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The Lee Elci Show | 9.21.26 · The Lee Elci Show

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  Speaker 1: Good morning. This is George Agnelli filling in on the
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  Speaker 1: Lee Elsie Show. We're going to bring you a great
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  Speaker 1: show today. We got some big-name guests, and I hope
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  Speaker 1: you listen in, and I hope I do a good
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  Speaker 1: job of filling in for my favorite friend. We have
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  Speaker 1: John Bolton today. We have Betsy McCoy, Amy Borden, and
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  Speaker 1: we're going to top the show off with Ryan Fazio
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  Speaker 1: in the 8 o'clock hour. So just some of the
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  Speaker 1: news that's coming out today. Greenland is now going to
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  Speaker 1: be part of the United States. or a controlled territory
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  Speaker 1: of the United States, which is a really nice bonus
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  Speaker 1: for us for protection from Russian ballistic missiles. California legislation,
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  Speaker 1: you can't make this stuff up. The Senate just voted
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  Speaker 1: to give illegal aliens deposit money to buy houses. We
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  Speaker 1: have a housing shortage in the country. We have a
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  Speaker 1: worse housing shortage in California yet. They're going to make
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  Speaker 1: sure illegals get the right to own a house. Before
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  Speaker 1: your kids that grew up in California do. And you
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  Speaker 1: paid all those taxes. Can you make this stuff up? Because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what happens in California winds up happening in
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  Speaker 1: Connecticut three or four months later. And it's just stuff
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  Speaker 1: you just cannot make this stuff up. No matter how
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  Speaker 1: you do it, how you look at it, what's going on,
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  Speaker 1: you just have to question. You have to say, is
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  Speaker 1: there any brain cells left in California?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you think about it, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what they're smoking, what they're drinking, what the
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  Speaker 1: sun does to you out there, but what is happening
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  Speaker 1: out there. And then it winds up coming to our
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  Speaker 1: state because as the EPA laws have all been reduced
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  Speaker 1: so that cold fire utility plants can open back up
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  Speaker 1: and everything else, we don't follow the EPA standard in Connecticut.
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  Speaker 1: We follow California's EPA standard, which is stricter than the
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  Speaker 1: federal government's. So you have to think about all this
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  Speaker 1: stuff that's going on, and you have to think about
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  Speaker 1: all the things that are going on. And what people
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  Speaker 1: don't realize is two of the largest oil-to-gas, oil-to-diesel plants
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  Speaker 1: in California have been shut down in the last six months.
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  Speaker 1: So 20% of the supply for the West Coast no
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  Speaker 1: longer exists. And that's what's creating a lot of shortage.
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  Speaker 1: And I know the war is causing some of the
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  Speaker 1: gas because of the global pricing issue. But the shortage
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  Speaker 1: is because we have $ 2 trillion plants that have been
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  Speaker 1: shut down by Newsom and their EPA standards. And these
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  Speaker 1: are all things that need to be talked about and
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  Speaker 1: need to be brought around to the public. So let's
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  Speaker 1: think about these things. We have 15 million illegal people
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  Speaker 1: living here, right? 15 million were let in under the
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  Speaker 1: Biden administration. Do those 15 million people need less housing?
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  Speaker 1: Do they need less gas? Do they need less food?
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to know where the inflation is coming from,
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  Speaker 1: and do they need less care? In the state of
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  Speaker 1: Connecticut alone, just in the state of Connecticut alone, if
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  Speaker 1: you go to the Yankee Institute, and you can research this,
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  Speaker 1: they feel that we are spending an average of $ 1. 5
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  Speaker 1: billion a year just in Connecticut on illegal immigration. Okay, $ 1. 5 billion.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine if we actually put that into our schools?
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  Speaker 1: So think about this. You have 15 million more people.
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  Speaker 1: So let's say 300,000 are living in Connecticut. That's how
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  Speaker 1: many more houses do you need? Why do we have
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  Speaker 1: a housing shortage of 100,000? Because maybe we have families
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  Speaker 1: living here that shouldn't be living here. Maybe we would
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  Speaker 1: have gas prices come back down. Maybe our demand on
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  Speaker 1: the system in the United States, electrical, on our grid,
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  Speaker 1: everything else would drop right back off because our country
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  Speaker 1: was not made to absorb 20 million people in a
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  Speaker 1: year or two years or three years or actually four
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  Speaker 1: under the Biden administration. So when you look at all
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  Speaker 1: these different things, these are things that we have to
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  Speaker 1: talk about. These are things that we have to discuss.
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  Speaker 1: And these are things that I would love to have
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  Speaker 1: your phone calls on. It's 94 News Now. It's the
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  Speaker 1: Lee Elsie Show. And the phone number for anyone to
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  Speaker 1: call in is 860-464-7000. Nine four nine. Oh, as we
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  Speaker 1: go through this morning and we have some great interviews
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  Speaker 1: for you, you're going to your head's just going to
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  Speaker 1: spin with some of this stuff that people are going
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  Speaker 1: to come up with. We have an attorney general that
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  Speaker 1: says either you vote my way or you shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: on the ballot. Hello, Napoleon. What's next? You know, when
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  Speaker 1: you look at all these different things that are going
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  Speaker 1: on and happening, it's just absolute craziness. And you can't
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  Speaker 1: make it up. This morning, as I'm Googling California news
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  Speaker 1: or doing a research on it, I cannot believe it's
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  Speaker 1: actually going to the House that they're going to give
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  Speaker 1: down payment assistance to illegal aliens who can't even get
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  Speaker 1: a mortgage. Are they bypassing the mortgage rules? Because you
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  Speaker 1: have to have at least a green card to get
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  Speaker 1: a mortgage. Are we going to back them with government loans, FHA, CHFA, FHA?
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  Speaker 1: Are we going to just say, okay, no, you now
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  Speaker 1: qualify for a VA loan because veterans served our war,
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  Speaker 1: almost died, or maybe died for our country, but their
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  Speaker 1: families don't deserve the same thing you do as if
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  Speaker 1: you just cross the border illegally and get it. I
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  Speaker 1: was with a friend of mine from Toronto, and she goes, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to move to California. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: give me down payment assistance. Can you imagine that? Why
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  Speaker 1: stay here? Just drive to California. And let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you something. This person flew to the United States for
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  Speaker 1: the first time. Landed in Washington, D.C., landed in Bradley,
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  Speaker 1: and she goes, where do I go to immigration? They go, no,
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  Speaker 1: you just go right out the door. She did not
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  Speaker 1: get checked by one person what she was doing in
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  Speaker 1: the United States, what was happening, nothing. You cannot make
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  Speaker 1: this stuff up that's going on in the state of Connecticut,
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  Speaker 1: that's going on in California, that's going on in these
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  Speaker 1: blue-run states. They're all in deficit trouble. They've all got
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  Speaker 1: big problems going on. If you look at truth in accounting,
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  Speaker 1: the state of Connecticut ranks 49th out of 50th to
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  Speaker 1: go bankrupt. Yet you will never hear it on Channel 3,
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  Speaker 1: Channel 30, Channel 8. They will never talk about the debt,
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  Speaker 1: the spending that's out of control. You will never hear
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  Speaker 1: any of this stuff that's going on. So as we
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  Speaker 1: go through today's show, you're going to hear bits and
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  Speaker 1: pieces of all this different information. You're going to hear
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  Speaker 1: Brian Fazio from him, and you're going to hear how
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  Speaker 1: he's tried to put legislation in where nurses don't have
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  Speaker 1: to pay up to $ 375 for a license. So they're
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  Speaker 1: saving your life. They're taking care of you in the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: They're wiping your rear end if you need that help.
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  Speaker 1: And they're getting charged $ 375 in the state of Connecticut
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  Speaker 1: to have a license to take care of you. And
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  Speaker 1: I think he's right. I don't think that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: He's put several bills forward to remove licensing fee for
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  Speaker 1: nurses and service industry people who are helping you to
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  Speaker 1: survive in your lifetime. And a lot of these things
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  Speaker 1: don't make sense. So I agree with him on that.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk a little bit about that today.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about our attorney general, how he
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  Speaker 1: has sued the Trump administration, I don't know, 35, 40 times.
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  Speaker 1: How many millions has he spent? Because on our sister
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  Speaker 1: radio station, he was asked a question, what is your
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  Speaker 1: DTS system? What is the problem with DTS? And Gary
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  Speaker 1: asked him, on a scale of 1 to 10, what
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  Speaker 1: is your DTS? His answer was 12. So he admits
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  Speaker 1: he has this problem and is speaking of September 10th
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  Speaker 1: when he came out and said, If you support anything
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  Speaker 1: that Trump supports, you shouldn't be on the ballot. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: these are some of the things we're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about this morning. I'm sorry for going all over the place,
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  Speaker 1: but there's so much going on, and my mind's all
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  Speaker 1: over the place with all this stuff. So as we
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  Speaker 1: bring it back, and then, you know, the big story
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  Speaker 1: in Connecticut right now is the Casas Diamantis that went
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  Speaker 1: to Greece. And they knew he was a dual citizenship.
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't they put an ankle bracelet on him? You know,
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  Speaker 1: you're at house release. And, you know, he basically showed
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  Speaker 1: that anybody can do anything they want to do if
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  Speaker 1: they have the money to do it. And he knew
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  Speaker 1: he was facing 10 years for his corruption charges. And
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  Speaker 1: he was older. And you can't blame him. His lawyer
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  Speaker 1: was sort of laughing at Norm Pattis, was sort of
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  Speaker 1: smiling about what he got away with. And Greece does
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  Speaker 1: not have extradition if you.
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  Speaker 1: Wind up uh if you had a murder or you
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  Speaker 1: did some of this but for collusion or um anything
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  Speaker 1: to do finances uh you cannot extradite a greek citizen
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  Speaker 1: and i don't think they're going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: bring him back and then they canceled his um his
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  Speaker 1: retirement and i don't think they can do that legally
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  Speaker 1: i know they can you know make him they can
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  Speaker 1: stop direct deposit but But I don't believe that they'll
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  Speaker 1: be able to confiscate his retirement account with just stopping
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  Speaker 1: it and saying, sorry, we're not paying you anymore because
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  Speaker 1: you've been convicted of a felon. You know, he did
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  Speaker 1: work to 30 years. He's entitled to the retirement. I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to get your thoughts on some of this stuff and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, see where you are and go from there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is just, you know, the guy doesn't
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  Speaker 1: show up. Wasn't anybody paying attention? to making sure this
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  Speaker 1: guy didn't leave the state of Connecticut? Or was he
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  Speaker 1: such a friend? of the governor that everybody was hoping
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  Speaker 1: he got away? The only guy that's really smiling the
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  Speaker 1: most is the governor because he doesn't want any of
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  Speaker 1: this backlash, you know, to come to him. Because if
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  Speaker 1: you look at Lamont and you look at all the
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  Speaker 1: things that are going on and you see where he
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  Speaker 1: was told, that the charity fund in Waterbury shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: getting any more money, and they received $ 1. 5 million to
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  Speaker 1: pay light bills for people, and they had to pay $ 1. 2
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  Speaker 1: million to the state of Connecticut, and their check bounced
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  Speaker 1: because they were overusing their budget. And that's the company
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  Speaker 1: in Waterbury. And then there's Senator McCoy in.
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  Speaker 1: Bloomfield, along with Cicero, was using the Ponzi scheme of
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  Speaker 1: moving audit money from charity to charity to charity. And
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  Speaker 1: these are the different things that happen. So they're allowed
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  Speaker 1: to audit money that goes to a nonprofit. But when
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  Speaker 1: it goes from one nonprofit to another, so they basically
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  Speaker 1: had a three-ring circus between three nonprofits, and they got
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  Speaker 1: in $ 5 million. to this nonprofit. Then they moved it
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  Speaker 1: to that nonprofit. Now it's not auditable. So they couldn't
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  Speaker 1: see where the money was being spent. They couldn't see
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  Speaker 1: where the money was. And, you know, these are the
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  Speaker 1: different things that have happened. And it's all circling this governor,
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  Speaker 1: all this fraud. It's not hasn't touched him yet. It's
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  Speaker 1: circling above him because, again, Channel 8, Channel 30, Channel
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  Speaker 1: 3 won't. do the diligence that's necessary because it's a Democrat. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: we have Democratic news stations that will not hold our
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  Speaker 1: governor accountable for all the things that are happening in
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  Speaker 1: the state of Connecticut, and we need them to get involved,
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  Speaker 1: and they need to do, actually, reporting. It's craziness. All
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  Speaker 1: you hear about on the news is who got shot,
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  Speaker 1: who got murdered, where the fire is. You don't hear
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  Speaker 1: them holding any of these politicians accountable. How much has
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  Speaker 1: Tong spent suing Trump? How much money has been lost
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  Speaker 1: by these nonprofits? And how many nonprofits have been not
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  Speaker 1: audited to see where the money is really being spent?
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  Speaker 1: And if just several of them already have money issues,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's time that we do an audit of all
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  Speaker 1: of them to see where the money is being spent.
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  Speaker 1: There's like no checkers of the checkers going on. So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you're not checking where the money is
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  Speaker 1: being spent and nobody's paying attention to it and every
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  Speaker 1: year you're getting another amount of money, you're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: they won't miss this money and I'll put it back.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's like a gambler gambling, you know, his
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  Speaker 1: life savings thing. Oh, OK, my retirement account. Well, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to double it. I'm going to triple it. I
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  Speaker 1: want to run it on red and run it on black.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll pay it back when I win. And that
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  Speaker 1: usually never happens. And that's what's happening with all these nonprofits.
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  Speaker 1: And rather than having government-run programs, we give these monies
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  Speaker 1: to charities and churches and everything else. And they're not
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  Speaker 1: balancing all these accounts. So while all this stuff is
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  Speaker 1: going on, it is very rough to see as a taxpayer,
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  Speaker 1: as a citizen. that we owe, according to Truth in Accounting, $ 44, 000
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  Speaker 1: per taxpayer, but only owe $ 8, 000 per resident. So that
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  Speaker 1: means basically every sixth of us is paying for the
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  Speaker 1: other five. And that's how it works in a democratic society.
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  Speaker 1: Take it from the ones that can pay and divvy
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  Speaker 1: it out to the ones that can't. And then what
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  Speaker 1: happens is you have five votes to one and you
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  Speaker 1: keep winning and winning and winning and Unfortunately, that's what's
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  Speaker 1: happened in the state of Connecticut. And at some point
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  Speaker 1: in time, you have to say uncle. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that that's starting to happen as I talked to some
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  Speaker 1: of my minority friends in Hartford and everything else. And
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  Speaker 1: they're like looking around like the illegals are getting treated
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  Speaker 1: better than us. And there's the minority population is starting
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  Speaker 1: to say, hey, wait a minute, there's something wrong. They're
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  Speaker 1: even realizing there's something wrong with the picture when the
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  Speaker 1: guy just shows up and gets a cell phone, he's
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  Speaker 1: getting food stamps, and he hasn't worked a day. And
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  Speaker 1: the more kids you have, the more money you get,
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  Speaker 1: the more money you get. And that's why we, the
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  Speaker 1: population of Connecticut, can't reproduce kids because we can't afford them.
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  Speaker 1: Because we're not handed all this free stuff to have kids.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what's happening to our society. And when a
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  Speaker 1: society stops reproducing, it becomes big problems for that society.
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  Speaker 1: And when you have foreigners that are reproducing at an
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  Speaker 1: alarming rate because we're paying for them and they don't
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  Speaker 1: really belong here and they're like, well, OK, you have
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  Speaker 1: your first kid. We pay for it. You have your
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  Speaker 1: second kid. That's it. We cut you off. You have
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  Speaker 1: to figure it out.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to have 20 kids. It doesn't matter. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to give you funding for all 20 kids. And
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  Speaker 1: there's no limitation. There's no saying, hey, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: have to be responsible for yourself. So I know I've
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  Speaker 1: gone on and I've rambled on about a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different things, but there's just so much going on that
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  Speaker 1: we need to talk about it and we need to
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  Speaker 1: discuss it and we need to have conversation about all
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  Speaker 1: of it and figure it all out. And then we're
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  Speaker 6: How are you, sir?
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Great. How are you?
• 28:21
  Speaker 31: Well, I have to tell you, you said you were
• 28:23
  Speaker 31: all over the place in the first half hour in
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  Speaker 31: your opening monologue, and boy, you look at the last five, six,
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  Speaker 31: seven days and so many issues out there that you
• 28:31
  Speaker 31: highlighted in the beginning of the show that touched upon
• 28:33
  Speaker 31: my campaign, and Connecticut overall, it's just... Yeah, you're right.
• 28:38
  Speaker 31: It's hard to keep it straight, especially on a Monday
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  Speaker 31: morning at 630. But I'm glad to be here.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much for coming on last minute. And
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: we appreciate it. But, you know, as September 10th or
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: was 11th attorney, the attorney general said, oh, you know,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: if you don't vote my way, you shouldn't even be
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: on the ballot. I would you like to comment about
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: that a little bit?
• 29:01
  Speaker 31: Yeah, because I actually put a lot of material out
• 29:03
  Speaker 31: and I rebutted that. I responded to that immediately. What
• 29:08
  Speaker 31: he said was that an outdoor– it was funny because
• 29:10
  Speaker 31: it was the same time that I was doing a
• 29:12
  Speaker 31: presser on the south lawn of the Capitol with Ryan
• 29:15
  Speaker 31: Fazio and Matt Corey about corruption, of all things. And
• 29:18
  Speaker 31: what he said was, I can't call Republicans Republicans anymore.
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  Speaker 31: They're all MAGA. And what you need to do is
• 29:24
  Speaker 31: you have to declare where you stand. If you stand
• 29:28
  Speaker 31: with the president, then you are not fit to serve.
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  Speaker 31: You are not qualified to serve in public office. Now,
• 29:34
  Speaker 31: he used the word MAGA He said this twice, by
• 29:37
  Speaker 31: the way, that rally he was at. And he used
• 29:39
  Speaker 31: the term MAGA as a qualifier. But you know, and
• 29:42
  Speaker 31: I know, he was talking about Republicans and people who
• 29:45
  Speaker 31: don't agree with his policies. And I have to tell
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  Speaker 31: you something. In all of my 36 years of practicing law,
• 29:51
  Speaker 31: and I really mean this.
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  Speaker 4: This is not.
• 29:52
  Speaker 31: Campaign hyperbole right now. I have never heard a public official,
• 29:56
  Speaker 31: especially the state's chief legal officer, enforcement officer, say such
• 30:02
  Speaker 31: an anti-democratic, authoritarian comment like that. He wrote off essentially
• 30:07
  Speaker 31: half the entire state of Connecticut from public service. And
• 30:10
  Speaker 31: that is just mind-blowing. George, it was mind-blowing to me.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of things he does is mind-blowing to me,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of things that are happening in the
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  Speaker 1: state of Connecticut, especially 40% of our– offices did not
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: do their proper auditing of equipment and there's like something
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: like two billion dollars worth of equipment cars vehicles not
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  Speaker 1: accounted for never mind all these credit cards that are
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: out there that everybody's just using like it's their household
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  Speaker 1: credit card and it belongs to.
• 30:40
  Speaker 31: The state of connecticut so i didn't hear the 40
• 30:44
  Speaker 31: number but i sure don't doubt it i know that
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  Speaker 31: for example like the department of education they haven't done
• 30:49
  Speaker 31: an inventory of any of their equipment in 15 years
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  Speaker 31: 15 years I mean, who knows if that stuff is
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  Speaker 31: being sold on eBay or off the back of a truck.
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  Speaker 31: And that's a lack of institutional control. It's precisely what's
• 31:04
  Speaker 31: really upsetting voters. Add to the fact you have the
• 31:07
  Speaker 31: situation with, you mentioned Diamantis, the Cardona contract. Everybody's wondering,
• 31:15
  Speaker 31: who are they serving? The state government has become so detached,
• 31:20
  Speaker 31: so tone deaf from really representing the people and doing
• 31:23
  Speaker 31: the people's work. that it's staggering. And that's 40%. I've
• 31:26
  Speaker 31: got to look into that because that's an amazing stat.
• 31:28
  Speaker 31: But sure, you're talking about a lot of assets out
• 31:31
  Speaker 31: there unaccounted for. I mean, there's been grants given to
• 31:34
  Speaker 31: Connecticut by the federal government that haven't been spent in
• 31:38
  Speaker 31: four or five years. And the question is, where's the
• 31:41
  Speaker 31: money going? Is it going to no-show jobs? Is it
• 31:43
  Speaker 31: political patronage? And it's become a culture of corruption in
• 31:47
  Speaker 31: this state that the entitlement at the highest levels It's
• 31:52
  Speaker 31: actually breathtaking, you know, when you really look back and
• 31:54
  Speaker 31: think about it. And I can only tell you that
• 31:59
  Speaker 31: Matt Corey, Ryan Fazio, and I have discussed this. You know,
• 32:02
  Speaker 31: one element of my campaign is going to be an
• 32:05
  Speaker 31: anti-corruption strike force. We're going to start taking those whistleblower
• 32:08
  Speaker 31: complaints that come from the Auditor of Public Accounts, which
• 32:11
  Speaker 31: ironically my dad was a veteran of 30 years. He
• 32:13
  Speaker 31: worked for the Auditor of Public Accounts. And when things
• 32:16
  Speaker 31: went awry, they had a report to the Attorney General's office.
• 32:19
  Speaker 31: I was brought up with concepts of transparency and open
• 32:23
  Speaker 31: government and just doing the right ethical things, and we've
• 32:28
  Speaker 31: lost our way. We are fighting for the soul of
• 32:31
  Speaker 31: our state right now in this election cycle, and we
• 32:34
  Speaker 31: have to get our state back. We have to give
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  Speaker 31: it back to the people. We certainly have to give
• 32:37
  Speaker 31: the people's lawyer's office back to the people because I
• 32:40
  Speaker 31: think my opponent has been anything but Connecticut. I call
• 32:43
  Speaker 31: him the ABCAG because he puts all sorts of different
• 32:46
  Speaker 31: priorities ahead of the people of the state. And I
• 32:49
  Speaker 31: think there's going to be an enormous pushback in November.
• 32:51
  Speaker 31: I'm getting a tremendous amount of feedback. And there's an
• 32:55
  Speaker 31: undercurrent out there. Whether you're independent, Republican, or Democrat, what
• 33:00
  Speaker 31: is he doing for us? What has he done to
• 33:02
  Speaker 31: advance the agenda of the people of Connecticut? And when
• 33:05
  Speaker 31: people say, and they talk about affordability, yep, it's about
• 33:08
  Speaker 31: utility rates and yes, and taxes. But I'll tell you
• 33:11
  Speaker 31: one thing. The number one, in my opinion, my humble opinion,
• 33:14
  Speaker 31: the number one cause of the affordability crisis in Connecticut
• 33:18
  Speaker 31: is corruption. Corruption is what drives the cost of living
• 33:21
  Speaker 31: up in Connecticut.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: And I feel very strongly about that. There's no question
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: about it. Millions upon millions are going to nonprofits who
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: are preachers and teachers and all different things. They don't
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: know how to handle a couple million dollars or $ 10
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: million or $ 15 million. They've never handled that kind of
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: money in their life. They've done a church budget, which
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: is $ 60, 000 a year or $ 80, 000 a year, and you
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• 33:48
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• 33:51
  Speaker 1: this little bit of money if I do this. Look,
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• 34:00
  Speaker 1: retired or fired. heads of our community colleges, like $ 1. 2
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: million a year plus benefits, and one was fired. He
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: didn't even follow the contract. He didn't even move to
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: the state of Connecticut, and he was buying steak dinners,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: and he was doing everything on his credit card. One,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: the amount of fraud just there alone, and yet we
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: keep paying these people, and they don't even live in
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: a state or help our school system.
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  Speaker 10: Not at all.
• 34:27
  Speaker 31: And a lot of them get recycled into different agencies
• 34:29
  Speaker 31: and get buried. thinking that, well, they went on to
• 34:32
  Speaker 31: different greener pastures. In fact, you're absolutely right. They're still
• 34:35
  Speaker 31: on state dime. And you look what's going on here
• 34:38
  Speaker 31: right now with Diamantis actually sued Connecticut on Friday to
• 34:46
  Speaker 31: prevent or preempt any type of revocation of his pension.
• 34:51
  Speaker 31: I'll be fair, okay? The statute in Connecticut is very
• 34:55
  Speaker 31: clear that the attorney general cannot petition the superior court
• 34:59
  Speaker 31: to revoke or claw back, as they call it, the
• 35:02
  Speaker 31: pension that Diamantis has until he is sentenced. Because under
• 35:06
  Speaker 31: the federal guidelines and under the way the statute in
• 35:09
  Speaker 31: Connecticut is written for the AG authorizing this, it is
• 35:13
  Speaker 31: the sentencing that confirms the conviction. That's the triggering event
• 35:17
  Speaker 31: that you now go back after the pension. So I
• 35:20
  Speaker 31: saw on social media a lot of people were criticizing
• 35:22
  Speaker 31: my opponent's office for not– uh... doing that and he
• 35:26
  Speaker 31: couldn't okay the law was very clear he's preempted until
• 35:30
  Speaker 31: had he shown up last thursday the amount is that
• 35:32
  Speaker 31: he would have had the trigger event to the right
• 35:34
  Speaker 31: superior court so he stalled out on that but here's
• 35:36
  Speaker 31: where i'm going to criticize the attorney general on this
• 35:38
  Speaker 31: one issue with the amount is he's been very vocal
• 35:41
  Speaker 31: he gives a lot of testimony uh... they they they
• 35:45
  Speaker 31: shape a lot of public policy on laws that they
• 35:48
  Speaker 31: want to advance so for example on this trust act
• 35:51
  Speaker 31: expansion and the original trust act my opponent was a
• 35:54
  Speaker 31: key contributor to the writing of what I think is
• 35:57
  Speaker 31: a violation of the Supremacy Clause with Connecticut's Trust Act
• 36:01
  Speaker 31: and many aspects of it. Tremendous. A cheerleader. Why hasn't
• 36:06
  Speaker 31: anybody gone out there and tried to cheerlead or introduce
• 36:10
  Speaker 31: legislation that refines and brings up to date in situations
• 36:14
  Speaker 31: like Diamantis when you can go after the pension so
• 36:17
  Speaker 31: that you're not stalled out because of the literal definition?
• 36:20
  Speaker 31: That should have been expanded on. These are situations that
• 36:23
  Speaker 31: they have to have some prescience for, and they're not
• 36:26
  Speaker 31: doing it because that's not on the top of their agenda.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: And that's sad.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, just the whole– you knew the guy had
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: a Greek citizenship. Why didn't he have an ankle bracelet on?
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: You're out on bail or bond, and if you weren't
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: the governor's buddy or his second in command for all
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the things that he did– Why didn't he have ankle
• 36:50
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• 36:52
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• 36:54
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• 36:57
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• 37:00
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• 37:03
  Speaker 1: when you think about those different things and you just look,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: it's just it's just Heinz in the state of Connecticut.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: It's always Heinz. Oh, we wish we did that. We
• 37:12
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• 37:16
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  Speaker 1: attention to what's really happening to the people in the
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  Speaker 1: state of Connecticut.
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  Speaker 31: Because we're not at the top of their priority. And
• 37:25
  Speaker 31: that's when I say the ABCAG, anything but Connecticut. So
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  Speaker 31: you said something to the effect of 40-something lawsuits brought
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  Speaker 31: against the federal government by my opponent. Actually, my count,
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  Speaker 31: the greatest at adding the math, but I have 69
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  Speaker 31: since January 20th, 2025. that he's joined or initiated, mostly joined.
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  Speaker 31: And let me just give you a quick blurb on that.
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  Speaker 31: He's had some wins, but his wins are procedural, meaning
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  Speaker 31: that you never get to the ultimate substantive issue, the
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  Speaker 31: turning over the voter rolls and whatnot, It was a
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  Speaker 31: procedural defect that won that case for him and got
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  Speaker 31: him the injunction because the president can't do that through
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  Speaker 31: an executive order. It's an act of Congress. It's in
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  Speaker 31: the Constitution. All right, so basically I agree 100% of
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  Speaker 31: what Trump was trying to do with that in terms
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  Speaker 31: of verification and cleaning up the voter rolls, everything, 100%. However,
• 38:34
  Speaker 31: he went about it in a manner that was counter
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  Speaker 31: to what they call the Administrative Procedures Act. So he
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  Speaker 31: gets a win on that, on the technicality. And then
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  Speaker 31: he spikes the football and makes it sound like he
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  Speaker 31: just stared down the entire federal government on the issue. No,
• 38:46
  Speaker 31: it's procedural. It doesn't go to the ultimate substance, the
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  Speaker 31: merits of the matter. What's going on in our voter rolls?
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  Speaker 31: You know, people say to me, well, can you prove
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  Speaker 31: I don't have to. All right? Four out of ten
• 39:00
  Speaker 31: voters think their votes don't count. And when you have
• 39:03
  Speaker 31: that kind of– such a low confidence in our electoral system,
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  Speaker 31: government– I believe, is charged with restoring that confidence. And
• 39:13
  Speaker 31: you restore that confidence by ensuring citizenship and whatever else
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  Speaker 31: was in the proposed SAVE Act. I'm sorry, but that's
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  Speaker 31: the way you have to approach it. Because what the
• 39:24
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  Speaker 31: me examples of actual voter fraud and prove it and
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  Speaker 31: this and that. Well, you know, it's a very high
• 39:31
  Speaker 31: bar to do that. My approach is very simple. Restore confidence.
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  Speaker 1: We could add a billion dollars to the Connecticut economy
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  Speaker 31: Folks in the Pennsylvania area that want to build wells
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  Speaker 31: natural gas pipelines. And so Cuomo shut it down at
• 46:43
  Speaker 31: that time, which is a policy that's being continued by
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  Speaker 31: Kathy Hochul. And when I accepted the nomination to run
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  Speaker 31: for attorney general at the convention, I made this a
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  Speaker 31: top priority in my speech because it's been bothering me
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  Speaker 31: for now 12 years because I was back in it
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  Speaker 31: back then. I will have to go to New York State,
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  Speaker 31: Letitia James, Kathy Hochul, both, and simply say, what are
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  Speaker 31: impacting in a very prejudicial way Connecticut's economy and ability
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  Speaker 31: to come up with a plan for me to allow
• 47:15
  Speaker 31: this to come through your state to get to Connecticut. Otherwise,
• 47:18
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• 47:22
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• 47:24
  Speaker 31: the Supreme Court. Essentially, it's kind of a rare procedure
• 47:27
  Speaker 31: to do. But I'm going to have to pull every
• 47:29
  Speaker 31: lever and use every tool in my toolbox as the
• 47:31
  Speaker 31: Attorney General to get New York State to come around because...
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  Speaker 31: It is outrageous. And you're 100% right on that billion-dollar figure. And,
• 47:39
  Speaker 31: you know, Ryan is great with energy. He knows that
• 47:41
  Speaker 31: stuff like the back of his hands. And I know
• 47:43
  Speaker 31: about two weeks ago they cranked out some numbers that
• 47:46
  Speaker 31: were staggering as to the amount of relief the taxpayer
• 47:50
  Speaker 31: and the ratepayer in Connecticut would receive by just having
• 47:53
  Speaker 31: that access to natural gas. My opponent filed, you know,
• 47:56
  Speaker 31: comment letters with the Federal Energy Regulatory Committee to slow
• 48:00
  Speaker 31: walk a proposal to fast-track natural gas pipelines that the
• 48:06
  Speaker 31: Trump administration wants to go forward with. And they're saying, nope,
• 48:11
  Speaker 31: can't do that. It's impacting air, water, and the social
• 48:17
  Speaker 31: justice or environmental justice communities. Meanwhile, Plainfield, which is a
• 48:21
  Speaker 31: lot closer to you than it is to me, is
• 48:23
  Speaker 31: going through this energy or this trash plant issue that
• 48:26
  Speaker 31: a lot of people have valid opinions excellent points about
• 48:29
  Speaker 31: what it's going to do to the environment and the
• 48:31
  Speaker 31: quality of life of people in playing field, and not
• 48:34
  Speaker 31: a word from the Attorney General. Because he's much more
• 48:38
  Speaker 31: interested in frustrating and resisting and obstructing the federal government
• 48:43
  Speaker 31: than he is representing the people of Connecticut. And the
• 48:45
  Speaker 31: word is out. This is not a Republican or a
• 48:47
  Speaker 31: Democrat issue. It's very simple. It's common sense. When are
• 48:50
  Speaker 31: you going to start going to bat for us? I
• 48:53
  Speaker 31: will do that. And whether you vote for me or not,
• 48:55
  Speaker 31: I'm going to be your Attorney General. He always likes
• 48:58
  Speaker 31: to say nobody's above the law. I like to say
• 48:59
  Speaker 31: nobody's beneath the law's protection. And he needs to start
• 49:02
  Speaker 31: being the attorney general for all the people of Connecticut.
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  Speaker 31: And the comment that you– when we started out this
• 49:07
  Speaker 31: interview about what he said about who's qualified to serve,
• 49:10
  Speaker 31: he told you exactly where he stands. That's the people's lawyer.
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  Speaker 31: He's only the people's lawyer for half of the state.
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  Speaker 31: He wrote off the other half and said we're not
• 49:18
  Speaker 31: even qualified to serve. it's amazing people are starting to
• 49:22
  Speaker 31: see it we're getting our message out there.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah well it's great i mean just think about if
• 49:25
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• 49:27
  Speaker 1: percent on their gas bill and every town could save
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: 30 percent on their gas bill and the homeowner was
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: saving 30 percent of gas bill It would be really
• 49:36
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  Speaker 4: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: People need something in their favor to say, oh, my God,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: our government's actually doing something for us. And the only
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: good thing that can happen is if Kathy Hochul loses
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  Speaker 1: in New York, which I think is going to happen
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: because it looks like the trend is going that way,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: just like it's going in Connecticut. People are just fed
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: up and sick and tired of a government for people
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: that it shouldn't represent. They've signed him. an oath to
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: represent the people of the state of Connecticut, not the
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  Speaker 1: illegal immigrants. And they do more to protect the illegal
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  Speaker 1: immigrants than they do to protect the people of the
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  Speaker 1: state of Connecticut. And the same thing is happening in
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  Speaker 1: New York, and I think the frustration level is going
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: to really help us this November.
• 50:35
  Speaker 31: No, I agree with you. People aren't stupid. They think
• 50:37
  Speaker 31: we are, but we're watching and we're not stupid. And
• 50:41
  Speaker 31: as usual, when somebody's in power way too long, as
• 50:44
  Speaker 31: this crew is up in Hartford, They become tone deaf.
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  Speaker 37: Yes.
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  Speaker 31: And they don't even see what they're doing. And they
• 50:50
  Speaker 31: push too hard.
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  Speaker 1: John, unfortunately, we only have one minute left. I know
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: you want to talk about Cardona a little bit.
• 50:55
  Speaker 31: Yeah, you know, listen, the whole issue again with corruption,
• 50:58
  Speaker 31: it's simple. You execute a contract with a commissioner of
• 51:04
  Speaker 31: a commission that hasn't been created yet. And then you
• 51:06
  Speaker 31: put a deadline on that commission for its staffing to
• 51:09
  Speaker 31: be like November 5th. I'm making that date up, but
• 51:11
  Speaker 31: it was November 5th. And then they say, well, we
• 51:14
  Speaker 31: have a deadline we have to get to, so we
• 51:15
  Speaker 31: have to go the no-bid contract route. Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 31: I mean, this is when you have a power-drunk government
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  Speaker 31: that doesn't even care. They get the sequence all messed up,
• 51:27
  Speaker 31: and they sit there and they give this excuse that, well,
• 51:29
  Speaker 31: we have to go the no-bid route on contracts because
• 51:32
  Speaker 31: we have a deadline. Yeah, well, you created that deadline,
• 51:35
  Speaker 31: so you know exactly what you were doing. That's the
• 51:37
  Speaker 31: hubris I'm talking about.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: Really quick, John. Really quick, John. How can somebody contribute
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• 51:43
  Speaker 31: So it's going to be John Bolton, number four, ag.com.
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• 51:50
  Speaker 31: and you can range anywhere from $ 5 to $ 340. We
• 51:53
  Speaker 31: still have a lot of catch-up to do. I got
• 51:55
  Speaker 31: into this race late. I'm glad I did. We're going
• 51:57
  Speaker 31: to win. We're going to do great. It's going to
• 51:59
  Speaker 31: be close, and we're all going to be exhausted November 3rd,
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  Speaker 1: And you're having a fundraiser Monday night at Crystal Ridge
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  Speaker 31: Correct, on the 28th, and it's a really beautiful backdrop,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for your time today, and enjoy your big holiday.
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  Speaker 31: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, this is George Agnelli with 94.9 News Now. I'm
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• 59:36
  Speaker 1: her name is Betsy McCoy. Good morning, Betsy. Give us
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  Speaker 46: What's my line?
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  Speaker 46: We should just do this.
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  Speaker 7: No, you do this. You do this line.
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  Speaker 46: So, yes, we may be a little off the beaten path.
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  Speaker 46: That's only because the beaten path doesn't have this much
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  Speaker 45: The morning show always seems to make a pot right
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  Speaker 45: before they leave. Then it just sits here all day.
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  Speaker 1: We're at 94 News Now, and we're back from a
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  Speaker 47: Well, thank you, George. I'm glad to be on, especially now,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 47: 43 days till Election Day, and my message is it's
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 47: time to take off the gloves.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, definitely, 100%. We're in the second round, and we're
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: warming up like Sylvester Stallone or Rocky.
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  Speaker 47: That's right. And when I say take off the gloves,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 47: I mean raise the issue that nobody seems to be discussing,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 47: but everyone in Connecticut should know about, because it makes
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 47: it clear that the Democratic Party in this state is
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 47: as far left and as radical as in New York
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 47: and California. The Connecticut Democrats are trying to ram through
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 47: a statewide property tax. They call it a mansion tax.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 47: it would impact all real estate over $ 3 million. That
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 47: means if your primary residence is worth $ 3 million, lucky you,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 47: or if you live in an apartment building, George, and
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 47: the apartment building is worth $ 3 million, your landlord is
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 47: going to get clobbered with that tax and pass it
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 47: on to you. We don't need a statewide property tax
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 47: in Connecticut. We need property tax relief, not more taxes
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 47: on top of the property taxes we're already paying.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: Right, but when you're spending, according to the Yankee Institute,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: they're saying we're spending an average of $ 1. 5 billion a
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: year on illegals. They have to keep taxing everybody. They
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: have to find new ways to create taxes.
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  Speaker 8: That's right.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 47: Connecticut has a declining population, so state spending should be declining,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 47: not increasing. But I want to bring to everyone's attention
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 47: this statewide property tax because whether you are an owner
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 47: or a renter— You are going to get hit with this.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 47: Voting for Democrats this time amounts to suicide because you
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 47: will be hit with this statewide property tax. And they
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 47: say houses worth $ 3 million. You know when they reintroduce it,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 47: it'll be $ 1 million or maybe even $ 500, 000. The fact
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 47: is it's going to hit everybody, and that statewide property
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 47: tax is on top of what you're already paying.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: Correct, and you pay a conveyance tax. Most people, because
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: I own a real estate company and a jewelry store,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: almost fall off their chair when I say, well, when
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: you sell the house, you've got to figure 5% for
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: the realtor, 4%, whatever you negotiate, 6%. And then you've
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: got to add 1% conveyance tax to the state and town,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: and they go, what? I go, yeah, when you sell
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: your house, you have to pay a tax to sell
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: your house. And they're like, they fall off their chair.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: And think about how many houses are sold in Connecticut today.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: and the state is getting a half a percent of
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: your house, and the towns are getting a quarter to
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: a half a percent of your house, depending on which
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: town you're in, and it adds up to some serious
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: money every month, and you wonder where that money goes.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 47: But that's already on the books. Let's just make it
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 47: clear what we're discussing here. At stake in this election
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 47: is whether you're going to have a statewide property tax
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 47: in addition to the local property taxes, that are already
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 47: killing us, and especially driving seniors out of the state
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 47: and out of their homes. And every single Democrat in
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 47: committee voted for this statewide property tax, except Jill Berry,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 47: who is now running as an independent and voting, caucusing
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 47: with the Republicans. So every single Democrat is committed to
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 47: voting for this statewide property tax. That means it gets
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 47: through no matter what, unless we have a red wave
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 47: and break the Democrats' supermajority in the legislature. Nobody wants
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 47: a statewide property tax. They're keeping it silent. I haven't
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 47: heard our wonderful candidate for governor, Ryan Fazio, discuss this
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 47: statewide property tax, but he should be discussing it. If
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 47: he's coming on today, please ask him about it. I
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 47: don't mean it as a criticism, but as I said,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 47: it's time to take the gloves off. And when people vote,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 47: either early voting or they go to the polls, just remember,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 47: you pulled that lever for the Democrats, you are voting
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 47: for a statewide property tax on top of the local
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 47: property tax you're already paying. And if you're a renter,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 47: you're voting to raise your rent.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: No, it's craziness. And then I know the gas pipeline
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: was something you had in your campaign, and we know
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: it will add a billion dollars– a year to the economy.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: Imagine if we can reduce people's gas bills by a
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: billion dollars a year. That's what the research says it's
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: going to bring. And, I mean, that would just help everybody, renters, landlords, municipalities.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: It will help everybody. And this governor won't even talk
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 17: Right.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 47: He won't talk about it. But you know what he
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 47: really won't talk about, George? He won't talk about the
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 47: fact that Connecticut is tied with Oregon for the second
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 47: worst unemployment figures in the nation. He's actually going to
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 47: business groups and bragging about his performance over the last
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 47: eight years. Connecticut ranks almost last, second to dead last,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 47: for unemployment. Unemployment. There is no reason why unemployment should
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 47: be a problem in Connecticut. We have great resources. We
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 47: have a highly educated workforce. We have a major airport.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 47: We are sandwiched between two of the biggest cities in
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 47: the United States. And we have our own thriving economy.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 47: It was thriving, but it's not thriving anymore because under
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 47: Lamont's heavy taxes and regulations, businesses and other employers have
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 47: left the state. And now Connecticut's unemployment.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 31: 5.1 percent.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 4: It's a disgrace.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 47: Tied with Oregon for the second worst employment figures in
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 47: the nation. Only California is worse. a little higher, a
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 47: little more than 5.1%. So the Dems are Californicating Connecticut.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 47: That's what they're doing. They're far, far left Dems, and
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 47: they are destroying the state. They're socialists.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I believe that, you know, unemployment, the
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: problem with unemployment in the state of Connecticut is you
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: go on LinkedIn and you make three appointments for your job,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: and then you don't have to show up, and you're getting,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: you know, you wind up getting, you know, the help
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: from the federal government. So you get $ 300 to $ 500
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: a month in food stamps, and then you wind up,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: call it food stamps because that's what it is. They
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: have different names for it now. More politically correct, I
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: call it food stamps. Then you have... you're getting $ 600
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: or $ 700 a week unemployment, and there's no reason for
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: you to go get a job. But, okay, after six weeks,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: you should start losing 5% a week of your unemployment.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: So it's going down, so it forces you to get
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: a job because sometimes the job.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 10: You have to take.
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  Speaker 41: There's only one person to blame for this, George.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 47: It's not all these benefits. It's Ned Lamont. Lefty Lamont
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 47: is to blame for this very high unemployment rate. And
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 47: the Connecticut Republican Party should have billboards up and down 95, 84,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 47: all the different roads, calling attention to the fact that
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 47: we are almost tied for last place in the worst
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 47: unemployment figures in the nation. How can you explain it
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 47: when we have such an educated workforce And so many resources.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: Outrageous.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: But if you Google or you research the top 25
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: companies that left the state of Connecticut, it's major industries
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: like Lego, major manufacturing, Stanley Works. You lose these type
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: of jobs and you don't replace them. And then if
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: you research the top 25 companies that have come in,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: we're opening branches at Chase Bank. We have Dave's Little
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: Chicken opening three franchises in Connecticut. And that's what we're
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: replacing it with. So when you lose jobs of Lego
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: and lower paying jobs, and then you have these people
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: on unemployment and they don't want to take the lower
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: paying jobs because we're not bringing in the big people.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: That's right. That's the problem.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 47: And when our kids graduate from high school or college
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 47: and want to stay in Connecticut, they can't because there's
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 47: no future for them here. So we have to revive Connecticut.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 47: As you know, when I ran, my major platform was
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 47: phasing out the state income tax because it will make
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 47: Connecticut competitive again. All those companies you just mentioned that
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 47: have left Connecticut, they've all gone to states. with zero
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 47: state income tax or states that are phasing it out
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 47: using the same plan that I've proposed. It doesn't create
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 47: a big hole in the budget. Basically, it says the
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 47: legislation says we're capping spending at the current level. I
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 47: can't go up. Very reasonable since Connecticut's losing population. And
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 47: then when new revenue comes in, and it will, once
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 47: you announce you're going to zero, business picks up, activity
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 47: picks up. All that new revenue... is devoted to axing
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 47: the tax. Every time new revenue increases 5%, you slice
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 47: that tax rate again. And in five to seven years,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 47: you have created a state that will be the economic
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 47: engine of the Northeast.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, no, there's no question about it. And just
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: think about it. If the gas pipeline came in, we'd
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: save businesses 30% on their gas bills to heat their buildings.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: You know, just that alone would create jobs right off
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: the top of the bat because if The companies had
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: an ease in, like, let's say they paid a million
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: dollars a year to heat their plant, and now they're
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: paying $ 700, 000. That puts $ 300, 000 in their budget to hire
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: more people or do more development or do more product
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: development that they're not paying for a basic utility cost
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: that they won't have to pay in South Carolina or
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: North Carolina or Kentucky, where all these businesses seem to
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: be heading to because the utility costs are so much
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: lower in those states.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 47: So, George, are you going to have any Democrats on
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 47: your program?
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: Well, I am a Democrat, but my party has left me.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: I've built a homeless shelter. Let's get them on and
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: nail them over this statewide property tax. They won't come on.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: I've tried. Trust me, I've tried. I've invited them all on.
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  Speaker 1: They will not. And I'm a Democrat.
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  Speaker 47: I'm not criticizing you. I'm not criticizing you. I just
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  Speaker 47: want to nail these Democrats on the statewide property tax.
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  Speaker 47: I haven't seen it discussed. We ought to have billboards.
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  Speaker 47: We ought to have it in social media. We ought
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  Speaker 1: This bill through. They'll probably call a special session and
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  Speaker 47: You bet. This bill was sponsored by Martin Looney, the
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  Speaker 47: going to call it the Looney Bill, and it should be.
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  Speaker 48: It's lunatic.
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  Speaker 47: It's lunacy to pass a statewide property tax.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as Jill Berry voted against them, she got
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  Speaker 1: voted out of her seat because she voted with the
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  Speaker 47: Now, there's one other issue we need to call attention to,
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  Speaker 31: And want to be freeloaders.
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  Speaker 1: Well, just think about this. California Senate passed a bill.
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  Speaker 47: You know, and— You know, that's a darn good idea, George.
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  Speaker 47: Listen, Lefty, Lefty Lamont, wants to Californicate Connecticut. He has
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  Speaker 47: the same thing. Connecticut is now holding up the sign,
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  Speaker 47: if you are a newcomer, an immigrant, and you want
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  Speaker 1: What Trump should do is say, you know what, we're
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  Speaker 47: Nah. No, I think sending him to California was a
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  Speaker 47: better idea.
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  Speaker 10: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we've got to have ideas. You know, we can
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  Speaker 1: talk about them at least. But I think California should
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  Speaker 47: I just want to see. Connecticut respects working people instead
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're going to have– we're going to know in
• 1:18:08
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  Speaker 9: 43.
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• 1:18:21
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  Speaker 47: Well, I'm urging everyone listening to get out and vote.
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  Speaker 30: man reported difficulty breathing. It was not immediately clear if
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  Speaker 30: either faces charges. A judge ordered New London financial offender
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 30: Stephen Gurney to pay nearly $ 588, 000 to his victims. He
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 30: admitted violating probation by failing to pay restitution and working
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 30: in prohibited financial businesses. Waterford and New London firefighters responded to.
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  Speaker 8: An RV fire.
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  Speaker 30: On I-95 North near exit 82A Saturday afternoon. The flames
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 30: spread to nearby grass and woods. No injuries were reported.
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  Speaker 8: The cause is being investigated.
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  Speaker 30: The Eastline Privacy Group wants the town's six flock cameras
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 30: turned off. while officials consider regulations. A public meeting is
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 30: scheduled for October 1st at the Community Center. More than 1,000 U.S., Australian,
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  Speaker 30: and British defense officials and contractors will attend a classified
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  Speaker 30: The three-day event will focus on submarine technology, artificial intelligence, security,
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  Speaker 30: and military readiness.
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  Speaker 8: I'm Sean Murphy. When news breaks, we break in. The
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  Speaker 1: Brought to you.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. This is George Agnelli on 94.9 News Now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm covering for the Lee Elsie Show. And I have
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  Speaker 1: an exciting guest with a lot of energy, a young
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: lady that started a group called Take Back Connecticut. Her
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: name is Amy Borden, and I know she could go
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: on for hours on this show, but we're going to
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: give her a half hour to get some of her
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  Speaker 1: points across, and I think you're going to love them.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Amy.
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  Speaker 37: Good morning, George.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 37: Thanks for having me on.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, anytime.
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  Speaker 37: And I hear that Ryan Fazio is coming up after me.
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 37: What an honor to precede him.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, well, I needed my warm-up. I had to get
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: everybody fired up and then get Ryan on.
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  Speaker 37: Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I mean, you know, Ryan's doing
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 37: a great job out there hammering home what we're facing
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 37: and what we have been facing in Connecticut, which is
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 37: just total government overreach on so many levels. And, you know,
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 37: affordability packs a punch in the state of Connecticut when
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 37: it comes to the cost of living, like Betsy McCoy
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 37: was talking about. And one of those things that we
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 37: can control as the voter is who we put in office,
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 37: because these are the folks that are legislating new taxes
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 37: and raising existing ones. And so to try to go
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 37: in and help Ryan Fazio and the Democrats, I'm sorry,
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 37: the Republicans that are on the ticket this election year,
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 37: I've been doing some research on just how far and
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 37: wide some of these taxes that have been implemented over
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 37: the years go. And, you know, Ned Lamont, obviously a Democrat,
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 37: and hopefully there's independent and unaffiliated voters that listen to
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 37: this show. I know Lee draws that crowd heavily, so
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 37: I hope they're paying close attention to this segment because
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 37: they're the ones that we need to swing this vote
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 37: to the right to help us stop the bleeding. But
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 37: Ned Lamont and Governor Malloy, all of the Connecticut Democrats
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 37: that our citizens here in Connecticut have put into office
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 37: over the years have just, I mean, stacked tax upon
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 37: tax upon tax. One of the things that I wrote
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 37: about last week, if you go to my Facebook page,
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  Speaker 37: my name is Amy Borden, and it's spelled B-O-U-R-D-O-N. You
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 37: can go. I'm going to pin that post again, and
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 37: it talks about 2011. 2011 was a banner year for
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 37: tax implementation here in the state of Connecticut under, as
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 37: we are now, Connecticut supermajority rule. And, I mean, they
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 37: just blanketed everything that hadn't been taxed yet that they
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 37: could think of, everything from nail salon services to parking
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 37: a trailer, parking an RV. You know, you get your
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 37: car towed, they wanted to tax that. As if it
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 37: wasn't bad enough that you needed to tow your car,
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 37: they got to kick you when you're down. And I
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 37: just went year by year, and I'm trying to put
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 37: together a nice timeline just to show that, how bad
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 37: it has gotten. You know, I mean, I'm resurrecting things
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 37: like the grocery prepared foods pack. You go to the
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 37: grocery store, you buy a rotisserie chicken, the state government
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 37: thinks they should be able to tax that because it's prepared.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 37: The bag that you put it in to carry home,
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 37: they think they should be able to tax it. You know,
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 37: ambulatory services. Someone, literally companies that are taking care of
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 37: somebody that broke their arm over the weekend or whatever.
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 37: They walk into an urgent care. These folks are getting taxed.
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 37: These businesses are getting taxed. You know, it just it
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 37: never ends. It never ends with the Connecticut Democrats. And
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 37: then the other pattern that I discovered is they put
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 37: the tax in place and within five years they raise it.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 37: So you'll see these taxes get implemented 1%, 2%, 3%.
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  Speaker 37: And then if you fast forward, you'll see that instantly, boom,
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 37: they jumped it to 5% or 6%. They've raised our
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 37: income tax in the state of Connecticut. So there's a
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 37: clear pattern here. And we, I feel like as Republicans,
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 37: we have kind of pigeonholed ourselves into only talking about
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 37: what has happened in the previous election cycle. And that
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 37: does the voter a disservice because some of these folks
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 37: in Hartford have been in office or they're new and
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 37: they're freshmen senators or freshmen house reps, but they vote lock, stock,
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 37: and barrel with their colleagues in the Democrat Party. They've
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 37: been in there for so long or they are just
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 37: so emboldened thinking that the average voter has no idea
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 37: what's going on. And I have to agree with some
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 37: of that because as Republicans, we don't go far back
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 37: enough and say, wait a minute, how long has this
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 37: been going on? We say, you know, they've been in
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 37: office for decades.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 32: Okay.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 37: But what does that mean? What has it cost us?
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 37: And so I'm going to be rolling out on my
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 37: page and through my group page, Take Back Connecticut, which
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 37: people are welcome to go ahead and join. Um, some
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 37: of these, you know, taxations that, uh, we, you know,
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 37: I was out with my girlfriends getting my nails done.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 37: I said, look, look back in 2011, they put the
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 37: manicure pedicure tax in. I mean, there's no dry cleaning,
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 37: you name it.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 47: Over the years.
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 37: They just, if you buy it, if you, if it's
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 37: a service you utilize, look at the receipt right now,
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 37: we need everyone to be looking at receipts and invoices,
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 37: taking a picture of it, circle what Connecticut is collecting
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 37: and post it to social media and tag Ryan Fazio,
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 37: tag your local House rep that's running on the Republican ticket,
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 37: tag your local Senate rep that's running on the Republican ticket.
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 37: We need this stuff to go viral because they have
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 37: to own it. They have to stand up and say, yeah,
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 37: we did that and here's why. And the bigger question is,
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 37: and I want to let you comment on this, and
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 37: I've been talking for a while, but The bigger issue
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 37: is why. What do they have planned for the following
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 37: year that they need to implement a new tax? What
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 37: are they already dreaming up that they're going to spend
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 37: it on? What have they earmarked it for? Who have
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 37: they promised money to? That is at the core of
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 37: why they're doing this.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: It's out of control.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 37: It's out of control.
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: So it's going to go to charter schools because that's
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: what Stephen Mandel's policy is. He wants very expensive charter
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: schools that he can run, and he wants public housing,
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: which he can run. And he's a billionaire out of Greenwich,
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: and he's really pulling the puppet strings for the Democratic Party.
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: And if you go against him, he eliminates you. He
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: finds somebody to run against you, and that's what happened
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: to John Larson. John Larson was against charter schools, and
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: he— basically funded Luke Brunnen's campaign. And Luke didn't take
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: any money from other people because he's what Mr. Mandel wants.
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: And he's not going to go against he's not going
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: to do what's best for the state of Connecticut. He's
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: going to do what's best for Mr. Mandel. And, you know,
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: he's a hedge fund billionaire. And he's really set up several.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, I can't tell you how many different companies
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: he's set up and he's getting state grant money and
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: he's He's really doing illegal lobbying, but our attorney general
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: is not going to pay attention to what he's doing.
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: So we're hoping that we can change this and that
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: something can happen. But as long as they have a
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: supermajority and they keep winning a supermajority, they're going to
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: keep saying, well, you don't mind taxes. We're going to
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: give you a few more. We're going to add a
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: few more in. And those are things that happen. So
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: you buy it, you pay tax. You repair it, you
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: pay tax. You have it towed, you pay tax. You
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: then give it to your kids and you pay an
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: inheritance tax. So that same item is taxed. And if
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: you store your RV at a storage facility, you pay
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: tax on the storage. You're paying tax on the RV.
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: You're paying tax. I mean, you just taxed it. By
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: the time you're done, if you buy it for $ 50, 000,
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: by the time you're done repairing it, storing it, towing it,
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: you may have paid another 40 grand in tax for
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: a $ 50, 000 vehicle. It's just absolutely. And if you live
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: in like East Hartford or Hartford or, you know, where
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: the town's tax rate's 50%, you know, the mill rate's
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: 50 points and you have a $ 20, 000 car, you're paying $ 1, 000
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: just to drive a secondhand car.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 37: That was another issue is how they decided to tax
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 37: the MSRP. People were opening their automobile tax bills and,
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 37: you know, jaws were hitting the floor. And some of
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 37: these people on social media, I'm like, no, no, you
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 37: don't get to complain because you voted for that.
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 37: So don't take your post down and go complain somewhere
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 37: else or else go into the ballot at the, you know,
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 37: the election booth and change what you're doing. And There
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 37: has to be, you know, Betsy said it best when
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 37: she said Connecticut is just like California. And I say
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 37: it all the time. I mean, Connecticut is just like
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 37: California and Canada.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 47: I mean, we.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 37: Mimic what they're doing in the two worst, like most
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 37: socialism implemented policy places there are. And how'd that go
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 37: for Canada?
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 47: That's what I say to everyone.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 37: I'm like, if you want to watch how bad this
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 37: experiment is, with Democrat rule, and giving everything away for free,
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 37: and thinking that every single thing, you can just throw
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 37: a tax on it to fund some cockamamie agency implementing
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 37: new ideas for this, and we'll give this organization... Remember
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 37: when Gary did a segment on all the different organizations
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 37: that got $ 480, 000, almost a half million dollars, and there
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 37: was like a page and a half of them. I mean,
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 37: just a half million. It's like, Oprah, you get a
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 37: half million. You get a half million. You get a
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 37: half million. It's like, that's our money. How come there's
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 37: all this money, and they ran a surplus, and they
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 37: haven't given any relief to the taxpayer?
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 37: I mean, there was one Democrat in Connecticut that got
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 37: caught on a hot mic saying you could tax You
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 37: can tax my people. That's what she called them. You
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 37: can tax my people more. They won't even notice.
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 31: I mean, look.
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 37: Like, how do people go back in and reelect these folks?
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 37: I don't, I mean, I don't get it. I really
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 37: think this year it's going to take the collective in
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 37: order to change the trajectory dramatically. It's going to.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 47: Take the collective.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry to interrupt you, but we've got to take
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: a break right now.
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  Speaker 37: That's okay.
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: And I know getting you going is like spinning a top, man.
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: You just get it going. This is George Agnelli with
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: 94 News Now. We're going to come back with Amy Borden,
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: take back Connecticut, and then we're going to talk about
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: the big party tonight that she's coming to and helping promote,
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  Speaker 1: Hi, this is George Agnelli with 94 News Now. Filling
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  Speaker 1: in on the Lee Elsie show for you on this
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  Speaker 1: gorgeous Monday. Nice fall day. Getting ready for the party
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: tonight with Amy and most of the Republicans will be there.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a fun event at Water's Edge.
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: It's the third annual Red, White, and Blue party. Lee
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: Elsie Gary Byron, George Agnelli bring this party to you.
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  Speaker 1: And there's no speeches, so you don't have to come
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  Speaker 1: and be bored. But there is locomotion, so make sure
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  Speaker 1: you bring your dancing shoes because it is one of
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: the best dance bands in Connecticut. And we're going to
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: have a fun time tonight. And we look forward to
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: everybody coming. And, you know, it's only $ 50 to get in.
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  Speaker 1: And you don't have to buy anything. You can just
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: come for the $ 50. You can have water. If you
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: want to, Water's Edge gives us the whole resort, so
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: we have plenty of room for everybody. And they allow
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: us to eat in the dining room, eat outside, eat
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  Speaker 1: in the bar. Whatever you'd like to do, they open
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  Speaker 1: up the whole place to us. And you're going to
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: get to meet some great people tonight. And we'll have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Amy, how are you doing there?
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  Speaker 1: I know Amy does Take Back Connecticut. It's free to
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: be on her Facebook page. And it gives you a
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: lot of insight of what's going on. And I advise
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: everybody to join it.
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  Speaker 37: Yeah, we have quite a mix. You know, it's conservatives, Republicans.
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  Speaker 37: We have quite a few unaffiliated and independent. I love
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 37: hearing their perspectives. You know, we try to post myself
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 37: and the members and other administrators that I've appointed. We
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 37: try to post event information like you just mentioned for tonight.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 37: So we've been posting about the Red, White, and Blue Party,
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  Speaker 37: which I love coming. It's a great time. The proceeds
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 37: go to the Connecticut GOP, and it's a huge fundraiser.
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 37: We really need people to come buy a ticket. If
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 37: you can't make it, you can still buy a ticket online,
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 37: and the proceeds go to the Connecticut GOP. It just
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 37: helps to fund. We have a website. We have other things,
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 37: but there's an overhead to running the Connecticut GOP, and
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 37: this helps to cover some of those costs so that
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 37: we can have a little extra to help kick back
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 37: the candidates and to put back into the community and
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 37: try to drive awareness through a lot of the things
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 37: we're talking about. So I'm looking forward to going.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And it's from great sponsorship. This is a free event.
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 1: So if you buy a $ 50 ticket, all $ 50. goes
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: to the Connecticut Republican Party. Dave from Barber Utilities sponsored
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: the band. We have a ton of raffle prizes. It's
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: a silent, so you don't have to sit there and
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: listen to numbers being called out. It's a silent raffle.
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: Whoever the highest bidder is gets it. There's a lot
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: of restaurant gift certificates, a lot of bottles of wine.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to come tonight, drop off something for
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: your company so you can be promoted. There's going to
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: be 400 to 500 like-minded people at this party. It
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: will be a lot of fun. We will have a
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: great time. You'll have great food, great wine, great drinks.
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  Speaker 1: If more people would buy online, we would know how
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: many people will be there. which would help us with service,
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: but they're going to be fully staffed, and we're going
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: to hopefully do our best to make sure everybody has
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: an amazing experience. And you're not going to some dingy
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: hall for a fundraiser. You know, we're trying to, you know,
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: bring you to one of the best spots in Connecticut,
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: and they're tired of paying, you know, $ 30, 000 to $ 50, 000
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: a month for lights, and that has to go to
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: their guests.
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  Speaker 37: It's a beautiful venue there, beautiful venue, and.
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  Speaker 41: They do a nice job, and, you know.
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  Speaker 37: And part of what we were talking about earlier is how,
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  Speaker 37: you know, Ned Lamont and the Democrats get up there
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 37: and they talk about bringing tourism into the state. And
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 37: then they kill the tourists with taxes, left and right,
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 37: occupancy taxes. They've raised them over a year, over a year.
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 37: You as a jeweler should know this one. They put
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 37: a 7% tax on jewelry over $ 5, 000. So for young
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 37: people trying to get engaged and stuff like that, they
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 37: got to pay 7%. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So we have to buy it unassembled. So it helps
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: So we sell the setting as one item, and usually
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: that's under $ 5, 000, and then we sell the diamond, and
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: hopefully we can make the numbers work so you stay
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: under that $ 5, 000 number.
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 37: Oh, there you go.
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: So we sell it as two parts rather than one
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: piece just to help people out in the state of Connecticut.
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: Because the setting is completely different, or the mounting is
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: a completely different sale than the diamonds.
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 37: We found a way to throw the tea in the harbor.
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'd like to pour a lot of tea in
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: the river.
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  Speaker 37: Yes. We need more people throwing tea in the harbor.
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  Speaker 1: We have one minute, Amy. Anything else you'd like to
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: bring up?
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  Speaker 37: I just want to encourage people, you know, you've got
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 37: to bring someone to the polls with you, if it's
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 37: your child, if it's your spouse, if it's grandma, if
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 37: it's your neighbor. We really need a big turnout year.
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 37: You've got to bury the hatchet. We're asking people to
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 37: vote party lines. As a conservative, I don't often say
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 37: go bubble in the whole ticket across the ticket, you know,
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 37: bubble in who you believe in and all that.
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  Speaker 53: But this is a.
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  Speaker 37: Year that I firmly believe we need to vote Republican
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 37: across the ticket and turn out in high numbers. And
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 37: join my page. Follow me on Facebook. Keep the conversation
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 37: going as we zero in on Election Day. We need
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 37: to really be driving these issues of why Connecticut is
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 37: so unaffordable and how long it's been going on to
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 37: time it so that when people walk in to the polls,
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 37: they are, you know, they're ticked off. We want people
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 37: to be ticked off and take it out on the
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 37: ballot this year.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for your time this morning, Amy. This is
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  Speaker 8: I'm Sean Murphy.
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  Speaker 30: Becoming partly sunny today with a high around 70. Norwich
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  Speaker 8: It was not immediately clear if either faces charges.
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  Speaker 30: A judge ordered New London financial offender Stephen Gurney to
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  Speaker 30: pay nearly $ 588, 000 to his victims. He admitted violating probation
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  Speaker 30: Waterford and New London firefighters responded to an RV fire
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  Speaker 1: Hi, this is George Agnelli with 94 News Now, filling
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  Speaker 1: in for Lee Elsie this Monday. And I have one
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: of the best privileges as a new talk show host, part-time,
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: filling in for people. to bring you the gentleman that
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: is going to steer Connecticut in a completely different direction.
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: And even the polls are starting to show single digit
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: leads for Lamont as he backs off from doing. He
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: doesn't want to do too many debates and fighting to
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 1: get him near a debate. Bring to you Ryan Fazio
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  Speaker 1: for governor.
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  Speaker 41: George, good to be with you this morning.
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate this.
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 4: Well, we're crisscrossing the state, and as you kind of
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 4: led in with, we just saw a new poll that
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 4: found that the race is tightened to single digits. But
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 4: more importantly than that, that the governor's approval rating is
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 4: and remains below 50%, and the governor remains below 50%
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 4: in a two-way race. And that's a danger zone for
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 4: an incumbent because everyone knows who he is. He's been
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 4: on the job eight years. And it means that we
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 4: have a competitive race that's up for grabs. And we
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 4: need to fight every single day in order to get
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 4: to that 50% mark. People are ready for change. That's
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 4: what the polling is saying. That's what our progress is
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 4: saying on the ground.
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  Speaker 41: But we need to fight as.
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  Speaker 4: Hard as we can to cement that change over the
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  Speaker 4: next 45 days.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's no question. You know, I mean, I'm out talking.
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  Speaker 1: I'm out working. You know, owning a business is not
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 1: the best thing to do. But I ask one simple question.
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: Is your life better than it was eight years ago?
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: And nobody is giving me a yes answer. Has your
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: taxes gone down? Has your quality of life gone up?
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: And the answer is no and no. And as these
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 1: questions keep getting asked, they start looking at me. And
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: the next thing you know, they're starting to research you.
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 1: And then, you know, I have a lot of nurse
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: friends and a lot of them will be at the red,
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: white and blue party. You know, tonight we're going to
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: that party together and your lawn signs will be out.
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: It'll be a wonderful thing. And I know I noticed
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  Speaker 1: that you put a bill in that was going to
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 1: remove fees for nurses. It almost got passed, but it
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: didn't get passed. You want to talk a little bit
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: about that?
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a great example of, you know, a narrow
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 4: issue that's very important. So Connecticut charges licensing fees to
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 4: maybe 25 or 30 percent of its entire workforce and
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 4: forces them to pay a fee to the government to
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 4: renew their license just for the right to work every year.
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 4: And for some of our professions, those fees in Connecticut
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 4: are much higher than other states. I have every single
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 4: year proposed legislation to cut those licensing fees to zero
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 4: dollars or a maximum of a hundred dollars per year
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 4: for people who are licensed to work who are skilled
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 4: who want to contribute to our state.
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 41: Economy we should be rolling out the red.
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 4: Carpet for them we should not be forcing them to
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 4: pay a fee to the government just for the right
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 4: to work.
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  Speaker 41: Every single year but that's what we.
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  Speaker 4: Do in this state so i'm appreciative that some of
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 4: your nurse friends saw the bill that i i put
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 4: in uh in that case you know i i would
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 4: govern the same way that i carried myself in the legislature,
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 4: which is to be substantive, to focus on the issues,
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 4: to try to make people's lives better, and.
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 41: To work extraordinarily hard.
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 4: And I put in over 60 pieces of legislation in
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 4: the Senate every year, which I think is a little
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 4: more than most legislators. But I took my job seriously
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 4: in trying to propose everything under the sun that can
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 4: make people's lives better in this great state and it's
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 4: about time we had a governor who was on his
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 4: front foot and assertive and tried.
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  Speaker 1: To do the same right and you know i you
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: know i googled you and you have to turn in
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: your net worth you're an average guy with an above
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: average attitude towards fixing the state of connecticut and that's
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: a nice part you're not some billionaire coming in it's
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: going to help all your buddies make another billion or
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: another two billion or another three billion you're coming in
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: pretty much with a clean slate saying, hey, I'm the guy.
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 1: I'm just the guy for Connecticut. I'm going to be
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 1: your leader. And when you look at all the bills
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 1: you've proposed, a lot of them are all for the
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: basic average person.
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely. I think it's really the middle class that's
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 4: getting crushed in this state. If you're in one of
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 4: the positions or you work for one of the companies
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 4: that is supported by the government, you're going to be okay.
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 4: If you're extraordinarily wealthy, you might unfortunately move to a
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 4: different state, but you're going to be okay. But for
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 4: the people who are in the middle who have to
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 4: work for what they earn and pay taxes and follow
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 4: the rules, it's almost impossible to live in Connecticut prosperously.
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 4: And those are the types of people that are leaving
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 4: our state. And those people deserve better choices. And they
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 4: deserve better leadership. And they deserve someone in leadership who
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 4: understands that they deserve better and that Connecticut can do better.
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  Speaker 41: And that's why I'm running.
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  Speaker 1: And then the other thing we're doing is we're losing
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  Speaker 1: a lot of retirees that have that $ 100, 000 in income,
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 1: but it's only $ 64, 000 here when you take out taxes.
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 1: And when you go to other states, you know, like Florida,
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 1: that money becomes more like $ 85, 000. So you have $ 15, 000
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 1: or $ 20, 000 more to live on, the same amount of money.
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 1: And it's forcing their hand, especially with the utility rates
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: and all the different things that are happening in Connecticut.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's exactly right, isn't it? The taxes are middle-class taxes,
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 4: and they tax everything in this state. They tax everything
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 4: under the sun. But to your point, it's exactly that
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 4: type of person.
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  Speaker 41: I saw a study a few years ago that said that.
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  Speaker 4: The average income of the average person who is moving
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 4: out of Connecticut is like $ 120, 000, $ 130, 000 per year. So
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 4: it's a little higher than the average income in our state.
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 4: Those people are working hard. They're... They're paying their taxes.
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 4: They're the people you want to stay in this state,
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 4: and you need to stay in this state in order
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 4: for our economy to grow. But it's exactly those people
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 4: that under Governor Lamont have been pushed out and are.
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 31: Really, really hurting.
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  Speaker 41: So we need an eye to policies that will improve
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 41: their lives, that will make it easier for them to
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 41: raise a family here, that will make it enticing for
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 41: them to retire here, and that will reward work. And
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 41: we're going to do everything.
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  Speaker 4: We can to make that happen. This week we're going
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 4: to release a tax cut plan that will cut their
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 4: taxes by thousands of dollars. We're going to cut their
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 4: electric bills by 20 percent. We're going to cut the
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 4: cap their property taxes. And we're going to bring common
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 4: sense back to state government so that we don't see
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 4: corruption run wild and we don't see a party in
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 4: power that only runs to the far left. That's what
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 4: we've seen under Governor Lamont. But it's hurting the middle
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 4: class and it's pushing people out of our state and
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 4: it needs to end.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, there's absolutely no question about it. And do you
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: want to talk a little bit about the gas line
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania? And we're buying our gas from foreign countries.
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 1: You know, if we ever went to war or there
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: was ever an issue in their country, we'd be in trouble.
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: What are your comments about that?
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  Speaker 4: So for your listeners, natural gas is the most important.
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 4: It's the largest.
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 41: Share of all the the base load.
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 4: Electricity production in our state, followed by nuclear, and after
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 4: that it's probably solar. But there is a bottleneck in
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 4: natural gas supply in that our natural gas pipelines, our
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 4: existing natural gas pipelines, which come across New York from
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 4: Pennsylvania where the natural gas is.
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 41: Produced, is at a limit. So we can't really.
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 4: Take in any more when the demand is high. But
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 4: there's been proposals from companies to expand or build a
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 4: new natural gas pipeline, which one study from Standard & Poor's,
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 4: the famous research company, said would lower our energy costs
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 4: in New England by billions of dollars into the future.
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 4: The problem is that.
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  Speaker 41: The state of New York has up until.
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 4: Now basically tried to block it. The problem is that
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 4: New York has also approved natural gas pipeline expansions going
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 4: into their state. So we have a clear case, I think,
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 4: of New York basically violating the rights of our state, Connecticut,
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 4: and New England states writ large by doing something that
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 4: clearly is meant to punish Connecticut when they're doing the
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 4: same exact thing. They're approving of the same exact thing
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 4: that's helping themselves.
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 41: That's a violation of the U.S.
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 4: Constitution under the Interstate Commerce Clause. The governor of Connecticut
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 4: has a responsibility to protect Connecticut residents to fight for affordability,
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 4: but also to protect their rights under the U.S. Constitution
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 4: and the Interstate Commerce Clause. The problem is that the
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 4: governor has not taken a single official step to criticize
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 4: or to negate what Kathy Hochul in the state of
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 4: New York is doing to Connecticut residents. Governor Hochul, the
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 4: state of New York are essentially raising Connecticut's energy costs
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 4: by billions of dollars into the future. And there has
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 4: been no steps taken by this governor to fight for Connecticut.
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 4: I would not only immediately intervene in the federal process,
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 4: the regulatory process to try to get new energy capacity
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 4: approved into Connecticut, but I would be prepared for the
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 4: state of Connecticut to sue the state of New York.
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 4: And part of the reason not only is that we
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 4: have the good case, we have the right case on
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 4: our side. But if one state is in a lawsuit
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 4: with another under the U.S. Constitution, it has to be
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 4: resolved directly, immediately by the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 41: So this is not some lawsuit, some litigation that.
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 4: Would take years and years to resolve. It could potentially
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 4: get resolved very quickly, and I think the facts are
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 4: on our side.
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  Speaker 31: And more importantly, if we.
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 4: Have a governor who's fighting for Connecticut, we could see
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 4: billions of dollars in lower energy.
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 6: Costs in the future.
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and what most people don't realize is that 38%
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: of our electricity is produced by natural gas creating it.
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 1: And so if you can reduce the cost of natural
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 1: gas by 30%, It will not only help schools and
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: towns and budgets and large manufacturers, it's going to help
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: everybody in the state of Connecticut. That's why it's a
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: billion-dollar issue, because we'll bring down the light bills and
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 1: the gas bills all in one shot with a simple pipeline.
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 6: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: If you use math, you know, 38% times 30%, you're
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 4: reducing the total electricity bill by more than 10% if
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 4: you can substantially lower the cost of natural gas. And
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 4: the times when the natural gas prices get really expensive
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 4: and that we're having to pay for it are in
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 4: the winter and in the summer when people are using
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 4: the most energy.
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 41: So you see the.
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 4: Natural gas price go up, you know, sometimes 300, 400
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 4: percent in Connecticut because we just don't have enough capacity.
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 4: But there's plenty of gas in Pennsylvania. We're just not
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 4: bringing enough to Connecticut. I mean, again, these are the existential,
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 4: you know, highest order importance issues for the governor of
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 4: Connecticut to deal with. But this governor is basically asleep
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 4: at the wheel. He's stuck in neutral at best.
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 17: But.
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 4: If he is to make Connecticut's economy work in the future,
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 4: this is an issue that needs to be solved. And
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 4: if you have eight years to do it and you
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 4: don't do it, you know, time's up.
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no question. He's not going to do anything
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: for that. He's just he's not interested. If he was interested,
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: he'd be doing it. But he's going to get your
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 1: deep boots out, like get your waders to go all
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: the way up to your neck. Like if you were
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 1: fishing in the river just past Springfield, once they let
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 1: all the pollution down our river. he's going to have
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 1: a nuclear summit on the 28th with the other Democratic
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 1: governors to talk about how they're going to expand nuclear power.
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: Isn't it funny he's doing it like five weeks before
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 1: the election, and as of six months ago, he wanted
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: to phase out nuclear power?
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and listen, there's been no stronger voice in defense
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 4: of the nuclear industry, nuclear power, than I have been
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 4: as a state senator, and I've pushed— the legislature to
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 4: pass legislation that would be supportive of expanded nuclear capacity.
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 4: You know, the governor hasn't been horrible on this issue
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 4: in particular, but when nuclear wasn't as popular a couple
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 4: of years ago, the governor was basically saying it's Republicans
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 4: who are pushing nuclear in the state. And now all
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 4: of a sudden he wants to take credit for it.
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 8: So he's got to.
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 4: Keep his story straight. The governor seems to be a
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 4: friend of nuclear, but, you know, he was criticizing Republicans
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 4: for supporting it just a couple of years ago. We
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 4: need someone who's going to keep their story straight at
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 4: the helm.
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 1: Well, here's the problem is a 330 Channel 8. They'll
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 1: do big stories about this nuclear summit, but they're not
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: going to produce the truth. That's the biggest problem. He's
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: doing it as a political grandstand. That's all it really
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 1: is because nothing's going to happen. And nothing's going to
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 1: happen in the future because he's already showing you what
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: he expects. He says, oh, you guys can just afford
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 1: to pay a little bit more. Ah, you can just
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 1: pay a little bit more. Not a big deal.
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 4: Then there's nothing actionable there. You know, they could do
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 4: a summit. They could do a meeting. They could talk
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 4: about what policies and make things better versus worse. But
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 4: It's probably not going to affect power prices in 10 years,
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 4: anything they're talking about there, whereas fighting New York to
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 4: expand natural gas capacity, whereas reducing the hidden taxes and
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 4: fees in your electric bill, you could get actionable improvement.
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 1: You could get.
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 4: Lower energy costs pretty quickly. If you start dealing with
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 4: some of these hidden taxes and fees, you could provide
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 4: energy relief immediately. The governor has that option. He's not
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 4: undertaking it because it doesn't fit kind of his ideological
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 4: worldview where the government should be imposing all these taxes
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 4: and fees on the middle class in order to fund
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 4: whatever kind of grand schemes they have. But Connecticut has
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 4: tried that over and over again, and the consequences that
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 4: we live in one of the highest taxed, most unaffordable
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 4: states in the country. And it's about time we change direction.
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 4: That's the only way we can start to make the
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 4: state affordable and bring opportunity back.
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 1: I'm hoping for my kids and my future grandkids so
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 1: that they'll stay in the state of Connecticut, that you
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 1: can do this, because this is really an important issue.
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: Everything's an important issue. We're just so far to the
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 1: wrong in the state of Connecticut. And, you know, our
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 1: attorney general, I know they're saying now has sued Trump
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 1: 70 times. I mean, how much money have we spent
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 1: on lawsuits? And, you know, he says his DTS is.
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 1: 12 on a 1 to 10 scale. He called it
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 1: a 12 on Gary's show. And when you look at
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 1: these things and how much money we're spending on frivolous lawsuits,
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: we're not paying attention to all the nonprofits that are
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 1: just burning through state money, and it's not going to
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 1: the people it's supposed to go to.
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 9: Oh, yeah.
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 4: That's exactly right. Listen, I can't understand why the governor
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 4: hasn't been running for a third term. He hasn't said
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 4: what he's going to try to accomplish, what relief he
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 4: would provide citizens. Everyone in the state understands that it's
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 4: too high tax, that there's too much corruption and that
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 4: we're paying for it, that there's too much power held
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 4: in the hands of bureaucrats and politicians in the state capitol.
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 4: But there is absolutely no plan, no vision for this
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 4: governor to improve things, to bring opportunity back to our state,
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 4: to provide relief to our residents. There's no promise. There's
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 4: no ambition for a third term here. I guess it's
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 4: just more of the same. That's one of the things
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 4: that on a human level, you know, away from the
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 4: campaign trail, I can't really understand. I don't really understand
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 4: what the governor wants to do with the third term,
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 4: what he thinks he can make better with the third term,
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 4: you know, what he's actually trying to deliver to people.
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 4: It's just more of the same.
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 1: Well, I think he needs a third term to cover,
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 1: to figure out how to make things disappear that he
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 1: did in the first and second term for his record.
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 1: You know, when you look at Des Montes, you look
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 1: at New Beginnings, you look at McCrory, the senator out
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 1: of Bloomfield, that he didn't even sanction the gentleman for
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 1: misappropriating state funds, and he's in a federal indictment. He
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 1: didn't even come out and make a statement about it.
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 1: He let him keep all his leadership roles and everything else.
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 1: He didn't say, oh, hey, I think it's time you
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 1: step down. I think it's time you do something different.
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 1: And he knew the corruption's going on. He knew the
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 1: corruption was— he had a letter saying that we should stop
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 1: giving New Beginnings— and now the state has had to
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 1: get involved, and they were giving money to pay people's
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 1: light bills, and they gave them a check for like $ 1. 5
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 1: million for $ 1. 2 million in light bills, and then they
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 1: bounced the check to the light company, and that's when
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 1: finally somebody actually had to do something about it. And
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 1: for eight years, auditors were telling him, hey, you've got
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 1: problems here.
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 49: Yeah.
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 4: The level of corruption that's proliferated under this governor's You know,
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 4: eventually the people in charge have to take responsibility. And
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 4: it's because this governor has an entirely laissez-faire attitude towards
• 2:14:52
  Speaker 4: the goings-on in government and what has become a very
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 4: corrupt state government. You know, there are people in the
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 4: leadership of this state who, you know, gain profit from
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 4: their power. And that should never be what government is.
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 4: But it has been for far too long in this state.
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 4: And the governor's in charge. The governor has responsibility. The
• 2:15:14
  Speaker 4: buck doesn't stop somewhere else. The buck stops with the governor.
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 4: And so, you know, when Doug McCrory, a state senator,
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 4: you know, is being actively investigated by the federal government
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 4: for potentially stealing millions of dollars, the governor's attitude is
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 4: kind of hands off when, you know, it's brought up that,
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 4: Costa Diamantis, who is convicted of bribery charges at the
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 4: federal level, was promoted and only put in that position
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 4: because Governor Lamont gave him a promotion. You know, there's
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 4: not an accounting for, you know, whether he's responsible or
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 4: why he gave him a promotion in the first place.
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 4: You know, there's been, I think, over a half dozen
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 4: senior Democratic officials in state government arrested since Governor Lamont
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 4: has been in office. And That just signals to me
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 4: that there's a culture of tolerance of corruption and that
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 4: there isn't zero tolerance. There isn't high standards and accountability
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 4: for people and their allies in state government. We need
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 4: to have a zero tolerance approach. We need to have
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 4: a governor who's willing to call out a Democrat or
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 4: a Republican when they take advantage of the public trust.
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 4: Nobody is above reproach. In my eyes, everyone should be
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 4: held to the same standard, and we need to have
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 4: the highest of standards for people in leadership in this state.
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 1: I 100% agree with you. I mean, if you look
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 1: at we have a CCSU president that they hired that
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 1: was supposed to move here. And they fired him because
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 1: he was using a company credit card like it was
• 2:16:49
  Speaker 1: his own state credit card, like his own personal. And
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 1: he never moved to the state of Connecticut. Yet we're
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 1: still paying him a half a million dollars a year
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 1: plus benefits to stay in the state of New York.
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 1: Why is he getting paid? He violated the contract. You know,
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, again. This all goes to– and I know
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 1: it's only a half a million dollars when you look
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 1: at the time, but it's a half a million here.
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 1: It's a million and a half over here. It's a
• 2:17:10
  Speaker 1: million over there. It's a million– next thing you know,
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 1: it's $ 40, $ 50, $ 60 million that could have really gone
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 1: to the good of the people, the citizens of the
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 1: United States and the citizens of Connecticut who they swore
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 1: to take an oath for that they said that they're
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 1: there to protect the citizens. And unfortunately, they're not protecting us.
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 1: They're not even looking out for us. And they're like, oh,
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 1: that's just small potatoes. That's just small potatoes. That's just
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 1: small potatoes. Well, pretty soon you're going to need a
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 1: small potato bowl the size of New Haven for all
• 2:17:40
  Speaker 1: these small potatoes that they have going wrong.
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's, you know, for people listening to George,
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 4: that is actually what the governor, said. The governor called
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 4: the corruption small ball, you know, that it wasn't that important.
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 4: But I think the public trust is enormously important. And,
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  Speaker 1: bringing you the next governor of the state of Connecticut
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  Speaker 1: left and I there's just so much corruption to talk
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  Speaker 1: about with this governor. We're going to talk about it
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  Speaker 1: for a few minutes more and then we're going to
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  Speaker 1: go into what Ryan's going to do for us as
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  Speaker 1: the state of Connecticut and the promises he's making to you. Ryan,
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  Speaker 1: we're paying two or three, maybe four presidents, who knows,
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  Speaker 1: of CCSU, and I think the number's like $ 1. 2 million
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  Speaker 1: a year plus benefits, and they no longer work for
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  Speaker 1: us because of either a sexual harassment lawsuit or using
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  Speaker 1: our government credit card to buy stakes and airline tickets
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  Speaker 1: and everything else, and they're making a half a million
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  Speaker 1: dollars a year.
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  Speaker 18: What is it?
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, what does it say to taxpayers? What does it
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  Speaker 4: say to other public employees that you could be engaged
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  Speaker 4: in stealing money from the state and using your public
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  Speaker 4: credit cards for personal items, for accused of credibly mistreating
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  Speaker 4: your employees, and as a consequence, you end up with
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  Speaker 4: a golden parachute, hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay
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  Speaker 4: without any responsibilities. There's never going to be accountability in
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  Speaker 4: state government if that level of corruption is allowed to persist.
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  Speaker 4: And yet it has been allowed to persist under this governor.
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  Speaker 41: That's why I say that we're paying.
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  Speaker 4: A corruption tax in the state of Connecticut, where with
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  Speaker 4: all the corruption that's condoned, with all the misbehavior that
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  Speaker 4: is allowed to continue without any.
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  Speaker 41: Sort of.
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  Speaker 4: Negative consequences for the perpetrators, you can expect that services
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  Speaker 4: at the state level will be diminished and that the
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  Speaker 4: cost to the taxpayer will continue to increase. It's common sense,
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  Speaker 4: and yet the governor, by being asleep at the wheel,
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  Speaker 4: is basically diminishing your level of services and increasing the
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  Speaker 4: taxes that you have to pay. You know, when a
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  Speaker 4: guy who's getting paid $ 400, 000, like Chancellor Chang was, can
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  Speaker 4: spend tens of thousands of dollars on steak and entertainment
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  Speaker 4: and other personal spending, and then as a consequence gets
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  Speaker 4: to sit in an office for the next two years
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  Speaker 4: without any real work and continues to get paid $ 400, 000,
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  Speaker 4: the fact that you wouldn't just fire someone like that
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  Speaker 4: out of hand is just such malpractice on the part
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  Speaker 4: of the governor and the leadership of the state government
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  Speaker 4: that no wonder we continue to see instances of corruption.
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  Speaker 4: Because no one is being held accountable to the point
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  Speaker 4: that they should.
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  Speaker 1: And then the other thing is that his contract specifically
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  Speaker 1: states he must move to Connecticut for this job. And
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  Speaker 1: he's not even, as far as I know and what
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  Speaker 1: I can do the research, he's not even, he's still
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  Speaker 1: a New York resident paying New York taxes with our money.
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  Speaker 4: Remember, he was tasked, after he was relieved of his
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  Speaker 4: duties as chancellor and he was put into that rubber
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  Speaker 4: room where he would get paid $ 400, 000 per year. He
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  Speaker 4: was given one task, which was write a review of
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 4: how the university operates and how it should operate, as
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  Speaker 4: this guy would be a credible source into answering those questions.
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  Speaker 4: It was a 1,000-page report that was found to be
• 2:31:19
  Speaker 4: mostly done with AI, and he spent most of his time,
• 2:31:24
  Speaker 4: according to FOIs of his own email account, looking for
• 2:31:28
  Speaker 4: other jobs. He couldn't be fired for cause. We couldn't
• 2:31:32
  Speaker 4: stop payment. I mean, the state of Connecticut's taxpayers are
• 2:31:35
  Speaker 4: forced to pay this guy sitting in a room looking
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 4: for other work and asking AI to generate all of
• 2:31:42
  Speaker 4: his homework. It's an absolute joke. It sounds like I'm
• 2:31:46
  Speaker 4: making it up.
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  Speaker 41: But this has kind of become commonplace.
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  Speaker 4: Under Governor Lamont in Connecticut. He isn't holding people who
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  Speaker 4: are bad actors accountable. And what's that do to the
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 4: state workers, the state employees who are good actors who
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  Speaker 4: want to contribute? It demoralizes them more than anyone else.
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  Speaker 4: This is just a crisis of leadership that we face
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  Speaker 4: in this state. The fish are out from the head,
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  Speaker 4: and that's exactly what we're seeing now.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean, you look at some of the
• 2:32:10
  Speaker 1: things that are out there, and it says 40% of
• 2:32:13
  Speaker 1: the state's programs or budgets, you know, like Department of Education,
• 2:32:19
  Speaker 1: hasn't turned in an audit in 15 years. We don't
• 2:32:22
  Speaker 1: know where the computers are, the smart cards are. They
• 2:32:24
  Speaker 1: might be in Tennessee, for all we know. And as
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  Speaker 1: you look at these audits that aren't being done, you
• 2:32:30
  Speaker 1: wonder if somebody ever actually looks at the credit cards
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  Speaker 1: they're paying, or do they just pay it? When's the
• 2:32:35
  Speaker 1: last time personal state credit cards have been audited to
• 2:32:39
  Speaker 1: make sure there's not personal stuff on there? I mean,
• 2:32:43
  Speaker 1: if he's getting away with it, everybody's getting away with it.
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  Speaker 4: There are many more people getting away with it. Exactly right.
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 4: And there's just, you know, the lights are on, but
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 4: there's no one home. You know, Department of Education hasn't
• 2:32:56
  Speaker 4: performed an audit in over a decade. You know, what
• 2:32:58
  Speaker 4: is the Department of Education doing?
• 2:33:00
  Speaker 41: Because we've actually seen them make, you know, decisions.
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 4: That restrict the ability of students to access a great
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 4: education system. They've been engaged in trying to regulate homeschoolers
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  Speaker 4: Department of Education to have a mission to improve outcomes
• 2:33:18
  Speaker 4: for students. And you've actually seen test scores fall overall
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 4: since Governor Lamont has been in charge of the state government.
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 4: So what are these people doing if they're not at
• 2:33:27
  Speaker 4: least auditing themselves and protecting taxpayers? Because I don't see
• 2:33:31
  Speaker 4: any other leadership coming out of so many of these departments. Again,
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 4: there is just a total vacuum of leadership here. in
• 2:33:37
  Speaker 4: the state of Connecticut and the state government. There is
• 2:33:40
  Speaker 4: no mission to significantly improve services or reduce costs. And
• 2:33:46
  Speaker 4: that's why you see the Chancellor Chang scandals of the
• 2:33:49
  Speaker 4: world proliferate with little to no consequence for the perpetrators.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they also, you know, I was reading an article
• 2:33:56
  Speaker 1: the other day that says of the $ 8 billion of
• 2:34:01
  Speaker 1: things that we've purchased, 2.8 billion of them are not
• 2:34:04
  Speaker 1: accounted for, cars, vehicles, trucks, you know, because these audits
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• 2:34:12
  Speaker 1: computers are or they're being bought, if they're even going
• 2:34:15
  Speaker 1: to where they're supposed to go, because there's no audit
• 2:34:17
  Speaker 1: to tell us, yes, we bought 33 computers for this
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 1: office and they have 25. Well, what happened to eight
• 2:34:25
  Speaker 1: of them? Did the 33 even go to that or
• 2:34:29
  Speaker 1: were they sold on a black market? We have no auditing.
• 2:34:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, we have a governor that is just completely clueless,
• 2:34:36
  Speaker 1: and then he keeps saying, it's small ball, it's small ball,
• 2:34:39
  Speaker 1: it's small ball. Well, that small ball is adding up
• 2:34:42
  Speaker 1: to about 150 runs. That's exactly right.
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 4: The small ball continues to add up to the point
• 2:34:50
  Speaker 4: that we have the highest taxes in the country, that
• 2:34:53
  Speaker 4: we see so much... corruption in the news, that we're
• 2:34:57
  Speaker 4: becoming numb to it. But we shouldn't become numb to it.
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 4: We should have higher expectations in this for our great state.
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  Speaker 4: And we should just simply not settle for, you know,
• 2:35:07
  Speaker 4: corruption scandal after corruption scandal. I mean, the guy who
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 4: fled to Greece was only put in a position of
• 2:35:16
  Speaker 4: power and influence over hundreds of millions of dollars of
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 4: state spending because the governor gave him a promotion. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's not like this guy, you know, appeared.
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  Speaker 41: Out of thin air in the state government.
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  Speaker 4: steal money from the taxpayer. Again, there's, you know, if
• 2:35:39
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  Speaker 4: could call it a small ball, but when you're talking
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 4: about instance after instance, hundreds or tens of millions of
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 4: dollars stolen from the taxpayer, This is adding up to
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  Speaker 4: a trend that is flourishing under this governor's watch.
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  Speaker 1: I believe, and I'm not sure if I'm– because we
• 2:36:02
  Speaker 1: don't talk before we go. The knowledge you have is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: There was another senator or house member that steered millions
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 1: of dollars to some nonprofits, and then he was the
• 2:36:17
  Speaker 1: only contractor– doing the cleaning and the landscaping of these
• 2:36:21
  Speaker 1: companies for like $ 800, 000, and there was no competitive bid.
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  Speaker 1: And I can't remember the gentleman's name. And there was
• 2:36:27
  Speaker 1: no competitive bid, but yet he's using his power as
• 2:36:30
  Speaker 1: a legislator to steer money to these companies. And then
• 2:36:33
  Speaker 1: the two companies that he set up don't even have
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 1: websites that they offer services to anyone else. And I
• 2:36:41
  Speaker 1: don't know if you know about that, but I think
• 2:36:43
  Speaker 1: that was breaking about a week ago. They were going
• 2:36:45
  Speaker 1: to start talking about it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I don't remember exactly which one that is
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  Speaker 4: because I can't even keep track of all the instances
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  Speaker 4: of corruption in our state government. And if you had
• 2:36:54
  Speaker 4: a case like that, you know, it should be the
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 4: top priority of the state government to make sure that
• 2:37:00
  Speaker 4: the state government is beyond reproach. The governor should say,
• 2:37:05
  Speaker 4: I don't know exactly what's happening here, but we should
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  Speaker 4: get to the bottom of it. Instead, this is an
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  Speaker 4: instance because you're dealing with a Democratic official where they're
• 2:37:13
  Speaker 4: going to want it ignored. They're not going to want
• 2:37:15
  Speaker 4: to confront it.
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  Speaker 41: But, you know... I don't know why you would want to.
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  Speaker 4: Be governor if you are not going to assertively try
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  Speaker 4: to act in the public's interest and improve the services
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  Speaker 4: and the integrity of our state government, which is so important.
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  Speaker 15: Lacking.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we have, you know, there's Republican legislators who,
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  Speaker 4: if they, through their work for a company, you know,
• 2:37:40
  Speaker 4: see a potential conflict of interest, not even a conflict
• 2:37:42
  Speaker 4: of interest in casting a single vote, they will recuse
• 2:37:46
  Speaker 4: themselves from voting voting. But on the Democratic side, you
• 2:37:50
  Speaker 4: have people in charge of, you know, the unions whose
• 2:37:54
  Speaker 4: contracts come up for a vote, and they vote on
• 2:37:57
  Speaker 4: the bill despite the conflict of interest. Whether you're for
• 2:38:00
  Speaker 4: or against the actual policy, it shouldn't matter. You should
• 2:38:04
  Speaker 4: want to be above reproach in any way and to
• 2:38:07
  Speaker 4: have total, you know, total removal from any conflict of
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  Speaker 4: interest And yet it's almost a thumb in the eye
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  Speaker 4: of the taxpayer in this state that the people in
• 2:38:20
  Speaker 4: charge of our state government are willing to blatantly and
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  Speaker 4: flagrantly act in a way that is, I would say,
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  Speaker 4: compromised at best.
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, the same thing. A different lifetime ago,
• 2:38:34
  Speaker 1: I was on the city council in East Hartford back
• 2:38:37
  Speaker 1: in the early 90s. And I had a very good
• 2:38:40
  Speaker 1: rapport with the manager of the Showcase Cinemas. And before
• 2:38:45
  Speaker 1: I was in office, he always would say, hey, come
• 2:38:47
  Speaker 1: see this show, come see this show, come see this show.
• 2:38:49
  Speaker 1: And after office, he goes, hey, come see this show.
• 2:38:51
  Speaker 1: I said, only if I pay, because I can't go
• 2:38:54
  Speaker 1: and do something for free when you're in our tax
• 2:38:56
  Speaker 1: base and somewhere where I could be voting on legislation
• 2:39:00
  Speaker 1: for you. And that's something you have to hold. You
• 2:39:02
  Speaker 1: have to hold yourself accountable first. You have to have
• 2:39:04
  Speaker 1: respect for yourself and when you don't have respect for
• 2:39:08
  Speaker 1: the people around you and the people that are the
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 1: ones that are actually electing you, this will happen. There's
• 2:39:15
  Speaker 1: so much corruption circling over this governor's head. And I
• 2:39:20
  Speaker 1: don't want to call out my former other or other
• 2:39:23
  Speaker 1: talk shows, but if any of these investigative reporters started
• 2:39:27
  Speaker 1: really investigating this stuff, you would fall off your chair
• 2:39:30
  Speaker 1: what they would really find the amount of, things that
• 2:39:33
  Speaker 1: are wrong and i just how about just audit the
• 2:39:35
  Speaker 1: credit cards how about saying well hey if if the
• 2:39:38
  Speaker 1: chancellor's doing wrong with a credit card why a chancellor
• 2:39:40
  Speaker 1: has a credit card he's not supposed to be handling
• 2:39:42
  Speaker 1: money uh for for he shouldn't even be in charge
• 2:39:45
  Speaker 1: of money for this he's supposed to be there to
• 2:39:47
  Speaker 1: run the college to make it the best college possible
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  Speaker 1: not to have it why does he have a credit
• 2:39:52
  Speaker 1: card that's what i that's what i can't even understand
• 2:39:55
  Speaker 1: you know doesn't he have a controller doesn't isn't there
• 2:39:58
  Speaker 1: isn't there an accounting firm that handles it isn't there
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  Speaker 1: a You know, somebody in the state college system that's
• 2:40:04
  Speaker 1: handling the money in and out?
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  Speaker 4: You'd think the comptroller would be in charge of that, but,
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  Speaker 4: you know, any executive in business that I've dealt with,
• 2:40:15
  Speaker 4: you front purchases if there's travel or anything like that,
• 2:40:20
  Speaker 4: and you get reimbursed for it. You don't have your
• 2:40:22
  Speaker 4: own credit card. Only someone who's involved in kind of
• 2:40:26
  Speaker 4: the day-to-day purchasing for a department for an organization would
• 2:40:30
  Speaker 4: have a credit card. for that organization. The executive, the
• 2:40:36
  Speaker 4: management of that organization should not have a credit card
• 2:40:39
  Speaker 4: because it's ripe for abuse. But we've never had a
• 2:40:41
  Speaker 4: policy on these things at the state level. As you said,
• 2:40:45
  Speaker 4: when you go into these offices, you need a mindset.
• 2:40:48
  Speaker 4: You need to tell yourself ahead of time that I
• 2:40:50
  Speaker 4: am here to help the public. I'm not here to
• 2:40:52
  Speaker 4: serve myself. But clearly that is not a mindset that
• 2:40:57
  Speaker 4: permeates the leadership of the state government where they remind
• 2:41:01
  Speaker 4: themselves every day. They know why they're there, and they're
• 2:41:03
  Speaker 4: there to serve others, not serve themselves.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: No, I once sold a building in East Hartford, and
• 2:41:10
  Speaker 1: it had some office building, state of Connecticut employees. And
• 2:41:14
  Speaker 1: I went in, you know, I'm showing the space. It
• 2:41:17
  Speaker 1: had like 33 employees. There was a girl there answering
• 2:41:20
  Speaker 1: the phone. There was never, every time I showed that building,
• 2:41:23
  Speaker 1: there was never one person. And she goes, oh, everybody
• 2:41:25
  Speaker 1: works from home. I said, what do you mean everybody
• 2:41:28
  Speaker 1: works from home? I mean, it just doesn't make any
• 2:41:31
  Speaker 1: sense that everybody's working from home in an office. How
• 2:41:33
  Speaker 1: are you getting anything done? How are you talking to
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 1: your neighbor next door in the cubicle to say, hey,
• 2:41:40
  Speaker 1: I got this issue. How would you handle it? Or
• 2:41:42
  Speaker 1: how would you make it better? I don't think those
• 2:41:45
  Speaker 1: people even worked for the state of Connecticut. They were
• 2:41:47
  Speaker 1: just doing other jobs and just not being there, doing
• 2:41:51
  Speaker 1: other work on their time. It was just craziness.
• 2:41:56
  Speaker 4: No, and the fact that so many of the public
• 2:41:59
  Speaker 4: employees are only having to work one day a week
• 2:42:02
  Speaker 4: in person from the office, you know, on top of
• 2:42:05
  Speaker 4: getting four and a half percent raises year over year.
• 2:42:07
  Speaker 4: You know, there needs to be some standards and some
• 2:42:10
  Speaker 4: accountability and you just simply cannot deliver the highest quality
• 2:42:14
  Speaker 4: of product while being in an office, you know, just
• 2:42:17
  Speaker 4: one day per week. Younger employees cannot build their skills
• 2:42:21
  Speaker 4: and teams cannot develop if you're in the office one.
• 2:42:23
  Speaker 41: Day per week, you know, Guess what?
• 2:42:26
  Speaker 4: This is also a matter of life and death because
• 2:42:29
  Speaker 4: the Department of Child and Family Services, you know, has
• 2:42:32
  Speaker 4: presided over the deaths of over 20 children over just
• 2:42:35
  Speaker 4: the last couple of years. And their workers are, in
• 2:42:39
  Speaker 4: many cases, just required to be in person talking about
• 2:42:42
  Speaker 4: these important issues, coordinating about these important issues only one
• 2:42:45
  Speaker 4: day per week. You know, this is just not acceptable.
• 2:42:49
  Speaker 4: But this is symptomatic of a governor... Vermont administration that
• 2:42:54
  Speaker 4: just is absent from providing leadership and vision and accountability
• 2:42:58
  Speaker 4: to our own state government.
• 2:43:00
  Speaker 1: We're getting down to our last like six minutes before
• 2:43:02
  Speaker 1: we have to go to commercial break and they're going
• 2:43:04
  Speaker 1: to kick me off the radio, although I could stay
• 2:43:06
  Speaker 1: all day if they would allow me. We're going to
• 2:43:10
  Speaker 1: see you tonight, the red, white, and blue. We're going
• 2:43:12
  Speaker 1: to have lawn signs there. Your campaign manager said she
• 2:43:15
  Speaker 1: will have plenty of lawn signs if anybody wants to
• 2:43:17
  Speaker 1: come by. And if you don't want to come to
• 2:43:18
  Speaker 1: the event and you want to pick up a lawn sign,
• 2:43:20
  Speaker 1: we'll be at the red, white, and blue party at
• 2:43:22
  Speaker 1: Water's Edge at 1525 Boston Post Road. And Gary and
• 2:43:27
  Speaker 1: I and Lee run this party, and we're actually going
• 2:43:29
  Speaker 1: to let Ryan have a microphone for 10 minutes and
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 1: break our rules on speaking because we just feel this
• 2:43:34
  Speaker 1: election is so important. let's take the next seven or
• 2:43:38
  Speaker 1: eight minutes or whatever we have left and talk about
• 2:43:40
  Speaker 1: all the positive things you're going to do for the
• 2:43:42
  Speaker 1: people of the state of Connecticut.
• 2:43:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I appreciate that, George, because we spend a
• 2:43:48
  Speaker 4: lot of the time criticizing the leadership of this governor,
• 2:43:51
  Speaker 4: and it's valid because the governor has allowed corruption to
• 2:43:54
  Speaker 4: run rampant, and he's raised costs and made Connecticut one
• 2:43:57
  Speaker 4: of the most unaffordable states. states in the entire country.
• 2:44:00
  Speaker 4: But we also need leadership that is going to provide
• 2:44:03
  Speaker 4: vision and an actual path to a better future in
• 2:44:07
  Speaker 4: the state. So first and foremost, I'm going to deliver
• 2:44:10
  Speaker 4: the largest middle class tax cut in state history. We're
• 2:44:13
  Speaker 4: going to cut taxes by thousands of dollars to the
• 2:44:16
  Speaker 4: average family in my first term. That can be done
• 2:44:20
  Speaker 4: by reducing wasteful spending and politically ideologically oriented spending, like
• 2:44:25
  Speaker 4: taxpayer benefits for people who aren't in the like over-budgeting
• 2:44:31
  Speaker 4: for various government departments and more. We're going to reduce
• 2:44:35
  Speaker 4: the general growth rate of government spending because government shouldn't
• 2:44:38
  Speaker 4: be growing faster than people's paychecks are growing or faster
• 2:44:42
  Speaker 4: than inflation is growing. And finally, we need to reduce
• 2:44:45
  Speaker 4: the special interest carve-outs in the tax code. Everything from
• 2:44:49
  Speaker 4: special tax exemptions that the governor supported for data centers
• 2:44:53
  Speaker 4: and more.
• 2:44:53
  Speaker 6: If we do those things, we.
• 2:44:55
  Speaker 4: Can provide billions of dollars of tax relief the middle-class
• 2:44:58
  Speaker 4: families who are struggling in this state and deserve real
• 2:45:02
  Speaker 4: long-term tax relief. Second, we're going to cap property taxes
• 2:45:06
  Speaker 4: in the state, stop them from spiraling out of control
• 2:45:09
  Speaker 4: as they have. We can do that by eliminating hundreds
• 2:45:12
  Speaker 4: of the unfunded state mandates on our towns and cities
• 2:45:16
  Speaker 4: that the state has imposed. These unfunded mandates are, you know,
• 2:45:21
  Speaker 4: there's so many of them, it's literally death by a
• 2:45:24
  Speaker 4: thousand paper cuts, but basically it's instances of the state
• 2:45:27
  Speaker 4: government telling towns and cities what they need to do
• 2:45:31
  Speaker 4: without giving them the funding to do it. And that's
• 2:45:33
  Speaker 4: what causes your property taxes to go up. And this
• 2:45:36
  Speaker 4: governor has signed into law over 100 new laws that
• 2:45:40
  Speaker 4: increase the number of those unfunded mandates even more, forcing
• 2:45:43
  Speaker 4: towns to raise your property taxes. That's a problem. We
• 2:45:47
  Speaker 4: will end hundreds of those unfunded mandates to ensure that
• 2:45:50
  Speaker 4: towns have their reasonable, predictable share of funding and cap
• 2:45:55
  Speaker 4: property taxes into the future. We're going to cut electric
• 2:45:59
  Speaker 4: bills by 20% by eliminating every hidden tax and fee
• 2:46:03
  Speaker 4: in those electric bills and bringing in new forms of
• 2:46:06
  Speaker 4: affordable power that we talked about earlier through pipeline capacity
• 2:46:11
  Speaker 4: or otherwise. You shouldn't have to pay taxes to the
• 2:46:15
  Speaker 4: government through your electric bill every month as a matter
• 2:46:18
  Speaker 4: of course, whether it's the hidden fees in your supply charge,
• 2:46:22
  Speaker 4: whether it's the public benefits charge, we can end those
• 2:46:25
  Speaker 4: things and make energy more affordable in this state.
• 2:46:28
  Speaker 41: And finally, you know, we need common sense back at.
• 2:46:31
  Speaker 4: The state level. This governor has chosen ideology and hyper
• 2:46:35
  Speaker 4: partisanship over kind of common sense and balance over at
• 2:46:39
  Speaker 4: every turn. He's basically run open arms to the far
• 2:46:44
  Speaker 4: left of this party in the last couple of years. Um,
• 2:46:49
  Speaker 4: He's embraced some of the most radical ideas in our country,
• 2:46:53
  Speaker 4: including when he tried to ban the sale of gasoline-powered
• 2:46:57
  Speaker 4: vehicles in the state of Connecticut, which I stood up
• 2:47:00
  Speaker 4: to him on and which he ultimately failed to do.
• 2:47:04
  Speaker 41: When, similarly, he paroled.
• 2:47:07
  Speaker 4: Over 44 convicted murderers in this state. Now, this is
• 2:47:11
  Speaker 4: not a governor who is trying to find common ground.
• 2:47:14
  Speaker 4: This is a governor who has embraced, you know, to overpracticality.
• 2:47:20
  Speaker 4: it's about time we had leadership in this state who
• 2:47:22
  Speaker 4: brought common sense back, who fought for middle class families
• 2:47:26
  Speaker 4: and made Connecticut affordable for all. I know we can
• 2:47:29
  Speaker 4: do it, but we're going to need to work as
• 2:47:32
  Speaker 4: hard as can be over the next 45 days. And
• 2:47:34
  Speaker 4: we're going to need everyone's help to accomplish it. So
• 2:47:38
  Speaker 4: I know we can.
• 2:47:39
  Speaker 1: That's the good news.
• 2:47:40
  Speaker 41: We can.
• 2:47:41
  Speaker 1: Well, I know I'm in your corner and I'm pushing
• 2:47:43
  Speaker 1: as hard as I can and doing as much as
• 2:47:45
  Speaker 1: I can for you. We appreciate you coming on the
• 2:47:48
  Speaker 1: radio and giving us an hour of your time with,
• 2:47:50
  Speaker 1: you know, running a campaign. And, you know, I know
• 2:47:52
  Speaker 1: your phone is ringing off the hook to get you
• 2:47:54
  Speaker 1: on different shows. And I cannot thank you enough for
• 2:47:57
  Speaker 1: helping me make this hour a great hour, 94.9 on
• 2:48:01
  Speaker 1: Lee Elsie's show. And I'll hopefully see everybody tonight, Lee
• 2:48:05
  Speaker 1: Elsie and everybody at Red, White & Blue, Water's Edge. Tonight,
• 2:48:10
  Speaker 1: thank you again so much, Ryan. I can't wait to
• 2:48:13
  Speaker 1: call you governor.
• 2:48:15
  Speaker 31: Thank you, George.
• 2:48:15
  Speaker 4: See you tonight. Yes.
• 2:48:18
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Good night. Goodbye, everybody. And have a great Monday.