Malloy - "We're not raising taxes"

Posted by Unknown at 10:54 AM on Friday, May 20, 2011
Union ‘Concession’ Plan Full of Holes,
Mythical Savings Used to Balance Budget





A staged press briefing that took place today at Rentschler Field and was yet another attempt to sell the phony concession package to skeptical audiences. Gov. Malloy counted on at least $2 billion in savings and union concessions as the final pieces to balance the budget he introduced in February.


As details of the deal emerged since it was hastily announced a week ago, it has become clear that the numbers do not add up, Republicans said. "And there is little, if any, of the 'shared sacrifice' that the governor has called for,'' Cafero said.


Details of the package include:
* A four-year no lay-off provision for the entire state workforce
* 10.3 percent salary increase over five years
* A five year extension of the much criticized health care and pension plan
* No furlough days costing taxpayers $42 million a year
* No changes in taxpayer funded union steward positions which cost a total of $93 million a year
* No reduction health care benefits for state workers
* No increase in pension contributions or health care premiums


Gov. Malloy insisted his budget would contain no gimmicks and real savings. No gimmicks? The questionable savings amount to an estimated $566 million or nearly one third of the $1.6 billion
Malloy claims in savings. 
Consider these.
* $205 million in anticipated savings from requiring state workers to become healthier overnight through annual check-ups and other "Value Added'' Health care components
* $180 million in savings to come from state employee suggestion boxes to be placed through state government
* $90 million through greater technology advancements 
* $75 million in "Health Cost Containment Initiatives''
* $13.5 million relating to prescription drugs going "off patent''
* $3 million savings from voluntary obesity and tobacco programs.


Republicans said the four-year no lay-off provision and the five-year pension and health care extension will prevent many short and long-term savings.
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Help us take the Connecticut Republican Party back!

Posted by Unknown at 9:36 PM on Saturday, May 7, 2011
Should we prevail and return the party to it's rightful owners (registered Republicans) no one will need to spend a day downloading data to find this stuff.

We'll put it all online on the ctgop.org site.
Payroll and staff expenses should be there too.
We've allowed poor stewardship of our donors dollars, and it has to stop.
It's no wonder our base is disengaged.
The state party should answer to, and behave like our Town Committees.






Our Town Committees work, they win more often than they lose (we control over half the
municipal governments in CT right now) and not one of them would put up with what 
you'll see below.








Obviously the party by-laws need looking at; the office of Chair simply has too much 
autonomous authority without seeking so much as an "Okay that sounds good" from the
committee itself. 
In fact we should insist on some changes regardless of who takes the chair, if I do we'll
move quickly to do so,  just in case I drop dead or something.







You can decide for yourselves what expenditures were unnecessary; but of the 271K 
you'll see here I'd bet you'll agree that at least 150K of it was a waste.

Expenditures of a Dubious Value.




Why only 9% of Connecticut Republican Party money is spent directly on candidates.
VendorCityStateDateAmountExplanation
Barker Specialty Co. Inc.CheshireCT20100603$710.222010 Convention Lanyards-Hats
Barker Specialty has a had a link on the CT Democratic website in the past, and are Democrats.
Why would we give them our business? 		Total:$710.22
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20100205$112.55Service Fee
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20100222$2,360.11Web Maintenance-PARTY Fundraising
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20100305$52.90Service fee
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20100402$97.94Service Fee
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20100420$225.00Web Maintenance-PARTY Fundraising
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20100429$918.96Web Maintenance-PARTY Fundraising
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20100507$668.77Service Fee-PARTY Fundraising
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20100604$1,497.15Service Fee
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20100614$648.00Website Maintenance
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20100702$231.77Service Fee
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20100715$525.00Website Maintenance
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20100720$46.14Service Fee
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20100806$256.75Service Fee
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20100809$375.00Website Maintenance
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20100907$208.54Service Fee
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20100913$54.03Website-Domain Name
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20101013$438.19Service Fee
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20101018$1,164.66Service Fee
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20101021$750.00Web Maintenance
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20101105$499.32Service Fee
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20101108$1,500.00Web Maintenance
Campaign SolutionsAlexandriaVA20101208$28.82Service Fee
Twelve thousand dollars for an out of state web service?Total:$12,659.60
We could easily have someone on staff part time to do that and more.
CD Inc.AlexandriaVA20101028$50,000.00Generic GOTV Web Ad
CD Inc.AlexandriaVA20101102$15,000.00Generic GOTV Web Ad
Sixty - Five thousand for a WEB AD?Total:$65,000.00
Direct Mail SystemsClearwaterFL20100113$2,576.28Direct Mail-PARTY Fundraising
Direct Mail SystemsClearwaterFL20100222$4,604.10Direct Mail-PARTY Fundraising
Direct Mail SystemsClearwaterFL20100329$876.15Postage-PARTY Fundraising
Direct Mail SystemsClearwaterFL20100415$1,880.00Postage-PARTY Fundraising
Direct Mail SystemsClearwaterFL20100429$8,434.11Direct Mail-PARTY Fundraising
Direct Mail SystemsClearwaterFL20100603$6,191.99Direct Mail-PARTY Fundraising
Direct Mail SystemsClearwaterFL20100617$775.50Direct Mail-PARTY Fundraising
Direct Mail SystemsClearwaterFL20100726$2,292.55Direct Mail-PARTY Fundraising
Direct Mail SystemsClearwaterFL20100907$595.00Direct Mail-PARTY Fundraising
Direct Mail SystemsClearwaterFL20100920$210.00Postage-PARTY Fundraising
Direct Mail SystemsClearwaterFL20101008$379.50Postage-PARTY Fundraising
There's plenty of Republican Mailing operations in Connecticut.Total:$28,815.18
FLS Connect LLCSaint PaulMN20100222$4,802.00Telemarketing-PARTY Fundraising
FLS Connect LLCSaint PaulMN20100527$550.00Telemarketing-PARTY Fundraising
FLS Connect LLCSaint PaulMN20100603$11,060.48Telemarketing-PARTY Fundraising
FLS Connect LLCSaint PaulMN20100715$7,625.00Telemarketing-PARTY Fundraising
FLS Connect LLCSaint PaulMN20100820$3,951.95Telemarketing-PARTY Fundraising
FLS Connect LLCSaint PaulMN20100922$2,189.00Telemarketing-PARTY Fundraising
FLS Connect LLCSaint PaulMN20100930$2,272.00Telemarketing-PARTY Fundraising
FLS Connect LLCSaint PaulMN20101015$4,978.00Telemarketing-PARTY Fundraising
FLS Connect LLCSaint PaulMN20101019$230.90Printing-Generic Mapbooks
FLS Connect LLCSaint PaulMN20101021$1,700.00Telemarketing-PARTY Vol.Recruitment
FLS Connect LLCSaint PaulMN20101026$300.35Telemarketing-PARTY Vol.Recruitment
FLS Connect LLCSaint PaulMN20101028$4,716.80GOTV CALLS-INKIND
FLS Connect LLCSaint PaulMN20101028$4,146.24GOTV CALLS-INKIND
FLS Connect LLCSaint PaulMN20101029$223.40Printing-Generic Mapbooks
FLS Connect LLCSaint PaulMN20101101$1,103.21Generic GOTV Calls
FLS Connect LLCSaint PaulMN20101101$21,550.80Generic GOTV Calls
FLS Connect LLCSaint PaulMN20101101$40,256.40Generic GOTV Calls
FLS Connect LLCSaint PaulMN20101108$130.64GOTV CALLS-INKIND
FLS Connect LLCSaint PaulMN20101108$192.03GOTV CALLS-INKIND
FLS Connect LLCSaint PaulMN20101110$1,653.00Telemarketing-PARTY Fundraising
Consider the number of volunteers we had phoning last fall plus our multiple staffed offices.Total:$113,632.20
Grassroots TargetingAlexandriaVA20100913$21,000.00Microtargeting-Generic
Grassroots TargetingAlexandriaVA20100930$21,000.00Microtargeting-Generic
Whatever "Microtargeting" is - it didn't work did it? Total:$42,000.00
SMARTechChattanoogaTN20100817$1,465.93Telephone-Polling-Non Allocable
SMARTechChattanoogaTN20100826$859.43Telephone-Polling-Non Allocable
SMARTechChattanoogaTN20101012$899.85Telephone Polling-Non Allocable
Out of state vendor retained despite massive number of volunteers and paid staff on hand.Total:$3,225.21
Expenditures of dubious value total: $266,042.41
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Bin Laden Assigned To The Hitler Wing In Hell

Posted by Unknown at 7:48 AM on Monday, May 2, 2011
 
I must report it's very warm here in Hell.
Who's Next?
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