Their Actions to Ignore Federal Law Will Cost Connecticut Taxpayers (Middletown) Earlier today, we learned that Connecticut Education Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker declined to sign the U.S. Department of Education’s letter certifying compliance with federal civil rights law, which now includes the rejection of discriminatory practices related to “diversity, equity, and inclusion” programs. “It is thoroughly disappointing that Connecticut Democrats so blatantly refuse to comply with federal law. This political decision to continue DEI policies not only harms the students in our schools but also risks Title 1 funding, which primarily helps support districts with higher percentages of low-income
(Middletown) Last night, Senate Democrats including Connecticut’s own Senators Chris Murphy and Dick Blumenthal, voted to block the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which would have kept men out of women’s sports. “This shameful vote by Senators Murphy and Blumenthal is just the latest in a series of Democrat resistance to Republican-led initiatives to keep women’s sports safe and fair,” said Republican State Chairman Ben Proto. “Here on the state level, Connecticut Democrats in the State House voted down a Republican amendment requiring the State Department of Education and CIAC to develop a plan to keep biological
(Middletown) This past week, US Senator Chris Murphy and other Senate Democrats met with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky shortly before he met with President Donald Trump and Vice-President J.D. Vance in the Oval Office. At that meeting, Senator Chris Murphy, leading the Senate Democrat meeting, urged Zelensky to reject the mineral rights agreement the Trump & Zelensky administrations had negotiated. “Senator Murphy and the Senate Democrats need to understand their role,” said Republican State Chairman Ben Proto. “Murphy and his fellow Senate Democrats purposely urged President Zelensky to reject an agreement that his administration negotiated in good faith with the United States.
(Middletown) Late last week, Governor Lamont’s Psychiatric Security Review Board granted Tyree Smith, a murderer and cannibal, a conditional release, allowing him to leave Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown. Smith confessed to and was sentenced for the 2011 killing of a homeless man in Connecticut, in which he ate the victim’s body parts. “The Lamont-appointed Psychiatric Security Review Board decided to release onto the streets a murderer and cannibal – a man who killed another person with an axe before removing parts of his brain and organs to eat them. This decision is mind-boggling. Smith is dangerous, and the
MIDDLETOWN – Earlier this week, the Yankee Institute reported that the State of Connecticut spends $1.3 billion on illegal immigrants, which includes the cost of Medicaid, Medicare, and housing programs. “I am appalled, but not surprised, that Governor Lamont and Connecticut Democrats are spending billions of dollars of taxpayer money on illegal immigrants,” said Connecticut Republican Chairman Ben Proto. “They continue to prove that their top priority is not the people of Connecticut, but the people who broke our laws to come to our country and our state illegally.” “$1.3 billion dollars would go a long way to solving
MIDDLETOWN – Attorney General William Tong’s decision to support the continuation of harmful surgery and other dangerous medical services on minors while denying women’s rights in sports is dangerous to children and risks the loss of federal health funding for Connecticut families, according to State Republican Chairman Ben Proto Friday. “Attorney General Tong is either sadly misinformed or a prisoner to an ideology that rejects science, common sense and fairness,” said Proto. “We need to help children with gender dysphoria and confusion, we need to restore the law which demands boys and girls play sports with genders they were
Governor Welcomes Criminal Illegal Aliens to Come to Connecticut MIDDLETOWN — Governor Ned Lamont fails to grasp that we are a nation of laws and borders and that his far-left progressive attitude is putting Connecticut residents at risk, according to Republican State Party Chairman Ben Proto. “Ned Lamont continues to speak and act as if he doesn’t care about the dangers of an open border and the presence of criminal illegal aliens who do not have legal rights and are not entitled to taxpayer funded services,” said Proto. “Connecticut citizens have always welcomed peaceful immigrants who come here and
MIDDLETOWN — On Wednesday, Congressmen, John Larson, Joe Courtney, Jim Himes, Congresswomen Rosa DeLauro and Jahana Hayes, voted against legislation that would protect girls and women athletics. They voted against legislation that would strengthen opportunities for our daughters and granddaughters to compete in interscholastic sports against only biological girls and women, asserted Republican State Party Chairman Ben Proto. “Connecticut Congressional Democrats demonstrated how completely out of touch they are with the insane idea that biological boys and men should be allowed to compete in women’s sports,” said Proto. “Their actions are abhorrent to female empowerment, common sense and fairness.”
Pardon of son Hunter Biden a Slap in the Face to Americans MIDDLETOWN — President Joe Biden announced that he was issuing the most sweeping pardon for his son Hunter Biden, by any President in over 50 years. This will ensure that his son not only does not face criminal sentencing for the crimes for which he has been found guilty or pled guilty but also for any other crime he may have committed over the past 10 years, including potential influence peddling while his father was Vice President. “President Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, is
MIDDLETOWN – The Connecticut Republican Party mourns the loss of former Governor M. Jodi Rell. Governor Rell passed away in Florida, Wednesday, November 20, 2024. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Rell family. “I had the honor, privilege and pleasure of knowing Jodi Rell and working with her” said Republican State Chairman Ben Proto. “As a young attorney, one of my first jobs was as counsel to the Connecticut House Republican Caucus. I had the opportunity to work with then State Representative Jodi Rell, on the bill screening committee. I had the opportunity to learn a great deal
