[BobNJ1960]

Originally Posted by Mike 75

I'm amazed that Zeldin in NY is within striking distance of Hochul while Stefanowski is behind by double digits. Same with Levy, although it looks like Logan may pull one out against Hayes. But man did the CT GOP blow a golden opportunity in a red wave year. Just shows that candidates matter, and merely nominating rich people with no political experience is not a successful strategy.

Ct is a one party state. NY is not, as outside of the city, they will flip between the two major parties.

Zeldin will win.

[RowingFiend]

Originally Posted by WestRiverTraveler

Nothing identifies someone as an idiot like calling neoliberal corporate Democrats communists. Try not to use words that you don’t understand.

Blumenthal was literally videotaped at a meeting of the Communist Party. I don’t care if you believe it or not. Fortunately I live with sane people in Florida. At least you didn’t deny he’s a liar.

[Chazbme99]

Lamont is a weak and pathetic leader. He had total power during the pandemic and did nothing to help Connecticut. Ned did help his wife and her investments in testing. Funny how the media never really talks much about this behavior. His decision to buckle to the teacher unions and close the schools hurt kids tremendously. The crazy mask mandates did nothing to stop the spread of covid. Kids have suffered bigtime by forced masking and no in person schooling. Other states that did not have these crazy mandates did the same in not better than us. It was all for control and trying to micromanage daily lives. Lamont also forced covid patients into nursing homes and did not listen to families or doctors. It was always so puzzling that when covid started he did nothing to stop or test commuters that came back from NYC on the trains everyday. He was too busy shutting down restaurants and putting other businesses in a bad spot with these lockdowns. It did not work so why is he taking credit like he was a savior and some great leader.
He went step for step with Cuomo and NY. The NY, NJ, CT, RI gang all tried to take over citizens lives due to covid.
Time for change. Bob Stefanowski is the option we have now. He is a Republican and the only shot we have at change this year. I think he knows what needs to be done. We need to get someone in office to finally clean up the mess in Hartford. 4 more years of Lamont will really hurt this state.

[WestRiverTraveler]

Originally Posted by RowingFiend

Blumenthal was literally videotaped at a meeting of the Communist Party. I don’t care if you believe it or not. Fortunately I live with sane people in Florida. At least you didn’t deny he’s a liar.

He went to an awards dinner about community activism with that organization. He thought it was just a labor event. Bad optics, but I've seen nothing in his years of office that make me think he's planning on seizing the means of production for workers or doing massive wealth redistribution. On the other hand, CPAC hosted Victor Orban and had him speak. He got a great reception, too. So by your logic, anybody associated with CPAC is a fascist.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-w...-he-had-known/

“My understanding was that this ceremony was strictly a labor event,” Blumenthal told the outlet Friday. “If I had known the details, I wouldn’t have gone. … Let me just say very emphatically, I’m a Democrat and a strong believer in American capitalism. I have been consistently a Democrat and a strong supporter and believer in American capitalism.”

[MikefromCT]

Originally Posted by RowingFiend

Blumenthal was literally videotaped at a meeting of the Communist Party. I don’t care if you believe it or not. Fortunately I live with sane people in Florida. At least you didn’t deny he’s a liar.

LOL Sane people, like everyone who gets arrested in the show "Cops", every entitled Karen or Kyle who starts an altercation on an airplane, and the teachers who get caught sexually accosting their students. Just regular, everyday people. Model citizens.

[Mike 75]

Originally Posted by BobNJ1960

Ct is a one party state. NY is not, as outside of the city, they will flip between the two major parties.

Zeldin will win.

I hope he does. Whether he's able to get anything done is another story but I wish him the best if he wins.

NY has had one party rule in Albany for awhile now, just like CT. Last time NY went for a GOP presidential candidate - 1984. So yeah it's pretty blue. And I'd argue that Albany is to the left of Hartford in governing, regulations, taxes etc.

If Logan wins, look to him to be the new face of the CT GOP (god knows they need it). He's got that happy warrior vibe a la Reagan IMO.

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by Chazbme99

Lamont is a weak and pathetic leader. He had total power during the pandemic and did nothing to help Connecticut. Ned did help his wife and her investments in testing. Funny how the media never really talks much about this behavior. His decision to buckle to the teacher unions and close the schools hurt kids tremendously. The crazy mask mandates did nothing to stop the spread of covid. Kids have suffered bigtime by forced masking and no in person schooling. Other states that did not have these crazy mandates did the same in not better than us. It was all for control and trying to micromanage daily lives. Lamont also forced covid patients into nursing homes and did not listen to families or doctors. It was always so puzzling that when covid started he did nothing to stop or test commuters that came back from NYC on the trains everyday. He was too busy shutting down restaurants and putting other businesses in a bad spot with these lockdowns. It did not work so why is he taking credit like he was a savior and some great leader.
He went step for step with Cuomo and NY. The NY, NJ, CT, RI gang all tried to take over citizens lives due to covid.
Time for change. Bob Stefanowski is the option we have now. He is a Republican and the only shot we have at change this year. I think he knows what needs to be done. We need to get someone in office to finally clean up the mess in Hartford. 4 more years of Lamont will really hurt this state.

I completely disagree with you. Lamont is definitely NOT weak. You confuse manners, thoughtfulness and respectfulness with weakness. Just because he isn’t a loud mouth narcissistic dictator like certain Republican leaders, does not mean he is weak. That’s actually a sign of good leadership because instead of mindless rants, a good leader listens to others and then forms an opinion.

Annie Lamont’s connections to Sema4, a company that received state contracts was vetted a long time ago and found to not be a conflict of interest or unethical. She has no direct ties to it. The only ones making a big deal of it is the opposition who are relying on voter ignorance to question it.

You also seem to forget that Connecticut was one of the first states to have Covid infections and the White House lied to for weeks about the severity of it. Then once the President admitted the virus was very serious there was months of mixed messages and a lack of information and direction from experts instead of a clueless President, more interested in political optics than safety and well being of Americans. It was very ineptly handled on the national level and you expect a Governor of a small state to know how best to handle it? Remember too that thousands were getting sick and dying so it’s pretty ridiculous to say it was handled badly. Even in hindsight, it was handled well but of course highly biased who lack any objectivity and have a questionable agenda to push will say otherwise.

As for Bob Stefanowski, he has yet to give a good reason to vote for him. He talks about cutting taxes to pander to voters but has failed to say how those cuts would be sustainable without massive cuts in aid to communities and staff reductions. He hasn’t said how we can continue to address our states pension obligations either. To me that is a serious problem that can’t be ignored. Jay

[SteveM85]

Originally Posted by Chazbme99

He went step for step with Cuomo and NY. The NY, NJ, CT, RI gang all tried to take over citizens lives due to covid.

It's funny to look back on the shenanigans these guys concocted in the Covid heyday. I don't know about central CT but here in southern FFCounty much of the masking went largely ignored even though everyone still loves and adores Lamont to no end. Remember the silly walk into restaurant with mask but you can take off when sat down? to this day that remains one of the most idiotic and insane regulations ever imposed on citizens. People ignored and no one checked or enforced, unlike NY where Covid henchmen and zoomer watchdogs with smartphone videos would assault you.
I thought Lamont was more lax on Covid than his buddies in the Almighty Holy Order Divinity of Democrat Governors, but he did support waving paychecks in hard working citizens faces if they didn't get shots. I thought that was one of the most despicable acts enforced by these people. I told work if they ever mandated Pfizer Profit Booster shots, they could start the clock on my two week notice for resignation the minute they send the email. They could just announce it in the same email. If they would want me to leave earlier I would happily oblige. They never did mandate it.
What's Lamont leading by now? triple digits?

[JayCT]

Please return to the topic of the thread and forum which is the election in Connecticut. JayCT, Moderator

[mdovell]

I still see Lamont winning even though I'll go 3rd party. Some of the other races though are pretty close. I saw the Blumental debate and Levy was awful. She went way off course and it looked like there was something wrong with her.

I'd add that not everyone has a party line and you can't assume just because someone is for others or against that it's everything. There was just a spat I saw on social media on reproductive rights. Republican is being accused of being prolife (he isn't and has said isn't). But opponent sent out a flier that he is and it isn't even a local issue so bother bringing this up.

Coventry has some town council members bringing up CRT which isn't even taught in schools. I know the economy is weird right now but that doesn't mean you bring up non issues.

On a side note are there any local ballot issues this year? I just see the state on on early voting. Seems pretty quiet