Tim Gabriele

Without doing much at all, I find myself being talked about in the third person, which I find strange because I am fully capable of talking for myself, as anyone who knows me can attest. All this seems to have very little to do with me (though I imagine these folks do not like me) or the budget (which they’re ostensibly about). Instead, these are bad faith attempts to try win a debate online, thinking this to be an effective strategy at convincing voters who absolutely know better. While...

This week the state GOP staged a bold protest …either in fierce protection of civil liberties and free speech, or against the rights of Muslim women to exercise those same civil liberties and free speech. It was admittedly a bit confusing. Of course we’re talking about the Republicans here, so their idea of a protest is either storming the Capitol to do open treason or, in this case, displaying tiny yellow flags on their desk. Rep. Yaccarino was captured by Hearst Media with that yellow...

If this is the first time you are looking at a DTC communication, welcome! If not, you probably know that it’s budget season. So the CT GOP is looking to take advantage of the fact that towns are struggling by unveiling a state budget plan that includes something called the School/Taxpayers Relief & Affordability, or STRAP (as in the bootstraps they usually demand that we all lift ourselves up by). The bill would award $420 million (nice) of taxpayer relief and generous amounts of aid to...