The First Feedback On Lamont's Plans for Tolls and More Taxes

Yesterday, there were special elections in five state senate or house districts across Connecticut.  Each of these seats was held by a Democrat who resigned to take a position with the administration of new governor Ned Lamont.  The results were quite a slap in the face for Lamont.  Republicans won 2 out of 5, and these were seats that have been held by Democrats for a long time.  One district that was won by a GOP candidate had voted 61% for Hillary Clinton in 2016.  Each of these districts has supported Lamont last November.  The big difference, however, from past elections is that Lamont has now unveiled his plan to impose sales taxes on basic necessities like food as well as to put tolls on every major highway across the state.  These are taxes and fees that will hit the ordinary Connecticut resident every day.  At the same time, Lamont has proposed a budget that continues to increase spending.  There was not even a single major state program that Lamont thought could be cut to save money.  The anger this has unleashed across the state is major.  It's worth noting that the three Democrats who won all won by substantially smaller margins than their predecessors had gotten last November (when Lamont was still promising no raises in taxes and no tolls for CT residents.)

There has been very little coverage of this very big slap in the face to governor Lamont and his fellow Democrats, but that is not surprising given the biased nature of most Connecticut media.  It's important to know, however, that the word will get out.