By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut’s system of “public” financing of election campaigns, the Citizens Election Program, established in 2005 under Gov. Jodi Rell, still sounds good in principle. Candidates for state office who restrict themselves to small donations and raise a threshold amount qualify for fairly substantial grants of campaign money from state government. Connecticut DemocratsContinue reading “Public campaign financing has yet to improve the state”
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Connecticut Democrats fear police at the polls more than lawbreakers
By CHRIS POWELL Given Connecticut’s worsening social disintegration, most people are probably glad to see police officers patrolling on foot or in cruisers. Residents of cities, where crime is worst, often ask for more police visibility. Despite CEA’s backing Lamont, many teachers may pick Elliott Primary campaign shows Lamont frantically pandering to leftists Can easternContinue reading “Connecticut Democrats fear police at the polls more than lawbreakers”
Despite CEA’s backing Lamont, many teachers may pick Elliott
By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut’s largest teacher union, the Connecticut Education Association, has endorsed Governor Lamont for renomination in the Democratic primary and re-election in November. “Governor Lamont’s partnership with the education community has strengthened our schools and our profession,” CEA President Kate Dias says. Primary campaign shows Lamont frantically pandering to leftists Can eastern ConnecticutContinue reading “Despite CEA’s backing Lamont, many teachers may pick Elliott”
Primary campaign shows Lamont frantically pandering to leftists
By CHRIS POWELL In the demagoguery festival that is the Democratic primary for governor, Governor Lamont shouts, “ICE isn’t getting our voter rolls!” Can eastern Connecticut get ready in time for its future? Will state ever reduce poverty or just keep manufacturing it? Governor Lamont ignores more misconduct by state police But the secretary ofContinue reading “Primary campaign shows Lamont frantically pandering to leftists”
Can eastern Connecticut get ready in time for its future?
By CHRIS POWELL Fifty-six years ago Alfred M. Bingham of Salem, an elderly liberal lawyer and author with a national reputation whose father had been a U.S. senator from Connecticut in the 1920s, sought the Democratic nomination for Congress from eastern Connecticut. Bingham didn’t get the nomination but unlike many candidates he tried to thinkContinue reading “Can eastern Connecticut get ready in time for its future?”
Will state ever reduce poverty or just keep manufacturing it?
By CHRIS POWELL Will the day ever come in Connecticut when those in authority notice that despite all their chest thumping, posturing, sanctimony, and spending, some very big undertakings of government aren’t working? That is, failing to accomplish their nominal objectives while supporting a bureaucracy with great salaries, benefits, and pensions. Voter registration case isContinue reading “Will state ever reduce poverty or just keep manufacturing it?”
Governor Lamont ignores more misconduct by state police
By CHRIS POWELL Caught up in his primary campaign for renomination by the Democrats, maybe Governor Lamont and his publicists are too busy to notice and respond to news reports about improprieties in state government. Or maybe they’re just not inclined to call more attention to them, even by correcting them. Voter registration case isContinue reading “Governor Lamont ignores more misconduct by state police”
Voter registration case is more than an anomaly
By CHRIS POWELL Maybe the illegal immigrant recently hailed as a martyr by Connecticut Democrats, West Hartford businessman Sead “Seyo” Cecunjanin, made an innocent mistake in 2018 when, in a transaction at the state Motor Vehicles Department, he applied to register to vote, falsely affirmed that he is a U.S. citizen, and was improperly addedContinue reading “Voter registration case is more than an anomaly”
Child neglect is vast in Connecticut and DCF may not be so bad
By CHRIS POWELL Beating up on Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families is easy and politically satisfying. Child neglect and abuse are rampant and worsening in the state and are beginning to overwhelm the agency’s social workers again, if not yet quite as much as the staff was overwhelmed when it was under federal courtContinue reading “Child neglect is vast in Connecticut and DCF may not be so bad”
Legislators try blackmailing Yale to save discriminatory admissions
By CHRIS POWELL It shouldn’t be shocking that the U.S. Justice Department is investigating Yale University in New Haven for illegal racial discrimination in its admissions practices. Higher education long has been discriminating that way and helped concoct a euphemism for it — “affirmative action” — a euphemism that fortunately no longer intimidates the TrumpContinue reading “Legislators try blackmailing Yale to save discriminatory admissions”
