[BobNJ1960]

Originally Posted by JayCT

So you think we should just blindly trust a party that is proposing to put us billions further into debt with no way to pay for it?

Read precisely what I wrote.

Until they have complete control, in Ct you have no control.

Our gov, when in the sole chamber where his/her party controls, is powerless.

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by BobNJ1960

Read precisely what I wrote.

Until they have complete control, in Ct you have no control.

Our gov, when in the sole chamber where his/her party controls, is powerless.

To be in power you have to nominate candidates that are electable. The Connecticut Republicans have failed to do that. So they rightly remain powerless. Jay

[kidyankee764]

Originally Posted by JayCT

Where is Connecticut Republicans plan? Where was their budget plan this past session? They had none. Rather they just said no to the Democrats with no alternative.

Look at their plan for transportation funding. It calls for borrowing more money and putting our state deeper in debt. It’s a 30 year plan with no way to pay for it. How does that make fiscal sense? Yeah, they are great. Jay

I guess I’ll say it again - to ignore the Republicans because they haven’t outlined a “plan” that’s to individual voter satisfaction is the right of any voter - but don’t expect anything to change.

Emphasis on “don’t expect anything to change”.

Originally Posted by JayCT

To be in power you have to nominate candidates that are electable. The Connecticut Republicans have failed to do that. So they rightly remain powerless. Jay

And the Democrats “rightly” remain in power. How’s that working out?

[GoHuskies]

Originally Posted by BobNJ1960

Read precisely what I wrote.

Until they have complete control, in Ct you have no control.

Our gov, when in the sole chamber where his/her party controls, is powerless.

This reads exactly like the joke the conservatives (incorrectly mind you) threw at Pelosi, the whole we need to pass the bill to know what's in it.

[CTartist]

Originally Posted by JayCT

To be in power you have to nominate candidates that are electable. The Connecticut Republicans have failed to do that. So they rightly remain powerless. Jay

I keep telling my Republican friends the same thing. They need to nominate more moderates so they can get more politicians up in Hartford. But it falls on deaf ears.

[kidyankee764]

Originally Posted by CTartist

I keep telling my Republican friends the same thing. They need to nominate more moderates so they can get more politicians up in Hartford. But it falls on deaf ears.

It’s falling on deaf ears because Foley and Stefanowski are not even close to extreme right Republicans.

[beerbeer]

Originally Posted by CTartist

I keep telling my Republican friends the same thing. They need to nominate more moderates so they can get more politicians up in Hartford. But it falls on deaf ears.

RHINOs will not solve the problems. The state needs conservative Republicans to get out of the current mess, another Jodie Rell will solve nothing. Somebody has to come in and take an axe to the mountain of harmful anti-business regulations, cut taxes (or at least freeze them), cut back the number of bureaucrats in Hartford and tame the public sector unions.

This week the Hartford business Journal has an issue dedicated to the crazy financial situation in Hartford. https://www.hartfordbusiness.com/art...-tax-structure It is Hartford specific, not focused on the larger state problems. But it is illustrative.

But the biggest pain point was property taxes. Though D’Aprile didn’t own D&D’s old Hartford quarters at 276 Franklin Ave. — his father actually does — he was still responsible for paying real estate and personal property taxes. At its peak, he owed $54,000 a year to the city — a sum that became too much to bear and led him to buy a smaller property less than four miles away in Wethersfield, where he’d eventually relocate his entire business and 38 employees."

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by kidyankee764

It’s falling on deaf ears because Foley and Stefanowski are not even close to extreme right Republicans.

For Connecticut, they are. A southern style conservative would not even get out of the box here. Jay

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by beerbeer

RHINOs will not solve the problems. The state needs conservative Republicans to get out of the current mess, another Jodie Rell will solve nothing. Somebody has to come in and take an axe to the mountain of harmful anti-business regulations, cut taxes (or at least freeze them), cut back the number of bureaucrats in Hartford and tame the public sector unions.

This week the Hartford business Journal has an issue dedicated to the crazy financial situation in Hartford. https://www.hartfordbusiness.com/art...-tax-structure It is Hartford specific, not focused on the larger state problems. But it is illustrative.

But the biggest pain point was property taxes. Though D’Aprile didn’t own D&D’s old Hartford quarters at 276 Franklin Ave. — his father actually does — he was still responsible for paying real estate and personal property taxes. At its peak, he owed $54,000 a year to the city — a sum that became too much to bear and led him to buy a smaller property less than four miles away in Wethersfield, where he’d eventually relocate his entire business and 38 employees."

What we need is a Charlie Baker type Republican, not a Rell or another corrupt Governor like Rowland. Or the extremes of Stefanowski and Markley.

Sorry but D&D Market moving was more due to a changing neighborhood. I know a couple of different people who are friends with the owners and they are familar with what happened. It is an Italian market but its core customers moved further and further south and out of the city (mostly Wethersfield and Rocky Hill). Even 35 years ago, it was not located in the core of the Italian South End. The move sadly was inevitable. They could not locate in Hartford because there was not a space available to meet their needs. They also had competition from other stores so why should people travel an extra couple of miles when they could get the same or similar things closer to home and at the same price. They lost their regular shoppers that did virtually all their shopping there because of this which is why they had to become a smaller specialty market. Jay

[GoHuskies]

Originally Posted by beerbeer

RHINOs will not solve the problems. The state needs conservative Republicans to get out of the current mess, another Jodie Rell will solve nothing. Somebody has to come in and take an axe to the mountain of harmful anti-business regulations, cut taxes (or at least freeze them), cut back the number of bureaucrats in Hartford and tame the public sector unions.

This week the Hartford business Journal has an issue dedicated to the crazy financial situation in Hartford. https://www.hartfordbusiness.com/art...-tax-structure It is Hartford specific, not focused on the larger state problems. But it is illustrative.

But the biggest pain point was property taxes. Though D’Aprile didn’t own D&D’s old Hartford quarters at 276 Franklin Ave. — his father actually does — he was still responsible for paying real estate and personal property taxes. At its peak, he owed $54,000 a year to the city — a sum that became too much to bear and led him to buy a smaller property less than four miles away in Wethersfield, where he’d eventually relocate his entire business and 38 employees."

A fiscal conservative will have a tough election road in Connecticut if said candidate is also a social conservative.