As a former Connecticut voter, I attest that John Rowland was the first (R) politician & governor to disillusion me. He’s the original poster boy for political fraud for me.
Introducing the state income tax, as he had promised NOT to do, was the first in a long series of years where I just kept hoping life in CT would get better.
It didn’t - and I left, as have many, many others.
Weicker introduced the tax
Lowell Wieker implemented the income tax. That was the year I left.
I knew John Rowland when he was a Waterbury Councilman. He sold his soul when he went to congress. It saddens me every time I think about it. He sold it again in the Governors mansion, this time he got caught taking free work on his cabin on Bantam Lake, and a few other things.
Sadly now he has gotten caught, convicted and will be doing time again. I hope they send him someplace nasty this time, not a camp in Pennsylvania with his fellow crooked Connecticut polititians.