Just a quick sigh of vast relief and thanks!

As an unaffiliated voter, I am forced unfairly, through the improper use of my tax dollars, to pay for the primaries of political parties, but I am unable to vote in those primaries. This, I believe is an unconstitutional use of tax dollars for special interests, especially in light of the fact that more than half the registered voters in Connecticut are unaffiliated, or, as we prefer to call ourselves, independent. After all, we, the people, do not pay for conventions for the political parties, and the primaries are nothing but extensions of such conventions. The political parties are private entities and should be forced to reimburse the state for the use of state and municipal voting facilities. After all, making taxpayers pay for political primaries is akin to making taxpayers pay for union elections. It's absolutely senseless. But, I digress (please contact your representatives about this - although you, like me, probably won't get anywhere, since you will be trying to convince party hacks to actually put the needs of the people over the pocketbooks of their own political parties. . . . ).

In any case, back to the title of this entry - to the folks who voted in the Democratic Primary - thank you so very much for not voting for Ned Lamont to be your candidate for governor. Between the two candidates (and only between the two candidates, because there may be others out there more qualified), I do believe that you chose wisely, so thank you.

I'm sorry to learn that Justin Bernier lost the Republican primary for the US Congressional Fifth District for Connecticut, but the important thing now is to get Chris Murphy out of the House of Representatives, because, in my eyes, he does nothing but represent the Democratic Party and its and his own interests over the interests of the people whom he is actually supposed to represent.

In other words, folks, let's vote the career politicians OUT this November! Our Founding Fathers never anticipated career politicians, but instead, ordinary citizens who would serve their districts/states for a term or two and go back to their lives, not folks who would vote themselves pay raises and mooch off the backs of hard working Americans by providing themselves with the best health care our money can buy, and serve until they die in office. We, the people, however, are partly to blame for this, because we re-elect them. It's time for us to wise up and start enforcing our own term limits by voting out long-term incumbents (gee, my spell check wanted to change incumbents to incompetents - perhaps it knows something I don't?????).