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“[Blumenthal Is] Claiming His 20-Year Legacy Of Lawsuits Actually Created Jobs, Even Though The State’s Anti-Business Climate He Fostered Is The Stuff Of Legend And Connecticut Is Last In Self-Employed Entrepreneurs.”
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Waterbury Republican American
Editorial
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat who fancies himself U.S. Senate material, says he’s proud of the work he’s done to lower electricity rates and health-care costs in Connecticut. But the state has the second-highest power rates, the fourth highest medical costs and the fifth highest group health-insurance premiums in America, and the average individual policy-holder just got hit with a 20.7 percent increase. So if anything, Mr. Blumenthal has failed ratepayers and consumers spectacularly. Now he’s claiming his 20-year legacy of lawsuits actually created jobs, even though the state’s anti-business climate he fostered is the stuff of legend and Connecticut is last in self-employed entrepreneurs. We don’t suppose he’d be willing to put his claims to a vote of actual businessmen. But in fairness, his taxpayer-funded lawsuit factory has provided work for the hundreds of attorneys and support staff in his office who are tasked with terrorizing businesses and driving them and their jobs out of the state or out of existence. In that regard, he has been an unqualified success.
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