It seems to me absurd that the Green Party, one of whose main goals in life is stricter environmental regulations, and the Libertarian Party, whose main goal in life is NO regulations, would endorse the same candidate, along with the Independent Party, who, for all that I can tell, would favor tax incentives for polluters.
I can’t find any information on the Independent Party, nor can I figure out what the “State Agent” is. All I know is that Mike Telesca, “State Agent of the Independent Party”, is on the board of The Federation of Connecticut Taxpayer Organizations and a speaker at the right-wing CT Liberty Forum.
It’s hard to see Libertarians and anti-tax Independent Party types supporting solutions to some of the problems Mertens identifies: “…prisons that are bursting at the seams, urban schools that are struggling, a wounded economy with rising unemployment, a health care system that needs major reform, the lack of a coherent national energy policy that will protect our economy and the environment…”
