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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Voters are expressing considerable concern regarding the proposed budgets for the Town of Ridgefield as well as the Board of Education. In its continuing efforts to reach out to Ridgefielders to understand their needs and concerns, the Ridgefield Republican Town Committee has conducted a poll on these two budgets. When asked if they will vote [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Dear Friends and Neighbors,
Election day is shortly upon us, please remember to vote on November 3rd for me to represent you on the Board of Finance.  Speak with your friends and neighbors, let  them know that I will represent all of Ridgefield fairly on the Board of Finance.
I am running [...]