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 ...
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?
She was probably watching all the Leftists do it, and thought she could do it too.
She didn’t understand the rules.
Erin is a liberal
Meanwhile the generic Democrat steals everything that isn’t nailed down and gets away with it even if it comes to light.
They use our scruples against us. Just the way it is.
"...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?
I'm thinking maybe the Connecticut Republican Party Chairman, (Ben Proto) should send an invoice to the Democrat Party stamped, "For Services Rendered"
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