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Erin Stewart, accused of fraud as mayor, suspends campaign for governor
CT Mirror ^ | May 14, 2026 | Mark Pazniokas

Posted on 05/14/2026 6:56:41 PM PDT by Psalm 73

Erin Stewart suspended her campaign for governor of Connecticut Thursday after an investigative report concluded that her personal use of a city credit card as mayor of New Britain was a “repeated and deliberate circumvention of the city’s purchase order system to benefit herself, members of her family, and her political campaigns.”

The “great majority” of the $207,076 in purchases charged to Stewart’s city-issued credit card over nearly a decade were unrelated to city business, and they warrant a criminal investigation by state and federal criminal authorities...

(Excerpt) Read more at ctmirror.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: 2026; connecticut; corruption; crime; ct; erinstewart; gopestablishment; governor; rino; stewart; uniparty

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How did she ever think her opponents would not know this?

Maybe because the Connecticut Republican Party Chairman, Ben Proto didn't think to look into her background before anointing her?

So why exactly do the Democrats keep eating our lunch here in the Constitution State, Ben?

Buehler? Buehler?

1 posted on 05/14/2026 6:56:41 PM PDT by Psalm 73
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2 posted on 05/14/2026 7:01:20 PM PDT by Liz (Winston Churchill: “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”)
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To: Psalm 73

She was probably watching all the Leftists do it, and thought she could do it too.

She didn’t understand the rules.


3 posted on 05/14/2026 7:07:53 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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Erin is a liberal


4 posted on 05/14/2026 10:48:51 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go ...)
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