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"They want to run up the deficit and then say a high debt is the reason they've gotta cut all the things for working people."

When it comes to protecting Wall Street at the expense of the middle class, it's no shock that Corporate Democrat Jim Himes and Republican-Light Elizabeth Esty, voted to throw the working class under the bus.

Last week, Dem Gov. Dan Malloy of Connecticut received the full support of the state's education boards. That's a mistake. Here are 5 reasons teachers should NOT support Gov. Malloy.

Not that long ago, it looked as if former ambassador and Bush/Cheney BFF Tom Foley was going to make ethics reform a central feature of his "sequel" campaign for governor of Connecticut. He introduced (failed) legislation, released an onslaught of ads saying as much, and presented his case to the media. Of course, that was before all the allegations of his unethical campaigning started to pour out.

Over the last eight weeks, hundreds of volunteers in Connecticut spent countless hours collecting more than the 7,500 signatures necessary to ensure that voters have an option other than voting for Dannel Malloy or Tom Foley in this year's gubernatorial election. However, a new report alleges that some of the town clerks in charge with tabulating and verifying the signatures are illegally dismissing some signatures based on a lack of optional information. As if it wasn't already hard enough to hear a third party voice in a rigged system.

The latest NYT/CBS poll of the Connecticut governor's race is devastating to incumbent Dan Malloy — in particular its assessment of the Democrat's standing among independent voters. In a look at gubernatorial races across the country, in which he affirmed the conventional wisdom that Republicans are likely to do well this fall, Nate Silver recently opined that Tom Foley has a 58 percent chance of winning versus Dan Malloy's 42 percent in a head-to-head rematch of the 2010 gubernatorial contest. But it's not all bad news for Malloy.

At the end of May, Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy stunned healthcare advocates when he vetoed an important bill that would have required insurance companies to provide data about how much substance abuse coverage and related mental health care they are actually providing Connecticut residents. Considering that the cost of appropriate substance abuse treatment and mental health services is far cheaper and more effective than dealing with the resulting violence and incarceration that often results from inadequate treatment, the bill was extremely appropriate.

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy ran as pro-campaign finance reform candidate, so it seems especially duplicitous for him to change the rules to gather as much cash as he can. He even backs the Democratic Governors Association's lawsuit against the state, in an attempt to coordinate his campaign with their coffers.

Thanks to Governor Malloy and Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor you can hear the wild cheering from the corporate education reform industry as millions of dollars in taxpayer funds continue to flow to out-of-state companies so that they can come here to tell Connecticut's teachers, administrators and public schools how to implement the Common Core and how to "improve."

At today's State Board of Education meeting, Governor Dannel "Dan" Malloy's appointees will vote to re-commit Connecticut to the Common Core and then vote to divert scarce public funds to new charter schools in Connecticut. Four new charter school applications are up for vote today, and some of them have some scary ties to the Malloy Administration.

Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy is trying to force charter schools down the throats of his constituents. But parents and friends of Clark Elementary School have risen up in anger, stopping the delivery of that school into private hands. The hands of, it turns out, close associates of the Governor.

In an extraordinary statement about the fundamental lack of commitment to Connecticut citizens, the Hartford Board of Education will be meeting tonight to authorize Superintendent Christina Kishimoto to extend the Hartford Board of Education's contract with Teach for America, costing Connecticut and Hartford taxpayers an additional $650,940. Meanwhile, 136,500 Connecticut residents remain unemployed including many trained teachers who already hold Connecticut teacher certificates.