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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Residents of Ridgefield are paying increasing attention to how their tax dollars are being spent. And this Monday, May 3 at the Annual Town Meeting to be held at the Ridgefield Playhouse at 7:30pm, we will have the opportunity to better inform ourselves, ask questions and make our voices heard regarding proposed capital items under [...]

GOP Viewpoint:
“Men are from Mars, women are from Venus”.  Viva la difference! Now if you have followed recent Gubernatorial Candidate Forums held for Republicans in Ridgefield and for Democrats in New Haven, you might shout out ”Republicans are from Earth” and Democrats are from, well pick any another planet. Viva la difference!
In the last GOP [...]

Common-Sense Commitment to Connecticut
The recent victory by the people of Massachusetts has become a shining example that Americans have had enough of the brazen arrogance of the Washington elite.  The silence of the majority has finally been broken and they have been heard.
With this lesson from our neighbors to [...]

Rarely has Connecticut’s legislature convened as many times as it has this year just to discuss the state budget. Here’s what happened at our eighth budget session: The legislators who control 70 percent of the vote, the budget process, and the legislative agenda walked into the State Capitol, opened the session, banged the gavel, [...]

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 actually [...]