7 July—Yesterday I promised or threatened to expatiate upon the Stefanowski campaign mailing “in the future.”

Well, the future is here. Already. And Bob Stefanowski appears to be doing everything in his considerable power to get Ned Lamont elected to a second term misgoverning Connecticut.

First, the pregnant envelope on the post orifice conference table, besides displaying Bob Stefanowski’s name in big bold type, assures the addressee, “this is what has NED LAMONT and the DEMOCRATS very WORRIED … .”

But what really got my attention was the neatly hand-written comment: “This clown gave Trump an A+”

I couldn’t recall Stefanowski giving Trump an A+, but I did recall that he had given the Drecksack Führer an A in a GOP primary debate four years ago. I’ve written on a few occasions, since 2015, that candidates’ opinions of Donald Trump should have no bearing on state and local politics. But I’ve been wrong. Simply giving Trump an F certainly wouldn’t attract my vote, but giving him anything higher than a D would raise my doubts about a candidate’s awareness, intelligence, sanity, and ability to effectively represent me. Or anyone.

Evidently, Bob Stefanowski also has seen some light, because now, although, being a gutless Republican, he hasn’t renounced (let alone denounced) Trump, he maintains that he simply agrees with a lot of the former scumbag-in-chief’s policies. No problem there—even I agree with some (but not a lot) of Trump’s policies. Only the good ones, of course.

Otherwise, Stefanowski tries to steer clear of Trump, generally a good strategy in Connecticut. But he also tries to do end runs around his NRA rating and his running mate’s active support of abortion rights legislation. In 2018, the NRA rated Bob AQ—A, but based on no record and only his answers to their questionnaire. Now he refuses to reveal how he answered the questionnaire, claiming that was then, this is now.

The answers that earned him an A certainly are nothing to be ashamed of. His refusal to reveal them is. But this Connecticut and he wants to get elected.

State Rep. Laura Devlin, Stefanowski’s running mate, was one of the few Republicans who supported HB 5414, necessary (and successful) safe-harbor legislation “to provide protections for persons receiving and providing reproductive health care services in the state.” Bob doesn’t want to talk about it. But the anti-abortion lobby is “heartened” by little things like his support for adding a parental notification provision to a state abortion rights law that he otherwise would not attempt to change. (Evidently he’s unaware that fathers are known to rape their daughters even in Connecticut.) He’s probably opposed to abortion. But this is Connecticut and he wants to get elected.

Ned Lamont has released his seven-figure AGI 2018, 2019, and 2020 tax returns. He has an extension on his 2021 return. Where are Bob Stefanowski’s returns? He released his seven-figure AGI 2016 and 2017 returns only about a week before the 2018 election. He’ll probably wait till the last minute this year, too. Why? Is his income too high or too low to reveal to voters?

The Stefanowski campaign is very quick to find lots of well-deserved fault with the Lamont administration. But it’s very vague—too vague—about what a Stefanowski administration would do—or could do—to rescue Connecticut from the mismanagement, debt, conflict of interest, and general corruption that have marked and embarrassed the state for decades.

With only four months before the election, it’s high time Bob Stefanowski gave us something substantive to justify—or even attract—our votes . . .