyed reading following from his website:   http://www.electbachand.com/


It’s Time For More
More Tax Cuts
Cuts in the Income Tax, Estate Tax, Sales Tax. Cuts in DMV fees, Court fees, Agency fees. You name it, cut it because the more we send to Hartford the more they will spend….and spend and spend.
More Bureaucracy Cuts
Ever see a big orange truck protecting another big orange truck which is protecting another big orange truck protecting a lawn mower?  It’s time for one big orange truck protecting one mower.  And that example extends to every nook and cranny of the State bureaucracy.
More Budget Cuts
Never have so few spent so much and accomplished so little.  Cut the budget and watch the State’s economy blossom.
We are strangling our small businesses with red tape and approval processes that make it impossible to thrive.  Let’s tell the regulators: “you can keep half of your regulations, which are the most important?”
Lower taxes, reduce the bureaucracy, cut regulations and get out of the way.  Boom, private jobs will explode.
The truth is, the bigger government gets, the less freedom we have.  Time for smaller government.
Vote for Greg Bachand

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Chris Murphy Represents Chris Murphy Not Connecticut-Vote Linda

Gee Chris what is the difference with a union giving money to your campaign or a corporation?  The ultimate cost is paid for by either the union worker or by the consumer buying the product or service from the corporation.  Sort of like the donations you received from Webster Bank.  Sort of like when you forgot to pay your mortgage or your taxes.
Chris Murphy represents Chris Murphy not Connecticut and definitely not those people who actually work in our state.  Chris Murphy has never created one job in his long political career. To me I really can not see that he ever worked one day in his life at a productive job.  So how does he understand the over worked and over taxed middle class of Connecticut?  It is impossible.
Last night's debate once again highlighted how poor of a US Representative Murphy is with his unrealistic views of our economy and nonsensical approaches to programs and laws.  He has been a Democrat overseer of the last four year economic debacle his party has help to produce.  He offers nothing new but the same stale rhetoric and same stale ideas.  More taxes, more spending more for Chris Murphy.
The choice for Connecticut's Senator is clear-Linda McMahon, an individual who has the strength to lead and be a Senator for the taxpayers of Connecticut.  Vote Linda.

Friday, October 12, 2012

The Ineptness of Democratic Candidates When Debating

I think most voters who watched last nights debates between McMahon and Murphy and Ryan and Biden saw the Democrats as who they really are.
I am lost after watching these debates as to why anyone would want to vote for either Chris Murphy for Connecticut Senator or the Obama and Biden team.  Especially realizing that Mr. Biden would become the President if anything happened to Mr. Obama.
I hear that Joe was Joe last night, if that is the case he is not fit to hold public office let alone be the Vice President.  However it is good to see that voters are starting to see what our current Administration is all about-political and economic ineptness, lies and spins on security issues, stimulus packages to Sesame Street, the list is endless.  It is truly amateurs in office in this taxpayer's eyes.
On a state level the misguided Murphy Senate campaign continues to stumble.  As a taxpayer I really would like an actual answer to all of Mr. Murphy's issues with his mortgages and taxes.  After all we have to pay our taxes on time but I guess I must remember that Murphy and his fellow Democrats are exempt from the tax laws that we have in our state.  What is his actual job program that he talks about?  How did he create any jobs?  Why can't he pass a federal budget which address the National Debt?  Why is a strong defense bad for our country?  In my economic opinion he is also unfit to serve our state and taxpayers.
The choices are clear and should be to anyone who still has not made up their minds to vote.
For United States Senator in Connecticut Linda McMahon.
For President Mitt Romney and Vice President Paul Ryan.
The ineptness on the part of these Democratic candidates when debating is frightening.

Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Why Won't Rosa Debate? Wayne Winsley for Congress

Why won't Rosa DeLauro debate her opponent Republican Wayne Winsley?  I guess it is beneath her to explain her robust liberalism/socialism policies to the taxpayers she supposedly represents.  Her liberalism and socialistic policies astound me as a taxpayer.  During the health care debate her only concern was to force Obamacare down our throats because of all of the people who did not have health insurance in our country.  And guess what they still do not have health insurance and our premiums are sky rocketing.
What about a plan to pay down the National Debt?  Or how about some sound economic policies which promote economic freedom not socialism?  Or what about the issues with the Notch Year Social Security recipients?
The list is endless and DeLauro has been in office way too long.
But she will not debate Republican Wayne Winsley.  Sort of like in a socialistic society-one party rule-a dictatorship-it serves her well.
I continue to be astounded as to why voters continue to vote her into office here in Connecticut's Third Congressional District.  She continues to do nothing for us except promote her brand of socialism.
Republican Wayne Winsley provides a great alternative-he believes in lower taxes, he believes in a free market economic system, he believes in a strong family base, he believes in eliminating burdensome regulations, he believes in a strong national defense and he believes in actual energy independence.
He will actually represent the taxpayers of our district and show real leadership for Congress.
You do have a choice if you live in Connecticut's Third Congressional District, you can vote for Republican Wayne Winsley for Congress and facilitate a badly needed change for the good of our district.


Thursday, October 04, 2012

What Debate? President Romney Takes Charge.

What debate?
That was a debate between Presidential candidates?
Has Mr. Obama actually been President for the past four years with high energy price inflation, non existent interest rates for savers, a $6 trillion dollar increase in the National Debt and a socialized health care plan which does little to help our countries health?  That is the record he is running on and last night proved how unprepared he is to be President and continue another four years of his economic debacle that he has nurtured as President.  What a wasted four years for our economy and nation.
Mr. Romney proved once again why he is the choice for President in November.  He proved his ability to see our nation's future, to solve our nation's problems, to develop an economic plan for economic growth in our economy and showed true leadership qualities sorely lacking in Mr. Obama.
The choice is even more clear after last night's debate.
President Romney and Vice President Ryan, true leadership for America after the four year economic nightmare we have endured.

Wednesday, October 03, 2012

The Ethics Complaint That Wasn't And No More Credibility Seen

Tuesday night in Wallingford saw the Ethics complaint that wasn't as the Wallingford resident after much rhetoric withdrew his complaint about Councilmen John LeTourneau and Tom Laffin and their supposed conflict of interest they had with Holy Trinity School and the council's actions with regards to a proposed wall repair at the school on Center Street.

Mr. Letourneau's  supposed crime was that his grandchildren were enrolled at the school.  Mr. Laffin's supposed crime was that his son attends Catholic education classes once a week at the school.  I truly hope they entertain legal action against these unfounded charges which they were forced to respond to.

I view this whole situation as a complete and utter waste of time and taxpayers monies.   Why this even reached this stage is beyond me.  And we as taxpayers should start questioning the actual political motives of these constant accusations which are brought up all the time by these "supposed" watchdogs of our town.  And we as taxpayers should start adding up how much these actions are costing us as taxpayers for the political advancement and well being of these watchdogs.

Fix the damn wall at the school and pave the damn Simpson Court parking lot.
Actions actually do speak louder than words in most cases.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

No More Taxes Or Mortgages Thanks To Chris Murphy


No More Taxes Or Mortgages Thanks To Chris Murphy!  I guess if Chris Murphy got elected as Senator we the taxpayers of Connecticut would no longer have to pay any more taxes or worry about paying our mortgages!  Wait a minute-you mean only Chris Murphy or other like Democrats in Connecticut are allowed to do this?  Why is that?  Oh because rules and laws do not seem to apply to Chris Murphy and other like Connecticut Democrats?  You mean sort of like the issues Chris Donovan faced possibly selling influence in bills and laws we the taxpayers of Connecticut have to abide by.  You mean these same laws and rules are not applicable to the Murphys and Donovans of the ruling elite-Connecticut Democrats?
I am really confused now.  
We still get to pay one of the highest state tax burdens in the country even though Chris Murphy does not to follow or possibly ignores the laws we as the taxpayers of Connecticut must follow.
Two tier system-have versus have nots.  Taxpayers versus the Connecticut Democrat Ruling Elite.
I guess we see who will win.
I am voting for Linda McMahon for United States Senator.  Not Chris Murphy and his lies.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Economic Debacle Versus Economic Renaissance?


That is the choice in the upcoming Presidential election.  Voters have a choice between another four years of an economic debacle or taking a new course with an economic renaissance taking place.  Do you really want to continue four more years of economic lies, economic uncertainty and economic malaise?  
Four more years of an Obama administration will bring more of the same.  More economic debacles.  More economic uncertainty.  More and higher taxes.  More socialized medicine.  Are you better off than you were in 2009?  Will you actually be better off in 2012 with an Obama rather than a Romney administration?
And what about you the business owner?  Do you want more regulations which will continue to strip your economic viability and profitability?  Do you want government to continue to tell you what you can and can not do in your own business?  The same business you created yourself not with any help from the government.
We can have an economic renaissance in our economy.  We can not have it with four more years of failed Obama economic policies, rules and laws.  We can not afford it any more.
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan can provide for that economic renaissance.  It can only happen with your vote for them in November.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

A 50%+ Increase In The National Debt? And You Want Him Reelected?

What is a few trillion dollars when it is not yours and you are not counting?  What is a $16 trillion dollar National Debt anyways?  What is another round of printing valueless fiat money?  What promises at what costs are needed to be so desperately reelected so that more economic debacles can occur and more National Debt can be dumped upon future generations of our country?  And what price must we continue to have this false and failed supposed leadership of the Obama Administration-why can not it mercifully end in January?
A 50% plus increase in the National Debt continues to break the economic back of our economy to the point of no return.  What is the Obama Administration's plan to eliminate the Debt?  Are there any economic plans other than the complete socialization of our economy?  Why is wealth bad and yet Democrats embrace taking away as much as they can of it to buy votes?
It is a sickening economic way to run our economy and country.  And we as a government and economy can not sustain a $16 trillion National Debt which is owned by the Obama Administration.
We need a change economically-only Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan can facilitate that change in November.

Wednesday, September 05, 2012

According To Our Governor We Are Better Off in 2012 Under Obama?

I am confused.  Our Governor Malloy who apparently spends little time here in Connecticut Governing (actually micromanaging is a better term) is stating that we are better off under Mr. Obama than four years ago from the Democratic National Convention.  I am curious if he still gets his salary while campaigning down there?
From a purely economics point of view I am astounded that our self appointed Governor-For-Life has made that statement.
Doesn't Mr. Malloy understand that the unemployment rate has yet to go down in the past four years?
Doesn't Mr. Malloy understand that many have given up trying to find work after being unemployed in the past four years?
Doesn't Mr. Malloy understand that the sub prime mortgage debacle has not been cleaned up in the past four years?
Doesn't Mr. Malloy understand that savers receive little if any interest on their savings in the past four years?
Doesn't Mr. Malloy understand that socialized health care has done little for our economy in the past four years?
Doesn't Mr. Malloy understand that Six Trillion Dollars in new National Debt has done little to stimulate our economy in the past four years?
The economic debacle list is endless under the Obama Administration.
Sorry Governor we are far from being better off than we were four years ago.  We are in a constant crisis of leadership and a constant economic crisis for four long years now.  You have done a great deal to contribute to it locally with the highest tax increase in our state's history and still running deficits.
I am still confused, thus I will be voting in November for real leaders Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan for President and Vice President.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Connecticut's Senate Race-Why I Am Voting For Linda McMahon

I am still trying to figure out what Chris Murphy is offering the taxpayers of Connecticut.  As a Representative in Congress besides missing many meetings and the like he has done little if anything for our state and nation's economy.  He has no experience in running a business and little if any experience in his life other than being a paid, professional politician.  He really has no clue of work and productivity as it seems to me that everything has been handed to him in his lifetime.
How he can represent the taxpayers of our state is beyond me?  He has no plans and or future visions of anything-he is truly a politicians politician, offering nothing to those who are productive in our economy.  He loves our welfare state and its never ending dependencies upon our failed government in Washington.  He loves the splendor of the economic debacle he currently resides over as a member of Congress.  And he loves the continual erosion of our personal freedoms which continue to be advanced by Mr. Obama.
He is a poor candidate as a Senator.
Linda McMahon is the breath of fresh air those who work for a living desperately needs as our new Connecticut Senator.  We see in Senator Blumenthal, another paid professional politician who slams business and industry yet is the seventh wealthiest member of the Senate.  We see he has done nothing to pass a budget which is mandated by the Constitution-funny for a person who slammed laws down many taxpayers and businesses as Attorney General.  He has done nothing for the taxpayers of Connecticut.  We do not need another do nothing Senator Chris Murphy to waste our taxpayers monies.  Enough is enough.
Linda McMahon is a dynamic woman who will be an excellent Senator for our State.  She is caring and has massive business experience.  She is a winner and has the ability to lead something sorely lacking in Mr. Blumenthal and Mr. Murphy.
Senator Linda McMahon, she has my vote in November.  I hope you vote for her too.

Monday, August 27, 2012

I Am Out Of My Mind According To Governor Malloy And Am Glad That I Am!

According to my Governor I am out of my mind.
I found this while Mr. Malloy was out of state campaigning for Mr. Obama:
 http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20120826-NEWS-208260352
Malloy said Obama has done a fantastic job, in his opinion.
"Anyone who votes for the Romney-Ryan team is out of their mind," he added.

Thus I am out of my mind along with a majority of voters this coming November due to our voting for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as our new President of the United States.
I will counter that one must be out of their minds to vote for Mr. Obama for four more years after the economic debacle he has created in our economy since 2009-he owns the economy now with its excessively high unemployment, lack of transparency, runaway budget deficits, and six trillion dollars in new National Debt.  It is his issue no one elses.
Thus I am out of my mind along with a majority of voters this coming November due to our voting for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as our new President of the United States.
I am glad that I am out of my mind and wish my Governor would actually stay in his state and govern for a change-but Mr. Malloy now owns the economic debacle that is Connecticut-stagnant growth, poor job formation, excessive taxation, massive budget deficits and massive unfunded liabilities.
Thus I am out of my mind along with a majority of voters this coming November due to our voting for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as our new President of the United States.


Friday, August 10, 2012

Why I Support Linda McMahon For United States Senator on Tuesday

On Tuesday August 14 I am voting in the Republican primary for a change in government.  I am voting for a change in the stale policies and politics of years gone by.  I am voting for a change in economic plans and ideas.  I am voting for a person who can place policies above politics.  I am voting for a person who is self made and actually has been a job creator.  I am voting for a person who understands business and industry.  I am voting for a person who truly will represent me and understand the severe economic climate and times that we live in.
My vote goes to Linda McMahon for our next United States Senator.  She is an articulate and economically  literate woman who has the ability to see the issues as they are.  We live in troubling times economically.  We live in times of mistrust of elected officials who say one thing to get elected and then do another in office.
Linda McMahon understands the duties she will be handed as our next United States Senator from Connecticut.  I can envision her working well with a Republican Senate and President Romney.  I can see her upholding her Constitutional duty of passing a budget something that Harry Reid and Dick Blumenthal do not understand nor care about.
I can see once again the American Dream of economic prosperity starting to reemerge from the cancer of the many years of political thievery and neglect from a Senate whose only concern is their own self interest. We will start to rid ourselves of the Democratic Senate elitism which has failed our economy miserably with misguided and economically irrational policies.
Our stale liberal Connecticut media can bash Linda McMahon all they want and support the lethargic recycled other RINO candidate-she will not yield as she will truly represent our state with ethics, dignity and rational economic thought.
I urge those voting Tuesday to Vote for Linda McMahon for our next United States Senator from Connecticut.

Tuesday, August 07, 2012

When Is The Sherwood Island Mitt Romney Fundraiser?


Mr. Malloy, I am curious as to when the Mitt Romney fundraiser will be at Sherwood Island and the use of Connecticut taxpayers monies to help pay for it?

What do you mean that a candidate can not use it for fundraising?  Oh because he is a Republican candidate that is why.  I understand now, it is ok to use my taxpayer money to help Mr. Obama raise money.  I really do not know what I was thinking; by the way I am curious as to how much did it actually cost Connecticut taxpayers last night for the events?  Oh I understand again I am not supposed to know and the liberal media can not tell me.  Silly me!

Mr. Obama talks about the poor and tax breaks for the rich while he attends a Connecticut fund raiser at $38,500 per person using apparently taxpayer’s monies to help him through his travels.  
I am curious how people who are unemployed feel about the President accepting that kind of money and then talking from the other side of his mouth about shared sacrifice.  That should make you feel good-especially coming from a President who has spent the past four years running for re election on a platform of no accomplishments and rampant deficit spending.  Maybe Mr. Obama should have tried to actually lead and govern for the past four years rather play the stale and tired blame game that he and his Democratic party has mastered.

Do you like the hope and change we have had for the past four years?  I haven’t especially when now my tax money has to go to help pay for his fund raiser.  What an abuse of power and waste of taxpayer’s monies.

Vote Mitt Romney in November for President. 

Sunday, July 29, 2012

100 Days? 4 Years? President Mitt Romney

Where has the time gone?  Just a few years ago there a great deal of hope, change and rhetoric ushering in our new President.  We did not know much about Mr. Obama, his school records were sealed, his birthplace a mystery, his work background sketchy.  Thus he became President by a small margin of victory.
And looking at his Administration we could see very quickly many deficiencies and issues.  The Secretary of Treasury  forgot to pay his taxes, he became confused on his role in Libor.  The Secretary of State supported/not support certain governments/regimes causing confusion.  Economic stimulus programs came and went causing the National Debt to balloon by $6 trillion dollars in less than four years.  The list to me seems endless of the failures of this Administration from both an economic and social standpoint.
Are you better off than you were in 2008?  Not in my economic opinion.
We really do not need another four years of learning on the job with a socialistic twist and effort to it.  We need leadership, we need economic growth, we need stability in our economy, and we need truth in our government.
We need Mitt Romney as our President.  A vote for Romney is truly a vote for change   And we need to change our President as soon as possible.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Wednesday's Ramblings-Just More Of The Same Economic Illiteracy

It is a hot summer here in one party rule Connecticutax.  The latest sides being taken by the Governor and the Attorney General in the Nursing Home strike is economically irrational.  Since when should our elected officials be involved in this type of situation?  To buy union votes?  Or for what other reasons?

By the way how is that growing budget deficit doing here in our one party rule state?

Representative Mary Mushinskys recent taxpayer paid for reelection brochure came in the mail the other day.  I was wondering if she was serious about what she wrote about in it.  It was very funny to see no mention of all of the higher and new taxes which were shoved down her 85th District taxpayers throats over the past two years-hey what about all of those tax increases she has consistently voted upon since she has been elected to office?  We will not mention those now would we?  We instead will talk about all of the business friendly incentives she and her one party ruled passed this past session-just after this massive tax increases and anti business laws that were passed last year.  Confusing?  It is meant to be that way when one party rule is economically illiterate.  It is rhetoric and over taxation at its best.  Please vote for someone new in November-Greg Bachand for the 85th State Representative District.

By the way how is that growing budget deficit doing here in our one party rule state?

Oh and I almost forgot, I still believe in hard work, in private education, in capitalism, in success and freedom from a tyrannical government.  Just the opposite of what I can not believe I heard come from the President of the United States. Please vote for someone new in November-Mitt Romney for President.

By the way how is that growing National Debt doing here in our country?


Thursday, July 12, 2012

Connecticut's Continuing Economic Woes

And there continue to be many.  Many, many economic woes.  The latest is that our state ranks a mere 44 out of 50 states in the cost of doing business.  Business owners continue to fight on a daily basis excessive state regulations, excessive state and local taxes, a problematic unemployment compensation unlimited giving system, high workers compensation costs and a poor transportation infrastructure.  Why would you want to operate a business in Connecticut?  Couple that with a cost of living that ranks 48 out of 50 states next to only Alaska and Hawaii!  Unbelievable.
And the Murphys, Donovans, and Mushinskys of Connecticut's one party rule are running for elected office once again on their records.  Their records of high taxes, excessive spending, political nepotism and economic illiteracy.  That is some great record to run on.
Connecticut's continuing economic woes will not end until we see new people in office who know how to lead and do what is ethically right and economically right.  Enough is enough to this waste of government and business in our state.

Wednesday, July 04, 2012

236 Years of Freedom July 4, 1776 - July 4, 2012

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

— John Hancock

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton