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22 September—Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski’s campaign has finally come up with some semi-plausible tax-cut measures to lure Connecticut voters in the upcoming election. They make sense and certainly are attractive as far as they go, but are only semi-plausible mostly because he’d need the full cooperation of the General Assembly to implement any of them.

Stefanowski’s plan is totally consistent with Connecticut Republicans’ innovative Contract with Connecticut—which, of course, isn’t at all evocative of the 1994 Congressional Republican Contract with America. Problem is, however, we know that Bob is never going to get full—or any—cooperation because both houses are as likely to flip to the GOP as he is to get elected.

Should he perform a miracle, Bob Stefanowski wouldn’t even be able to declare himself King of Connecticut like Ned Lamont did in 2020 (through an incredible barrage of executive orders, too many of which His Majesty has found it politically expedient not to rescind even though the novel coronavirus panic has largely passed) because the virtually guaranteed Democrat majorities in both houses of the General Assembly are absolutely guaranteed not to let him accomplish anything at all that could possibly put him and Republicans in anything like good stead with voters.

In other words, politics as usual. For both parties. Voters and the good of the state be damned.

Of course, the latest polls tell us that Bob Stefanowski is even less likely to be elected than he was a week ago. Same goes for Leora Levy, who’s running by an identical 17-percent margin behind Richie Blumenthal for the U.S. Senate seat.

Both candidates have nobody to blame but themselves, nothing to blame but their inept, typically Connecticut Republican campaigns. And Stefanowski’s and Levy’s stubborn refusal to repudiate Donald Trump is the coup de grâce for both candidates. Are they really loyal to the scumbag or, like far too many Republican office holders and office seekers, just afraid of him?

And do Bob’s and Leora’s highly overpaid campaign gurus realize that, while Trump certainly has a devoted following among the moron wing of Connecticut and national Republicans, as proved by the party’s ludicrous primaries and caucuses this summer, most voters in the general election—even the morons—aren’t Republicans?