October 29, 2018

       My wife and I moved to Connecticut thirty years ago. The economy was booming and businesses were hiring. We loved living in Fairfield. Our two daughters received excellent educations in the public schools. My friends, my neighbors, my wife and I looked forward to having our children settle in Connecticut as we became grandparents.

      But it didn’t happen. Our children are gone. To visit our grandchildren, we sit in New York and Boston traffic. We wait at LaGuardia and Kennedy to catch flights to Florida, California and Colorado.

       How did this happen? How did a state that led the country in GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth from 1976 until 1991 end up with the third worse business climate in the country? How did we actually lose population in the past several years? Why did General Electric, Aetna and multiple small businesses leave for greener pastures? And why don’t our children want to live here?

       The answer is that an incompetent political class has used the hard-working Connecticut taxpayer as a piggy bank for socialist schemes and fat pensions for bureaucrats while destroying the business climate. It began when Lowell Weicker became Governor by misleading the voters in the early 1990s and enacting a state income tax. And it culminated in the past eight years when Dan Malloy promised no tax increases on his way Governor’s mansion, and reneged on this promise not once; but twice.

       There is still a chance to return Connecticut to its former glory; but we will need an outsider to do it. That man is Republican Bob Stefanowski. His main opponent is Democrat Ned Lamont, a Greenwich plutocrat who is the great grandson of J.P. Morgan’s right hand man. He blew over $26,000,000 of his personal wealth trying to become our Senator. He will probably blow more trying to become our Governor.

       The Democrats gave Lamont a cakewalk to the nomination (he won the primary by over 80%) because he promised the public sector unions and education bureaucrats lavish pensions and health benefits. He promised to allow some of our municipal employees to continue to pad their pensions by working overtime in their final year. Many of these people will retire in their mid-forties with six-figure pensions and Cadillac health insurance. But what many voters don’t realize is that these pensions have annual cost-of-living increases. As many of these people will live into their eighties and nineties, their pensions will exceed $300,000 a year! Where will this money come from?

       It will come from your paying massive tax increases and tolls. Your property taxes will skyrocket while your housing values continue to plummet. And do not believe Ned Lamont when he says he is only going to place tolls on trucks driving through the state. Once the toll apparatus is constructed, all Ned Lamont has to do is flip a switch to make the rest of us pay too. And furthermore, wait until these trucks start driving into your towns and destroying your local roads to avoid the tolls. You will be paying even more. Ned Lamont is a clone of Dan Malloy.

       Stefanowski plans to repeal the estate tax and the corporate taxes that are driving our productive citizens and businesses out of the state. He will stand up to the public sector unions. Now I know some of you reading this want to vote against Stefanowski because you don’t like Donald Trump. Yet, the liberal states of Maryland, Massachusetts and Vermont (Yes. Bernie Sanders’ home state) are poised to elect Republican governors. Why can’t Connecticut? Moderate voters in those states realize that allowing the Democrats to pillage their state just to get back at Donald Trump is like cutting off your nose to spite you face.

       So on Tuesday, November 6th, please vote for Bob Stefanowski. Trust me; it isn’t pleasant sitting in traffic for hours on the Mass Pike. And do you really want to live in Florida? Your clothes are drenched with sweat by 10 AM. Alligators gobble up your pets and attack you if your tee shot lands near a water hazard. Mosquitoes the size of vultures suck out your blood. Pythons join you in the swimming pool. And as one of my patients said, “Every doctor down there wants to become a millionaire in one year.”

       I have lived all over the country – Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New York City and Texas. And I can tell you that Connecticut is where it’s at. Do yourself and your family a favor. Do not allow Ned Lamont to put another nail in the coffin of our beautiful state.

October 7, 2018

      The ugly battle is over. By a slim margin and largely along Party lines, Brett Kavanaugh has replaced the moderate Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, theoretically solidifying a 5-4 conservative majority. Here are the salient points from this landmark battle.

      The Rule of Law will replace The Rule of Man. For the past decades, controversial public policy decisions were imposed on the electorate by power hungry judges who preferred to make up the law rather than to interpret it. By judicial fiat, our Supreme Court removed God from public schools, allowed pornography to proliferate, legalized abortion and gay marriage and forced taxpayers to pay for the education and health care of illegal immigrants. Reasonable people can disagree on these issues, but the Supreme Court removed the right of the American people to govern themselves. Had Hillary Clinton won the election, she would have appointed judges who overturned the Second Amendment, made illegal aliens citizens, gerrymandered districts to the Democrat’s advantage and discarded the Electoral College. Now liberals will have to convince the voters of the wisdom of these ideas, which is why they are livid.

      President Trump’s ruthless no-holds-barred style has been vindicated. Establishment Republicans from the Bush-Romney Marquis of Queensbury School of Politics have been relegated to Siberia. These people have been preaching “collegiality” and “bipartisanship” and were “appalled” at Trump’s behavior. But when it appeared that Kavanaugh had secured the votes to become a Supreme Court justice, the Democrats showed their true colors. They accused Kavanaugh of attempted rape, exposing himself while drunk, and organizing and participating in gang rapes while he was a teenager. Republican Senators were harassed in restaurants and received death threats from liberal thugs. Hollywood, night time comedians, Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, the American Bar Association, the ACLU and the media piled on. The liberal mob expected Kavanaugh to fold or quietly and calmly deny these allegations. But in one day, Kavanaugh morphed from a Bush Republican to Trump Republican, vociferously denying these charges and legally dissecting them. And he won the day.

      Republicans will probably hold the House and Senate. The failure of the Democrats to stop Kavanaugh will depress their base. Republicans, on the other hand, have seen the belly of the beast – mob rule, violence and guilt simply by unproven allegation. The conventional wisdom is that outraged women from the #MeToo movement will come in out droves against the entitled white male frat boy patriarchy that Kavanaugh represents. Perhaps. But women also have husbands and sons. Could an unsubstantiated allegation of sexual harassment or abuse against one’s husband destroy her family’s livelihood? Could her son be labeled a sexual predator for life because of a failed college romance or seemly-consensual one-night stand? And these women saw the pain on Kavanaugh’s wife’s face as she quietly sat behind him while he pled his case. Women may decide that President Trump is the lesser of two evils.

      President Trump and the Republican base will no longer tolerate the Mueller witch hunt. While Mueller has been eternally fishing for Russian collusion, it is well known the Clinton campaign illegally funded a Russian dossier with the assistance of members of the FBI and CIA. This dossier was used to issue FISA warrants to spy on Trump’s campaign. Prominent intelligence officials such as former CIA Chief John Brenner and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper choreographed this and may have lied under oath to Congress about their involvement. President Trump may be willing to overlook this if the Mueller investigation ends; but if not, expect him to use his powers to appoint an Attorney General who is not afraid to fire Mueller or appoint another Special Prosecutor to assess these allegations.

      Kavanaugh has promised to be an impartial judge. Yet over 2,400 law professors signed a petition opposing his nomination after he was accused of sexual assault. Some of these professors will undoubtedly appear before Kavanaugh someday. It will be a true test of his judicial temperament to take seriously the argument of someone who accused him of sexual assault.