Common factors

I’m usually amused reading Ken Dixon’s weekly biased views on Bob Stefanowski, Republican nominee for governor, but last week’s slur that Stefanowski and Lamont “have more in common with each other than they do with people nearly anywhere else but certain enclaves in the state that we all can name” shouldn’t go unanswered.

Unlike Lamont’s trifecta of being born rich, marrying rich and then making more money, Stefanowski was raised in the suburbs of New Haven to a middleclass working family, went to a public high school, graduated from Fairfield University and then had a very successful business career with GE and UBS.

On that basis, Bob has more in common with Dixon’s background than Lamont’s except Bob went to a local university in Connecticut instead of Ohio.

Week after week, Dixon attacks the Republican “tax- slashing, supply- side” tax plans without regard to the facts. According to the latest ranking of states by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, the most fiscally successful states are all low- tax, Republican- run, while the 10 least solvent states are almost all high- tax, Democrat- run. And Kansas, the Republican state Dixon loves to cite, is ranked well above the fiscal mess the Democrats have made for us here in Connecticut.

When I moved here 40 years ago, Connecticut had low taxes and was one of the best run states in the country. Our neighbor to the North — formerly know as “Taxachusetts” — recently elected a Republican businessman, Charlie Baker, as its governor and is now well on the road to recovery.

We can do the same with someone like Bob Stefanowski, who wasn’t born an elitist with a silver spoon but understands the middle and working class as he is a product of them.

John Myers Fairfield