Come to Connecticut…

…we’re “Still Revolutionary”. Well, maybe, not so much.

Back in the day of the American Revolution, if you wanted to move from Rhode Island to Connecticut, and needed help to do so, you could hire folks in Rhode Island to help you.  But not in the new “revolutionary” Connecticut.

If Connecticut is open for business, Bob Romano wants to know who turned out the lights.
Romano, owner of Warwick, R.I.-based Coutu Brothers Movers, applied several months ago to expand his current three-truck moving operation into North Stonington. By his estimation, Romano spent more than $6,000 doing everything the state [Connecticut] Department of Transportation told him to do: leasing a convenient location on Norwich-Westerly Road, paying his business-entity fee and even making repairs to the office space he intended to occupy.
Then, last week, a DOT hearing officer issued what Romano saw as a stunning denial of his application, saying the business owner had not proved there was a need for his services and noting that two other moving companies in the region had claimed new competition would hurt their businesses.

So much for “revolutionary”.

Connecticut is apparently the same old, same old.

 

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The Sound Off Sister was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and special trial attorney for the Department of Justice, Criminal Division; a partner in the Florida law firm of Shutts & Bowen, and an adjunct professor at the University of Miami, School of Law. The Sound Off Sister offers frequent commentary concerning legislation making its way through Congress, including the health reform legislation passed in early 2010.

10 Comments

  1. Plainvillian on May 14, 2012 at 8:28 pm

    Just one more colorful thread in the rich political tapestry that is Corrupticut.



  2. dairyair on May 14, 2012 at 10:40 pm

    Well put, Plainvillian!



  3. essneff on May 14, 2012 at 11:30 pm

    CT is “open for business” only for the right buisnesses….. you know, the ones that?that the taxpayers have to support through bonding……. so, Mumbles can make a big splash!! otherwise, they are at the mercy of CT’s suffocating?big goverment??



  4. stinkfoot on May 15, 2012 at 5:38 am

    There’s logic to the denial… a moving company would help enable the escape from this kleptocracy



  5. Dimsdale on May 15, 2012 at 11:25 am

    I think the word is “devolutionary”.? Romano should have taken some “come to CT” money from Danny.



  6. tedk205 on May 15, 2012 at 11:56 am

    Slogan should be “Come to Connecticut and Get Conned” or “I Got Conned in Connecticut”…..



  7. rickg on May 15, 2012 at 8:24 pm

    COME TO CONNECTICUT?????? I’m seriously concidering moving out of Konektikut. I’m praying that there will be some thing Revolutionary in November. Like less Damocrats in office.



  8. ricbee on May 15, 2012 at 8:55 pm

    All the dumb slogans in the world will get no where in Corrupitcut.



  9. PatRiot on May 15, 2012 at 10:36 pm

    So much for the free market.?
    “Legislation is hard, let’s just mandate.”?
    It took time to?legislate limiting the number of liqour stores any one persono can own. (?An odd form of job creation).?
    But now?a department can just pull the rug out on a business “just because”.? This guy has been Sibeliused ! !? And the DOT knows anything about reading a business plan ? ?.
    Obviously they knew there were other businesses already in existance and could have saved this guy money.?
    I wonder if he was the lone Republican of the 3 businesses?
    Someone is picking winners and losers.? ?



  10. mathlady on May 16, 2012 at 7:14 am

    Wonder if they’ll refund his business entity tax.



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