A super PAC funded by the Democratic Governors Association began a TV campaign Wednesday to remind voters of Republican Bob Stefanowski’s former role as the chief executive officer at a payday loan company whose high-interest loans are illegal in Connecticut.
“What do you really know about Bob Stefanowski?” a narrator asks in the opening of a commercial by Stronger CT, a committee registered two weeks ago by the DGA. “He made millions running a payday loan company that charged working people up to 450% interest.”
Stefanowski has called on Lamont to use more of the state’s budget surplus for immediate tax relief, rather than paying down debt and setting aside money for a potential recession that could be a result of the Federal Reserve’s efforts to cool the economy with higher interest rates.