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The Governor’s Emissary

I am disappointed in State Senator Ted Kennedy’s voting to approve the fiscally irresponsible tax increases of Governor Dan Malloy’s budget, which will force us to see even less in our paychecks, force us to pay even more to support our families, and force even more people and businesses to leave the state.

We can see this is the budget Governor Malloy wanted since Malloy had already vetoed a previous bipartisan budget that had no tax increases. Nonetheless, the governor still needed our legislators’ approval of this irresponsible budget. To the east of Mr. Kennedy’s district, Republican State Representative Jesse MacLaclan voted against this budget, and to the north of his district, Republican State Senator Art Linares, Jr., voted against it, too. Even in Mr. Kennedy’s district, State Representative Sean Scanlon, a fellow Democrat of Malloy and Kennedy, voted against it. These legislators had a bipartisan understanding that this was an irresponsible budget. Only Mr. Kennedy throughout the central shoreline area voted to approve the budget and these tax increases Malloy clearly wanted, which makes me wonder if Mr. Kennedy is really the governor’s emissary to the towns, rather than the towns’ emissary to the governor.

Last October I wrote to The Source saying the people of the 12th State Senate District literally could not afford to vote for Mr. Kennedy. Sometimes, “I told you so” just doesn’t quite say it.

David Adametz

Killingworth