Tim Gabriele

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...

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 “...