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Friday, December 27, 2013

12-27-13 Wait What Corporate welfare gone amok: “For ESPN, Millions to Remain in Connecticut”

Corporate welfare gone amok: “For ESPN, Millions to Remain in Connecticut” - Wait What?:




Corporate welfare gone amok: “For ESPN, Millions to Remain in Connecticut”
The New York Times had an incredible article yesterday about Governor Malloy’s decision to give tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funded corporate welfare checks to the extraordinarily successful ESPN Company. Malloy is hardly the first Connecticut governor to provide excessive corporate subsidies to “win over” ESPN, but he certainly gets the “award” for […]The post Corporate welfare gone am
12-26-13 Wait What Kicking the can down the road….
Wait What?: Kicking the can down the road….Governor Malloy styleAs the end of 2013 approaches we are reminded that unlike Gepetto’s wooden puppet, many politicians have taken lying and misrepresenting the truth to unprecedented levels, without suffering the ignominious consequences that affected Pinocchio. If that wasn’t the case, Connecticut’s Governor Dannel Malloy would be having an extremely h