Opinion: Republicans want to close State Capitol candy store

“Like a kid in a candy store.”

The idiom conjures up an image of a child viewing a tempting variety of sweet treat options.

Here in one-party Democrat rule Connecticut, our state government grant allotment system unfortunately now resembles a candy store. The ‘candy’ is your tax dollars. The overexcited kids in the store are majority state lawmakers.

Republicans want to close down the candy store at the State Capitol.

Taxpayer money, your money, must be respected. We don’t feel it is being respected. Here’s why.

As working families struggle with electric bills and rising costs, a troubling pattern has been exposed in state government. We view it as a creeping culture of corruption. From the State Pier debacle to the CSCU chancellor scandal to the ongoing Kostas Diamantis federal