Guest Blog
By Sean Murphy
The August 14th Republican primary left me quite
confused.
In our current environment, only half of Republican voters voted for Joe
Markley for Lt Governor.
We elected an actual outsider president who, astonishingly, makes and
keeps promises. Americans of all political backgrounds despise double
talking politicians. We can see every day how murderously the Swamp in DC
behaves towards President Trump.
Why would so many Republicans not vote for a man, Markley, who not only
led the anti-income tax Ax the Tax Revolt in 1991 but has always voted against
tax increases? All relevant polls indicate that the economy continues to
be the number one concern of voters. Here in Connecticut, ever increasing taxes
continues to rasp voters of every political persuasion; not surprising since
outgoing Governor Dannel Malloy has encumbered Connecticut with the largest and
second largest tax increases in state history.
And yet nearly half of primary voters did not support the only politician
among Republicans who has a consistent track record going back decades against
taxes.
Pause for a second and think about this.
The reason why Republican Party regulars have tuned out on the question of
ever increasing taxes and declined sufficiently to support Markley should be
obvious to Stefanowski: The Connecticut Republican Party is controlled by
people who have no desire to fix anything. These insiders simply want
control for their own benefit -- financial power, political status and ego
fulfillment. Most of the elected State Reps and Senators in Connecticut are
only looking out for themselves. An obvious and irritating proof of this
is that legislators get to count their mileage reimbursement towards their
pension. Behind the scenes, where much of Connecticut intra-party
politics occurs, the Republicans were successful in quashing
ameliorative reform.
Previous candidates with a lot of money to throw around made sure they
did. Insiders and elected officials (or their immediate families) were
given jobs and/or their businesses were hired for campaign reasons. As the
well-known WWF wrestler The Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase said in his entrance
song “Everybody’s Got A Price.”
If Republicans were interested in winning, they would lead and offer
solutions to problems.
Bob Stefanowski will win the general election if he runs a true outsider
campaign. He must repeatedly expose the corrupt system that has
economically destroyed this state. This will require him to demand
changes that negatively impact the pocketbooks of his fellow Republicans.
He will find out that he will face a lot of resistance from his supposed “own
party.”
To turn Connecticut around, there have to be massive structural changes
to business as usual. The fat cats make a lot of money off the current
system and will fight this tooth and nail (just like they have in Washington
DC). It truly is them against us.
Sean Murphy is a Connecticut political activist.
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