Governor Dan Malloy and Republican opponent Tom Foley engaged in another intense debate Thursday night in a war over veracity. From the Hartford Courant:
Foley had previously offered a truce during the Hartford Courant debate last week at the University of Connecticut, but Malloy declined. Malloy countered, “Well, let me start with the truth. Crime is down in Bridgeport. … When you’re preaching to people to tell the truth, Tom, you should do it yourself. … You have spent two years attacking my integrity and my truthfulness. And now because we’re pushing back a little bit, you’re like a bully in the playyard who wants to call a peace now because finally somebody is answering what you’ve said for years about me.”
“I didn’t drive a company into bankruptcy. You did,” Malloy said. “You should tell the truth to the people who are watching, Tom. … I think fair is fair, Tom.”“You’re a person who is worth tens and tens of millions of dollars. You paid no income taxes two years in a row, Tom,” Malloy said.
“Listen, I really don’t have a response to the governor,” Foley responded in his one-minute rebuttal. “Connecticut has some very serious problems–some of them are problems that you caused through your tax hike and your anti-business policies. I think this campaign should focus on that.”
“Tom, if you had told the truth to the FBI, you wouldn’t have gotten either of the jobs” in President George W. Bush’s administration as an economic development official in Iraq and then as the U.S. ambassador to Ireland, Malloy said. “That’s the reality.
CT Post coverage here.
CT Mirror coverage here.
Stop the mudslinging, and tell us what you ASSHATS are going to do for this state!