By CHRIS POWELL Maybe Hamden state Rep. Josh Elliott, challenging Governor Lamont’s renomination in the Democratic primary August 11, has their party perfectly figured out. Elliott speaks almost entirely of enlarging government, increasing its dependents, taxing and spending more, and giving government more power over the economy and society generally. Poll finds strong undercurrent ofContinue reading “Can Elliott make waste and fraud an issue in primary for governor?”
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Poll finds strong undercurrent of dissatisfaction with Lamont
By CHRIS POWELL Most political observers believe that Governor Lamont will win re-election easily, if the leftist faction of the Democratic Party doesn’t dump him in the primary for renomination in favor of Hamden state Rep. Josh Elliott. Will Connecticut have a campaign or just Lamont’s commercials? Looks like Democrats oppose any immigration enforcement Prisons,Continue reading “Poll finds strong undercurrent of dissatisfaction with Lamont”
Will Connecticut have a campaign or just Lamont’s commercials?
By CHRIS POWELL Governor Lamont may have the campaign for governor all to himself. His vast wealth is being deployed again and is stuffing Connecticut’s airwaves and internet channels with commercials and deluging journalist e-mailboxes with press releases. Looks like Democrats oppose any immigration enforcement Prisons, Attorney General Tong suppressed inmate death video A stateContinue reading “Will Connecticut have a campaign or just Lamont’s commercials?”
Looks like Democrats oppose any immigration enforcement
By CHRIS POWELL Democrats in Connecticut are always looking for opportunities to deplore the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. But this week they jumped on what looked like an opportunity before determining what it was really about. They might have been embarrassed if journalists followed up about it. Prisons, Attorney General Tong suppressed inmateContinue reading “Looks like Democrats oppose any immigration enforcement”
Prisons, Attorney General Tong suppressed inmate death video
By CHRIS POWELL Eight years after a mentally ill inmate was beaten to death by guards at the state prison in Newtown, last week a Superior Court judge ordered the public release of the video taken of the incident by the body cameras the guards wore. A state tax credit for renters won’t ease housingContinue reading “Prisons, Attorney General Tong suppressed inmate death video”
A state tax credit for renters won’t ease Connecticut’s housing shortage
By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut is not likely to get any time soon the 120,000 additional housing units the state is said to need desperately to bring prices down, but the state’s political left has a terrible idea that may raise housing costs instead. It would have state government spend as much as $575 million each yearContinue reading “A state tax credit for renters won’t ease Connecticut’s housing shortage”
Fix Connecticut’s big problems before trying to seize utilities
By CHRIS POWELL In principle there’s nothing wrong with government ownership of electricity, water, and gas delivery utilities, since they are natural monopolies. People building a state or country from scratch might do best to start that way — if they have the necessary capital. Governor goes retrograde with Medicaid penalty tax Many TV andContinue reading “Fix Connecticut’s big problems before trying to seize utilities”
Governor goes retrograde with Medicaid penalty tax
By CHRIS POWELL For many years a strong current of thought within the Democratic Party and liberalism has argued for breaking the connection between employment and medical insurance. Why, it is asked, should people be stuck in jobs they may not like just because those jobs are their most practical way of getting vital coverage?Continue reading “Governor goes retrograde with Medicaid penalty tax”
Many TV and radio ads make Connecticut look terrible
By CHRIS POWELL Trends in television and radio advertising in Connecticut give a distressing impression of the state. No one can watch TV or listen to radio for an hour without hearing from one tax delinquency resolution agency or another. Their clients claim to have evaded huge amounts of federal taxes only to have hadContinue reading “Many TV and radio ads make Connecticut look terrible”
State’s anti-ICE law is a fraud, and so is ‘believe all women’
By CHRIS POWELL The most recent politically correct charade of Connecticut’s nullifiers — including Governor Lamont, Attorney General William Tong, and the Democratic majority in the General Assembly — has been quickly exposed. It’s the new state law, enacted with the governor’s signature a month ago, purporting to prohibit federal immigration agents from wearing masksContinue reading “State’s anti-ICE law is a fraud, and so is ‘believe all women’”
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