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September 2, 2026
Recently, Governor Lamont signed an executive order to establish a government committee called the Connecticut Career Pathway Commission, a new advisory board with the mission of finding jobs for Connecticut residents in the changing milieu caused by AI (Artificial Intelligence) and globalism.
According to the Governor’s executive order [ [link removed] ], the commission will consist of “unpaid volunteers” consisting of “leaders from the K-12 and higher education and workforce board systems, employers, labor representatives, municipal leaders, governmental leaders, legislators, community representatives, and students.”
The order further states that the Commission will: “Recommend strategies to expand dual enrollment, early college, and the attainment of credentials of value-including industry-recognized credentials, licensure, and certifications; strengthen credit transfer and articulation; ensure that credentialing systems reflect employer needs and labor market demand; and ensure that students are supported with effective education and career advising that helps them navigate multiple high-quality pathway options.”
The $250,000 man. Miguel Cardona
It is unlikely that this committee will be able to recommend strategies for learning how to write coherently given the above verbiage.
But to put it simply, the purpose of this committee is to recommend how to educate our citizens so that they can find tech jobs in Connecticut.
There is only one problem with this goal. It assumes that employers will want to locate to Connecticut, a state that only produced a piddly 1,200 increase [ [link removed] ] in jobs in 2025. And to add insult to injury, this small growth was due to increased government and health care jobs. AI, software and manufacturing jobs are not knocking on Connecticut’s door.
This Commission cannot solve the real problem. Connecticut is run by Democrats. When you add up the number of government and municipal employees including those with pensions, freeloaders, the sexually avant garde and Trump-hating affluent white liberals, the number exceeds 50%. Thus we are a Deep Blue state.
Everything in sight is taxed, even our cars. Businesses deal with a hostile bureaucracy dedicated to harassing anyone who is profitable. The trial lawyers rule, thus insurance rates for housing, health care, commercial buildings etc. are astronomical. And let’s not get started on the climate change fanatics who had the political power to force the state to rely on renewables causing energy costs to rise so high that a public benefits charge had to be surreptitiously added to our bills so that our poorer citizens would not freeze to death. Furthermore, our zoning and environmental laws have resulted in a housing price escalation so that we can’t even recruit young doctors to the state.
But the latest kick in the teeth was when Governor Lamont appointed former Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to head this “voluntary” Commission for a fat $250,000 of taxpayer money. And this was a no-bid job!
But according to Kelli-Marie of the State Office of Workforce Strategy, there was not enough time to solicit other bids [ [link removed] ].
Really? Connecticut has been around for hundreds of years. But it would appear that Ms. Vallieres’ workforce strategy is to figure out how political hacks can fleece the taxpayer. Thus, she is worth every penny of her $209,610 annual salary. [ [link removed] ]
And let’s not forget the ruling of paralegal Melissa Hamilton of Connecticut’s Office of State Ethics (an oxymoron if there ever was one) who stated: [ [link removed] ]
Dr. Cardona’ s appointment to the Career Pathways Commission ( CPC) does not appear to meet the general definition of “ Public official,” and even if it did, it appears to satisfy the exception for “Member[ s] of an advisory board,” meaning that, one way or the other, Dr. Cardona does not appear to be, as CPC chair, “ generally” subject to the Code
In other words, Cardona can keep the money.
You can’t make this up! And if you think I am, please click the links. I don’t have enough imagination to create such a tale of corruption.
How can Miguel Cardona not be a public official? He was the Secretary of Education! And Office of State Ethics has fourteen full-time employees with an average salary of $127,319. [ [link removed] ]
Oh well. Even if they can’t figure out ethics, some of them must have well-stocked wine cellars.
As for the rest of us sap taxpayers, we will just continue to pay and pay and pay while Governor Lamont can spend infinite amounts of his inherited money (so much for the Democratic scam of money out of politics) and cruise to reelection.
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