HARTFORD — Several Republican legislators partnered with The Salvation Army this holiday season to help residents in need of meals, clothing and toys for children. Lawmakers rang collection bells outside of Walmart department stores throughout the state. Rep. Themis Klarides, for example, raised $160 while volunteering in Derby. Other participants were Reps. Rosa Rebimbas and [...]
We’d like to tell you that the legislature solved the state’s $466 million budget deficit today, or even attempted to tackle this crucial issue. Really, we would. But that just isn’t the case, and forgive us if reading this gives you a nasty case of Deja Vu: Super-majority Democrats had an opportunity today to work [...]
Every year, my colleagues in the General Assembly descend upon the Capitol with lofty ideas and high minded rhetoric about how to change the world. Unfortunately, the pursuit of making Connecticut a better place too often leads lawmakers to over-legislate and pass one-size-fits-all mandates that are handed down to municipalities without any regard to what [...]
Republican lawmakers today rejected plans to cut town and city aid and instead proposed closing the projected budget deficit by cutting state spending by $466 million. They called for immediate action from Democrats whose budget was unbalanced as soon they passed it in September.
That didn’t take long. No sooner had Governor Rell released her latest deficit mitigation plan, designed to correct the $624 million shortfall left by the atrocity of a budget passed by legislative Democrats, did the caterwauling begin from all manner of groups reliant on the government gravy train.
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