Tim Gabriele

The session is either winding down or winding up, depending on your perspective.  Public hearings are slowing down and bills are advancing out of committee, meaning we’re moving to the dirty work of grinding out lawsuit-proof ready versions of priority legislation for possible floor votes.  What have those priorities been for the past few weeks?  Well, for Democrats there’s a plethora of substantive things they’ve been considering.  Both Governor Lamont and Senate Dems are pushing for a “...

“THEY’RE COMING” reads an all caps font plastered over an AI Slop graphic.  “HIDE YOUR LEAF BLOWERS”.  The image behind it is of redheaded person with a leafblower apparently growing out of the back of their shirt as leaves whimsically scatter in the air in the opposite direction of the blower tube.    Rep. Dave Yaccarino spammed this across various North Haven community pages, apparently pretty proud of it, declaring himself to against what he called an “egregious proposal” to phase out of...

DTC member Jenny Graves testifies in favor of Tax Equity Bills The big news this week was that there was a gigantic bill  pushed through by Democrats as a piece of “emergency legislation”. You can read more about it here .  Of course, Republicans are up in arms about this. But if this sounds like them crying wolf, I’m not entirely sold on that being the case this time around. In the past when legislative Dems have done this, it has been in response to rapidly developing federal changes which...