News-Times
December 6, 2009
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 [...]
Republican lawmakers today rejected plans to cut town and city aid and instead proposed closing the projected budget deficit by cutting state spending by $466 million. They called for immediate action from Democrats whose budget was unbalanced as soon they passed it in September.The Republican proposal reduces the sales tax [...]
That didn’t take long. No sooner had Governor Rell released her latest deficit mitigation plan, designed to correct the $624 million shortfall left by the atrocity of a budget passed by legislative Democrats, did the caterwauling begin from all manner of groups reliant on the government gravy train.We hear cries [...]
From: New Fairfield Citizen-News, November 18, 2009
Stop Digging
Why It’s Time To Try A Different Kind Of Budget
Not even two months have passed since the new state budget was implemented, and yet the State of Connecticut already finds itself $624 million in the red.
To remedy this situation, [...]
If you know a hurricane barreling toward your community it’s perfectly fine to hope and pray that it veers in a different direction, but wouldn’t you take steps to protect your house just in case? That’s where we stand these days in Connecticut, where lawmakers have yet another budget deficit [...]
HARTFORD — Thirty minutes to read a hundred-page bill? Is that anyway to run government? Well, that’s what’s going on at the Capitol these days, where majority-party Democrats run the show. They continue to unveil complex, budget-related legislation late at night — hours and hours after the time they asked [...]
Grab your wallets, taxpayers of Connecticut. Super-majority Democrats are in the driver’s seat during today’s legislative session to consider bills that will implement the budget. Check out this report from the Connecticut Post, which tells readers that Town Aid Road funding, a vital piece to municipal budgets throughout the [...]
The U.S. Congress is notoriously dysfunctional when it comes to writing legislation. All too frequently, bills are written by a small number of members in the dead of night, the text running hundreds if not thousands of pages long. The bill is then summarily called for [...]
The state budget that was recently passed into law was a 702-page monstrosity of a bill, dropped in the laps of legislators just hours before the Democratic Majority in Hartford voted overwhelmingly to pass it. Those 702 pages contained a litany of provisions hazardous to Connecticut’s [...]
HARTFORD — Now isn’t the time. That was the message today from Republicans concerned about the abilities of towns and cities to pay for unfunded mandates handed down by the state. Rep. Larry Cafero, leader of the House Republicans, was backed by Reps. Rosa Rebimbas, Arthur [...]
There are transcendent moments in history that define a generation – for many, it was the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 or the day World War II ended where people rejoiced at the end of long, and devastating war and cities celebrated. For others, it was that November day [...]
From: The News-Times, September 6, 2009
As Connecticut’s budget impasse dragged throughout the summer, compromise became the word of the day. The governor, staring down the barrel of a tax-hungry Democratic supermajority, backed off previous no-tax-increase pledges and made a modest offer to raise taxes. In [...]
Rep. Tony Hwang attended a recent meeting of the Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter where he spoke to a group of young people planning for a Memory Walk, the nation’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research.
Hwang, who represents Fairfield and [...]
HARTFORD — It’s time for Democrats to “suck it up.” That was the message from House Minority Leader Larry Cafero today in the wake of Gov. M. Jodi Rell issuing yet another budget plan. Rell’s latest proposal would increase taxes on upper-income earners, eliminate the estate tax and, most important, [...]
WALLINGFORD — One by one, a half-dozen or so employers sitting around a table here today looked toward a bank of television news cameras and delivered a sobering message that liberal legislators in Hartford just don’t seem to get: More taxes on businesses will [...]
DANBURY — Reps. Jan Giegler, David Scribner, and Mary Ann Carson, as well as Senators Mike McLachlan and Toni Boucher, hosted House Republican Leader Larry Cafero and Senate Republican Leader John McKinney to discuss the impact of tax increases proposed by Democrats in this year’s budget negotiations. [...]
WINSTED — What will another tax on businesses do to manufacturers in this community and others throughout the state? One thing is for certain: It won’t help them create jobs for thousands of unemployed people in Connecticut. That was the message from business leaders here at Alcoa Howmet this afternoon, [...]
In an effort to fuel stalled budget negotiations, House and Senate Republicans today delivered their third No Tax Increase budget to solve the state’s fiscal crisis through governmental consolidations and spending cuts, but does not cut aid to towns and cities.Republicans, using revised budget revenue estimates [...]
WOODBRIDGE — Conducting business in the state of Connecticut is difficult, and one executive here has a message for lawmakers: don’t make it any harder. Several House Republicans today toured Air Handling Systems, founded and owned by the Scott family. The contingent included Rep. Larry Cafero, leader of the House [...]
HARTFORD — House Republican Leader Larry Cafero joined the legislature’s Appropriations Committee today and delivered this simple message: There’s a better way. Committee members debated freshly authored budget information from majority Democrats, who have proposed dunking Connecticut residents in the biggest pot of tax increases the state has seen. Cafero, [...]
Quinnipiac University released a new poll today and the results shouldn’t surprise anyone other than Democrats here at the Capitol. Jobs, or the lack thereof, was the top issue among respondents who told pollsters the ailing economy is the most critical issue Connecticut faces. So what, exactly, have legislative Democrats done [...]
HARTFORD — Democrats in the House today voted to override Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s veto on An Act Concerning the Standard Wage for Certain Connecticut Workers. The vote tally was 106-35, with House Republicans on the same side as Connecticut’s governor. Democrats cheered afterward, quieted only by the gavel of [...]
House Republicans will be heading back to the Capitol on Monday, July 20th. The Democrat Majority has called a “veto session”, where members of the General Assembly convene to re-consider several bills passed by the Legislature but vetoed by Governor Rell. Some of the bills that may be considered are:
[...]HARTFORD — Tight budgeting by the House Republicans amid the ongoing fiscal crisis has allowed the Republican caucus to return more than $117,000 to the state. In addition, House Republicans took 33 unpaid furlough days that amounted to another $8,380 savings to the state. The return of the money was [...]
HARTFORD — With reverberations from a congratulatory high-five still fresh in the chamber, House Democrats are patting themselves on the back again — this time through a draft release of their 76-page end of session report.
Yes, that’s right: 76 pages. What did they do, you ask? If you can stomach [...]
HARTFORD — House Democrats had their chance Wednesday but they passed on it. They had an opportunity to give residents a break, to give businesses a little breathing room. Instead, they took the easy way out — for them, at least. They rejected a balanced budget proposal introduced by House [...]
HARTFORD — To To the surprise of few people around the Capitol, and state for that matter, the legislature’s majority party lacked the fortitude to push through their tax-heavy budget proposal today and gave up on adopting a two-year budget by Wednesday’s end-of-session deadline.
For months [...]
HARTFORD–Rep. Larry Cafero believes the legislature can reach the goal he and his Republican colleagues have talked about for weeks: Adopting a budget that doesn’t increase taxes on residents and business when they just can’t afford it.
Cafero, leader of the legislature’s House Republican caucus, was joined by Gov. M. Jodi [...]
HARTFORD — Democrats in the state’s House of Representatives tonight pushed through a proposal that would allow Election Day registration, a move Republicans argued would punch holes in the fairness of seeking elected office in Connecticut. Heaping more cost mandates on cities and towns is a concern, but more worrisome [...]
As the clock winds down to the final two weeks of the legislative session, the Democratic majority continues to waste time debating anything and everything but the largest issue facing the state… the budget deficit.
In this vignet, Rep. Steve Fontana (D-North Haven) makes a colorful analogy invoking images of the animals of [...]
HARTFORD — House Republican Leader Larry Cafero today told a large group of mayors and first selectmen what they already knew: the General Assembly has done very little, if anything, to remedy Connecticut’s fiscal woes and give towns an idea of how much state aid they’ll receive. Cafero attended Town [...]
Check out the latest in political playtime from super-majority Democrats. This time, it was at the expense of your voting rights. The House of Representatives earlier this week took up National Popular Vote, and after a bit of debate the Democrat-pushed proposal failed by a single vote. But then something [...]
On the fourth anniversary of the execution of serial killer Michael Ross House Republican Leader state Rep. Lawrence F. Cafero Jr of Norwalk today urged lawmakers to streamline the death penalty process as the Chief State’s Attorney has asked, and not to abolish capital punishment.
Cafero said death penalty opponents have [...]
Rep. Michael Lawlor (D-East Haven) evidently would not report every felony or sexual assault he sees. Coming from an attorney, a co-chariman of the legislature’s Judiciary Committee, and a representative sworn to support the constitutions of the United States and the state of Connecticut, that’s comforting.
So what is Rep. Lawlor’s [...]
HARTFORD — House and Senate Democrats today participated in a dog-and-pony show promoting public financing for campaigns even though the state, and nation, are in tough financial shape. In other words, they want to use your money to keep their seats. It’s a sour tune coming from state legislators at [...]
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