The 3 B’s

To the Editor:

Blumenthal is Bad for Business. There is a place for an attorney general in our state, and thank God for them when untoward contractors or product manufacturers either steal from us or harm our health. This is the area where AGs were meant to operate. But when an AG branches off from that area, into lawsuits with other Connecticut state agencies, or suing as the plaintiff and not under a specific statute or as legal counsel for a state agency (Blumenthal v Robin Barnes), then Mr Blumenthal gets taught a very expensive lesson by the Connecticut Supreme Court, that his office does not have broad common law powers. These were taxpayer’s dollars that were spent on these fiascos.

On another expensive foray, a Cross Sound Cable, already buried in the mud and operational, gets shut down by lawsuit from the Connecticut AG’s office. His campaign of ‘02 claims environmental preservation. The cable is already there; his suit was tied to a depth issue on one section, less than a football field long. It took a New York City blackout and an emergency powers order from Washington to turn it on and alleviate the blackout of ‘03 for New York City. Did any fish die or pollution occur during its operation this past year, no? And then surprise, Southwestern Connecticut gets a new rate structure, allowed significant rate increases to all of us, per federal agency rules. Is this payback for an AG that has operated his office outside the bounds that it was statutorily mandated to operate?

Would you want to move your consumer products business, oil and gas business, or multibillion dollar company to a state where Mr. Blumenthal roams? Do you think our local economy will grow under a Blumenthal administration? I think not.

Kevin O’Neill

28 Washbrook Road, Newtown                           December 9, 2004