Want a Better Legislature? Longer Terms May Be the Answer
For Connecticut’s state legislators, Election Day is almost always just around the corner. The Nutmeg State is one of just 14 states where legislators in both the state House and Senate serve two year terms, beginning in January after their election and concluding (for General Session purposes, anyway) until the next year’s May.
» Read MoreNo Second Fiddle for CT LG’s
The next Governor of the State of Connecticut will report to work on the 5th of January, 2011 and inherit a gargantuan budget deficit, an unaffordable state government, and a menagerie of intractable social problems not cured by four decades of trying. One would think that there would be few volunteers for the job. But [...]
» Read MoreWhat’s the Matter with Hartford
In August 2002, the New York Times described then-Gov. John G. Rowland’s vision for the City of Hartford this way: “… on the scale of grand plans to turn Hartford around, nothing compares to Governor Rowland’s $770 million construction project that he says will turn this into a trendy cafe-and-steakhouse city by 2005.” Fully five [...]
» Read MoreHeath Testifies to CT Legislature on CEP
On February 22, 2010, Heath W. Fahle testified in front of the Connecticut General Assembly’s Government Administration and Elections Committee on bills pertaining to the publicly-funded campaign system.
» Read MoreTerm Limits Can Break Status Quo in Hartford
This week it was revealed that in the face of a disastrous budget crisis, House Speaker Christopher Donovan of Meriden’s solution is to turn his frown upside-down and doggedly commit himself to the idea that if he ignores the problem, it will go away. He is hardly alone. Even Gov. M. Jodi Rell, who had [...]
» Read MoreSlanting the Playing Field: Connecticut’s Flawed Publicly-Funded Campaign System
Heath W. Fahle’s first research report for the Yankee Institute describes how the Citizens’ Election Program is bad for Connecticut elections and bad for democracy.
» Read MorePoliticians Fill Pockets at Taxpayer Expense
Politicians using the Citizens Election Program are filling their campaign coffers from the State Treasury, which is lousy for the people and bad for democracy
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