Bob Stefanowski, the GOP nominee for governor, and his running mate Laura Devlin are campaigning on a plan to fix Connecticut’s economy. But first, they have to convince voters that it’s broken.
On Tuesday morning, at a Bruegger’s Bagels shop in New Haven, Stefanowski and Devlin made their case.
“The economy is in a freefall,” Stefanowski said, citing a Friday report from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, which showed Connecticut’s economy declined 4.7% in the second quarter of this year, April through June. That growth rate was second-worst nationally.
“We know why Gov. Lamont won’t admit it — because it’s an election year,” Stefanowski said. “But at a certain point, you have to put the people ahead of politics, and you have to realize that people are struggling.”
The location of the press conference, across…
