The big three, Looney, Lamont, Ritter “No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session,” said Mark Twain. The life, liberty and property of Connecticut residents will be safe after May 8, 2024 when the General Assembly packs it in for the fiscal year. Of course, the General Assembly will reconvene in February, at which time the life, liberty and property of Connecticut citizens once again will be put in jeopardy. Some prospective bills never make it from the drawing board. Such was a bill, championed by environmentalists and politicians seeking to make hay from California’s attempt to outlaw the sale of internal combustion engines after 2035. A measure to replicate in Connecticut California’s stringent laws and regulations concerning environmental tidiness has now been put off until the current 2024 elections have concluded. “In a surprising move,” the Hartford Courant tells us, “House Speaker Matt Ritter said that the legislature will not vote...
go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you;
may your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"
--Samuel Adams