Hearst CT poll: How would you grade Malloy, legislature?

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  1. Liberty says:

    The whining is ridiculous on behalf of Governor Malloy. The Democrat majority General Assembly has been slowly but surely destroying manufacturing and small businesses for years. They are responsible for “what Malloy was given”. Their unrelenting anti-business and pro union legislation has left us with few private sector jobs and Governor Malloy and his merry band of thieves have finished off the private sector this year.

    The liens on property in Essex had doubled in one year, until it was pointed out at budget hearings. Concerned selectman worked to help. Formerly “rich” towns have had a 400%, 200%, 98% rise in need for food stamps. People who have lost their jobs or self-employed people who can’t pay their mortgages are forced to pay for raises and unsustainable health benefits for the higher echelon public sector on every level. Governor Malloy and the general Assembly have failed utterly and completely on every level of grading.

  2. Tom Teric says:

    Connecticut is in deep trouble and the Governor’s and legislator’s programs are going to make the situation worse. We have had no job growth for 10 years. Fairfield County has carried CT for years and now with higher taxes they are clipping the wings on the golden goose.

    The pro-pot, anti-business legislation is not going to help CT as a home for good businesses. The administration’s “business” initiatives do nothing to help the money engine in Fairfield County, instead places like Farmington and other up state Democratic areas get money dumped on them. What are the odds that 16,000 jobs will be developed there by 2037 and how is that going to help us out of this year’s recession. Also the hot companies and entrepreneurs that could locate anywhere in the U.S. from Manhattan, to SFO to the Research Triangle are not going to move their families to Farmington. Look what happened to the enterprise zones in Bridgeport.

    Social engineering does not work. Adding more regulations for grants and funding mostly attracts government parasite. Sucking more taxes out of people to keep more government employees to regulate more and have them pick which business parasite to fund is not going to create a vibrate economy. These policies will generate a few hundred jobs, make for some good photo-ops and let the rest of the business world choke on regulation.

    I really hope I’m wrong.

  3. Vigilante says:

    And the legislative representation from Bridgeport is a laughingstock in Hartford. They’ve done little or nothing to the betterment of the Armpit of Connecticut (ibid. Paul Newman).

  4. Ricey says:

    I believe he has done superbly despite what he was given when stepping into office. Also he is not finished so a grade is still a bit pre-mature.