Our state’s Comptroller, the officer charged with keeping and reporting on Connecticut’s financial books, just issued her annual review of our state’s fiscal condition. Low and behold, Comptroller Nancy Wyman concluded that we closed out our ledgers on June 30 with a $449 million budget surplus.
Technically, Nancy Wyman is right; Connecticut has [...]

Democrats in Hartford conducted a fundraiser last week.  Looks like the Democrats raked in $6M dollars for their cause. The problem is the $6M is borrowed money the state does not have. The Democratically lead legislature overrides Gov. Rell’s veto.   Dan Malloy, a Democrat and the only remaining publicly financed candidate for governor, would be [...]

Soon it will be Labor Day, and millions of Americans will experience the Democrats’ stimulus program as they hit the highways plastered with stimulus signs reading — “Expect Delays.”  From California to the New York Island thousands of good Democrat supporting, union dues paying, Americans have found meaningful work digging holes and filling them back [...]

Our Probate Court, which is responsible for settling probate estates, conservatorships, guardianships and adoptions, is slated to merge with the courts in Redding, Bethel and Newtown.  On August 10, 2010, Ridgefield’s voters will have the important task of selecting the Probate Judge who will lead the Probate Court into the future.  Ridgefield’s Joe Egan is [...]

On August 10 Connecticut Republicans will once again have the opportunity to express their choices for state and federal elected office. It is not a coincidence that at a time when the stakes are so high with increasing public debt, out of control public spending and a dangerous international landscape, that we have such an [...]

By Peter Gomez (BOF Chair) and Jill Bornstein (BOF Vice Chair)
Recent headlines seemed to dismiss a 2% long range spending cap for town and school expenses as a potential myth, however, managing town budget increases to 2% or below remains a goal of many Board of Finance members given the local and regional fiscal landscape [...]

Nero had his fiddle and President Obama has his golf club and transformational social agenda. While real problems confront our country we have a President who has demonstrated an inability to adjust beyond his recreational time and policies that have proven to fail time and time again. At the center of these policies are the [...]

Criticism of political conventions in recent years is that they are coronations, or that they are completely run and dominated by the party political machine.  The Connecticut GOP State Convention held May 21 and 22 was anything but a coronation. The number of candidates for the major offices and the sheer breadth and depth of [...]

When the will of the people is ignored, there are consequences. Democrats will have no one to blame but themselves for not heeding this truth come November. Americans nationwide are outraged at the arrogance of the Democrat majority in Washington and it is now time for the people of Connecticut to take stock [...]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/nyregion/18blumenthal.html?hp
Video here:
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/05/17/nyregion/1247467839994/blumenthal-says-he-served-in-vietnam.html

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May 17, 2010
Candidate’s Words on Vietnam Service Differ From History
By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ

At a ceremony honoring veterans and senior citizens who sent presents to soldiers overseas, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut rose and spoke of an earlier time in his life.
“We have learned something important since [...]