CT-GOV: As Ned Lamont (D) touts record, Josh Elliott's (D) campaign strengthens
As summer approaches, the differences between his official and campaign schedules are blurring, an advantage of incumbency as Lamont labors to reinforce the public perception of his nearly eight years in office as his liberal Democratic challenger, Rep. Josh Elliott of Hamden, gets closer to being able to afford a television advertising campaign that promises to be aggressive.
Elliott consistently has faulted Lamont, a candidate seeking a third term, for refusing to raises taxes on the wealthy, a theme he intends to pursue once he gets his public financing grant. Elliott is a fan of the 4% surtax Massachusetts imposes on annual incomes exceeding $1.1 million.
The surtax, which is on top of the state’s 5% base rate, has raised $3.1 billion in the first 10 months of the current fiscal year — nearly one third more than was projected, The Boston Globe recently reported.
“We have a full slate of plans to address the affordability crisis in our state and not do it on the backs of working families, the way the governor has,” Elliott said Monday. “So it is about both explaining to the public the way that Ned Lamont continues to fail them — and that while they may like him, he is also the sole reason that they’re struggling to live in our state.”
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