Corporations flee to red states for better business climate
Fox Business contributor Lou Basenese discusses the "blue state exodus," highlighting companies like Yamaha Motor Corp. and ExxonMobil relocating to states with lower taxes and better business climates. He contrasts Governor Kathy Hochul's August 2022 message for Republicans to leave New York with her March 2024 plea for wealthy individuals to return, emphasizing the financial spreadsheet over politics.
Connecticut Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont is no fan of President Donald Trump, but his progressive primary challenger, state Rep. Josh Elliott, says he’s too cozy with the president.
Lamont defeated Elliott in a high-stakes New England primary Tuesday in a state that not long ago shifted from competitive territory to reliably Democratic.
Elliott, D-Hamden, painted Lamont as too "nice" to Trump, saying that being "nice is a problem right now."
"Nice doesn’t solve affordability. Nice doesn’t solve fascism or fight back against fascism," Elliott told the Connecticut Mirror.
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Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont speaks at the Connecticut State Capitol on Feb. 8, 2023, in Hartford. (Aaron Flaum/Hartford Courant/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
"[Ned] can be nice all day long, but that’s a liability right now."
Lamont, meanwhile, told the outlet that "talk is cheap" and said Elliott has little to offer compared with the incumbent’s record during his nearly eight years in office.
Lamont’s camp said it wants to see single-payer healthcare and additional resources for early childhood education in the state. Connecticut is increasingly becoming a bedroom community for the New York City, Providence and Boston metropolitan areas.
Clockwise from top left are Connecticut Reps. John Larson, Jahana Hayes, Jim Himes and Joe Courtney. (Tom Williams/Roll Call/Kevin Dietsch/Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg/Douglas Healey/Getty Images)
Lamont faces state Sen. Ryan Fazio, R-Greenwich, in the November general election.
While now reliably blue, Connecticut not long ago had several Republicans in Congress and GOP governors with staying power, including John Rowland, who was later imprisoned.
Republicans held Connecticut’s governorship for much of the period between the Reagan era and 2010, when the late Gov. M. Jodi Rell decided against seeking another term and Democrat Dannel Malloy succeeded her.
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Connecticut Gov. Edward "Ned" Lamont Jr. is seen. (Tyler Russell/Getty Images)
Former Sen. Prescott Bush, father of former President George H.W. Bush, represented Connecticut in the U.S. Senate for more than a decade in the mid-20th century.
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Lowell Weicker, a liberal Republican U.S. senator who preceded Joseph Lieberman, also served as governor in the 1990s under the "A Connecticut Party" line, which he founded.
