Press release just received from State Democrats
TWO
NUMBERS FOR VOTERS TO THINK ABOUT: $250,000 AND $20,000,000,000
Hartford, CT -
Republican candidate Tom Foley has now failed twice to qualify for public
financing - and his inability to competently complete a $250,000 endeavor
doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in his ability to manage a nearly
$20,000,000,000 state budget.
Republican leaders are now decrying how hard it is to qualify. GOP
Chairman Jerry Labriola called the Citizens’ Election Program a “labyrinth,”
claiming that “You have to demonstrate extraordinary organizational skills.”
If a gubernatorial candidate
can’t be organized enough to manage a $250,000 effort after two tries,
how in the world is he going to manage almost $20,000,000,000? The $250,000
public financing effort is about one thousandth of one percent of Connecticut’s
budget.
“Think about it - if you can’t
competently submit paperwork for $250,000, then how are you going to handle a
budget that’s $20,000,000,000? By percentage, if Tom Foley were traveling to
the bottom of the sea, he would make it a third of a foot down. If he were
traveling all the way to the moon, he wouldn’t make it half way up Mount
Everest,” said Devon Puglia, spokesman for the Connecticut Democratic Party.
“Voters need to consider this budgetary comparison carefully - this is a
barometer of a candidate’s competence, and Tom Foley doesn’t seem to have a
speck of it. The Foley campaign is dodging important questions because they
approached this process recklessly. Now, questions abound as to not just
whether he has the capacity to run this state, but whether he can even put
together a competent campaign organization with about a thousandth of a percent
of the size of Connecticut’s budget.”
