May 12, 2021
Democrats in the General Assembly are busy with big plans for transforming Connecticut. Though state government is rolling in federal cash, the Democrats want to tax business and the wealthy a lot more. They want to overthrow suburban zoning. They want state government to start selling medical insurance to small businesses. They would legalize and commercialize marijuana and erase thousands of criminal records. They seek a vast expansion of state-sanctioned gambling.
But that’s all in the future. What Democratic legislators don’t want to do is take responsibility for running Connecticut in
the present.
Instead once again the Democratic legislators want to leave the daily nitty-gritty to Governor Lamont, who is acting with becoming modesty as King Ned the First and has governed by executive order for more than a year on the false presumption that the virus epidemic prevents the legislature from doing its ordinary work. In fact the legislature has been convened f