Senate continues to bar public from access. Capitol’s 3rd floor remains off-limits.

You can pay to attend a campaign fundraising event to meet Senate Democrats. You could volunteer for a Democrat running for the state Senate. Those would provide access to Democratic members of the Senate. You still may not approach them where they conduct the people’s business: the third floor of the State Capitol.

The people continue to be banned from proximity to the legislature’s upper chamber, long after the nation has the Covid-19 virus is under control through the application of advanced science as expanded in free nations. The Democrats running the state Senate refuse to follow the science and restore the public’s right to petition its government in person.

The public’s exclusion from the Capitol’s third floor cannot be due to Covid. Look at that photograph above of Senate Democratic leaders Martin Looney and Robert Duff campaigning in a crowded room only a month ago. Duff even donned a t-shirt proclaiming himself “Unapologetically Pro-Democracy” for the Danbury event. Disappointing if that vital declaration was reduced to an electioneering prop. So it can’t be Covid.

Published November 28, 2022.