FACT CHECK: Lamont’s Track Record

This past Tuesday was a sad day for Caroline Simmons, the first term mayor of one of Connecticut's largest cities. Mayor Simmons has been reduced to a Lamont apologist, daining to bail out four years of failure and re-characterizing them as "leadership." 

Mayor Simmons, can you explain exactly which actions you would deem as "steady leadership" or done with "integrity?" 

Here is the Lamont track record to consider:

• Chilling parental input on educational decisions regarding their children's curriculum, health and safety - referring to parents who stand up for their children as monsters

• Minimizing employees seeking religious exemptions from vaccines as "Mother Theresas" 

• Ignoring how a Connecticut city misappropriated nearly $1M in funds, which included both municipal funding and Covid Relief Funds.  

  • Where was OPM? 

  • Where was the oversight board?

• Neglecting to intervene in the continued issues surrounding the CT Port Authority and the botched State Pier renovation, along with their ever-rising costs

• Enabling a school construction scandal as top administrate appointees funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars in contracts to few firms, which is now under investigation by the FBI

• Contracting the Covid testing stock and administration with a company in which his wife is deeply involved

• Causing a shortage in testing supply availability during a holiday week and then lying about the status of procuring additional test kits (creating a bum rush for naught for CT municipalities)

• Sustaining the longest lasting mask and business closure mandates in the country

• Reluctantly signing the gas tax suspension after 3 weeks of brow-beating from Republicans and the general population

• Failing to postpone state employee raises of over $350 million during COVID, while private sector employees were taking pay cuts and getting laid off

• Giving state employees, including those who retire before July 1st, a bonus (costing taxpayers more than $150 million), as well as a 2.5% pay increase each of the next 3 years. 

"Mayor Simmons should perhaps return her attention to the numbers of homeless residents in her city due to the failures of the engineering of the Allure Terrace or even to the independent and unaffiliated voters who carried her over the line in the belief that she was above partisan games. Mayor Simmons' comments are paltry indicators of her hopes to get Stamford as much municipal aid money through brown-nosing and baloney," said Connecticut Republican State Party Chairman, Ben Proto. 

"The time has come to stop spinning the dismal policies and actions of the Lamont Administration as ‘leadership’ or associating the word ‘integrity’ with Governor Lamont and Connecticut Democrats. There will be no photo of Ned Lamont next to those words in the dictionary" concluded Proto.

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