That's unpossible.

Meantime here in NY we have 3 guys in a room making tax policy and state senators too impotent to vote it down. Anyone ever tried to overthrow a state government?

sounds like an episode from it's a wonderful life

not everything is so hunky dory in CT. They just passed a 30% business profit surcharge that is going to drain the businesses right out of the state, on top of a huge tax increase for anyone making over 250k, this was after they pissed off half the state by introducing a bill targeting the catholic church, and then pissed off the other half by introducing a 5 cent per bag store tax.

on the plus side, Kevin Sullivan, who was probably the biggest dick ever in politics, is of office.

Allegations that Democrats and Republicans voted together do not prove an effective legislature. The rest of that makes Connecticut's process sound better than New York or Massachusetts. That could be a sign that the small state is relatively politically homogeneous.

Anyone ever tried to overthrow a state government?

Massachusetts voters signed a petition for term limits in the 1990s. The state constitution requires a 3/4 vote of the legislature to prevent such a petition from going to the voters. The corrupt Senate President blocked a vote. The state supreme court said no vote was as good as a 3/4 vote against.

Nobody wastes energy trying to take politicians' power away any more.

MorningBreath: by introducing a 5 cent per bag store tax.

Which is a damn good idea. It might spur idiots to bring reusable canvas bags or save the ones they already have. The amount of energy and resources wasted by people throwing away plastic grocery bags is staggering.

Truthfully, that is what probably happens most of the time when people are not grandstanding. Your city commission, your county boards, they are probably working just fine.

When you get the television cameras and everybody is on constant audition for what is good for the small group that is important to their re-election, that is when the politicians for the most part stop thinking about what is good for the nation and focus on what is good for them.

We should limit them all to 2 terms, and even then I think 12 years in the Senate is too long.

damn yankees, going off and doing things right

I don't think the blowhards in the US Congress or Senate could ever do this. Too much attitude and ego.

Nice try guys, but you still elected Chris Dodd.

This chaos is what happens when you allow gays to marriage!

I'm worried that this kind of behavoir could start a trend.

I'd rather not have the elected officials of my government working together. If they're cooperating, they can pass pretty much any damn fool law they want without anyone from the other party to keep them in check.

NO. There is NOTHING good about Connecticut. Nothing.

Was it a Tea Party?

Tea does float.....

Outshined_One: I'd rather not have the elected officials of my government working together. If they're cooperating, they can pass pretty much any damn fool law they want without anyone from the other party to keep them in check.

No, thats just what they do now, but they make stuff worse by paying off a small chunk of the minority group to go along instead of working together and meeting in the middle. The middle should be a place where damn fool extreme laws on both sides couldn't be achieved.

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: MorningBreath: by introducing a 5 cent per bag store tax.

Which is a damn good idea. It might spur idiots to bring reusable canvas bags or save the ones they already have. The amount of energy and resources wasted by people throwing away plastic grocery bags is staggering.


And is also becoming a reality in cities throughout the nation. Get used to it, wasteful farkfaces

Tell him about the Twinkie.

holiday_inn_in_cambodia: Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: MorningBreath: by introducing a 5 cent per bag store tax.

Which is a damn good idea. It might spur idiots to bring reusable canvas bags or save the ones they already have. The amount of energy and resources wasted by people throwing away plastic grocery bags is staggering.


And is also becoming a reality in cities throughout the nation. Get used to it, wasteful farkfaces

It would help if they actually knew how to bag. I don't want my gallon of milk bagged, let alone double-bagged. Also, you can put more than three items in a bag. And when I tell you that I'll bag my own things, DON'T BAG THEM DAMMIT!

/former bagger
//nerd rage rising

1derful: Nice try guys, but you still elected Chris Dodd.

So true.

Purple Sheeple Eater: NO. There is NOTHING good about Connecticut. Nothing.

Devil's Hopyard
Harkness Park
Gilette Castle
New London music/art scene
Mystic Disc
The Green Marble
Klekolo


/quick list of awesome stuff off the to of my head
//grew up there and hated it
///it's not all bad, hence the list

The Fark community frowns on Connecticut's shenanigans.

Jesus the 33rd
New London music/art scene
Mystic Disc
The Green Marble

Heh! Nice. Spent much of my late teens at those very spots.

ZAZ: Massachusetts voters signed a petition for term limits in the 1990s. The state constitution requires a 3/4 vote of the legislature to prevent such a petition from going to the voters. The corrupt Senate President blocked a vote. The state supreme court said no vote was as good as a 3/4 vote against.

Nobody wastes energy trying to take politicians' power away any more.

At the next election, did the voters limit the terms of those State Senators that voted for that Senate President? Lazy, party-addicted voters cannot be cured by any law. Sometimes, you just have to bite the bullet and vote for the other guy.

At the next election, did the voters limit the terms of those State Senators that voted for that Senate President?

Most races are uncontested and the incumbents collect a lot of money to deter any challenge. Voters approved a public campaign finance law to try to even the playing field. Incumbents repealed it.

Jesus the 33rd: Purple Sheeple Eater: NO. There is NOTHING good about Connecticut. Nothing.

Devil's Hopyard
Harkness Park
Gilette Castle
New London music/art scene
Mystic Disc
The Green Marble
Klekolo


/quick list of awesome stuff off the to of my head
//grew up there and hated it
///it's not all bad, hence the list

Klekolo is no longer good.
the hours are now ultra shiatty. 7-7 ... I was there when they went from 7am - 1am to 7-midnight, then I stopped going when they went full 7am -7 pm. I still got a double warlock handed to me when I walked in though, without even having to say I was ordering it.

However the Bean & Leaf in New London's hours are good, and the coffee is better.

Outshined_One: I'd rather not have the elected officials of my government working together. If they're cooperating, they can pass pretty much any damn fool law they want without anyone from the other party to keep them in check.

I sincerely hope your joking, my sarcasm meter is in for repairs at the moment.

Jesus the 33rd: Purple Sheeple Eater: NO. There is NOTHING good about Connecticut. Nothing.

Devil's Hopyard
Harkness Park
Gilette Castle
New London music/art scene
Mystic Disc
The Green Marble
Klekolo


/quick list of awesome stuff off the to of my head
//grew up there and hated it
///it's not all bad, hence the list

Mohegan Sun.
Foxwoods.

ZAZ: Massachusetts voters signed a petition for term limits in the 1990s. The state constitution requires a 3/4 vote of the legislature to prevent such a petition from going to the voters. The corrupt Senate President blocked a vote. The state supreme court said no vote was as good as a 3/4 vote against

Oh well, it wouldn't matter. The only thing term limits would do is make a bunch of lame ducks and reduce the institutional knowledge of the legislature.

Cue Rush ranting about the RINO traitors in the Connecticut legislature...

shadow9d9: This chaos is what happens when you allow gays to marriage!

Crap, next thing you know it'll be dogs and cats cohabiting.

Nice to see that at least some part of the Real America that President Bush freed from the Clintonian Oppression hasn't been destroyed under President Hussein Osama.

HOPWhiteyFord: Jesus the 33rd: Purple Sheeple Eater: NO. There is NOTHING good about Connecticut. Nothing.

Devil's Hopyard
Harkness Park
Gilette Castle
New London music/art scene
Mystic Disc
The Green Marble
Klekolo


/quick list of awesome stuff off the to of my head
//grew up there and hated it
///it's not all bad, hence the list

Klekolo is no longer good.
the hours are now ultra shiatty. 7-7 ... I was there when they went from 7am - 1am to 7-midnight, then I stopped going when they went full 7am -7 pm. I still got a double warlock handed to me when I walked in though, without even having to say I was ordering it.

However the Bean & Leaf in New London's hours are good, and the coffee is better.

That's unfortunate. I haven't been there in years, but the last time I was there, they were definitely open until 1.

I still call the bathroom the "maproom" on occasion.

Wolf Blitzer is a Substitute Teacher: ZAZ: Massachusetts voters signed a petition for term limits in the 1990s. The state constitution requires a 3/4 vote of the legislature to prevent such a petition from going to the voters. The corrupt Senate President blocked a vote. The state supreme court said no vote was as good as a 3/4 vote against

Oh well, it wouldn't matter. The only thing term limits would do is make a bunch of lame ducks and reduce the institutional knowledge of the legislature.

It also weakens the choke lobbyists have over DC and removes corrupt and/or too old to be useful politicians. Maybe 80-year-olds who refer to their computer and the Internet as "the AOLs" wouldn't be legislating the Internet.

Eh, the real reason behind all this "bipartisanship" in CT is that there is no real difference between Republicans and Democrats here. The only difference is that the Democrats expressed opposition to the Iraq war while the Republicans supported it -- as if that matters at the state level. In terms of their positions on taxes, unions, projects within the state, and any other issue that actually matters to CT residents, they rarely differ on anything.

Meanwhile we're stuck with sky high taxes, crushing poverty in many places, the most expensive gas of any neighboring state and yet the worst roads, stupid liquor laws, no enforcement of traffic laws on the roads, and public corruption on a level that makes state and local government look like a Mafia theme park.

/shopping for a house in NY now
//be glad to get out of this hellhole

Wolf Blitzer is a Substitute Teacher: Jesus the 33rd: Purple Sheeple Eater: NO. There is NOTHING good about Connecticut. Nothing.

Devil's Hopyard
Harkness Park
Gilette Castle
New London music/art scene
Mystic Disc
The Green Marble
Klekolo


/quick list of awesome stuff off the to of my head
//grew up there and hated it
///it's not all bad, hence the list

Mohegan Sun.
Foxwoods.

Dr. Mike's Ice Cream

/Bethel represent

ZAZ: At the next election, did the voters limit the terms of those State Senators that voted for that Senate President?

Most races are uncontested and the incumbents collect a lot of money to deter any challenge. Voters approved a public campaign finance law to try to even the playing field. Incumbents repealed it.

Well, then I'd say it was time to vote with your feet, but I don't think you'll find much different elsewhere in the US.

Grey Street: Wolf Blitzer is a Substitute Teacher: Jesus the 33rd: Purple Sheeple Eater: NO. There is NOTHING good about Connecticut. Nothing.

Devil's Hopyard
Harkness Park
Gilette Castle
New London music/art scene
Mystic Disc
The Green Marble
Klekolo


/quick list of awesome stuff off the to of my head
//grew up there and hated it
///it's not all bad, hence the list

Mohegan Sun.
Foxwoods.

Dr. Mike's Ice Cream

/Bethel represent

Don't forget Dudley Town and Lake Compounce.