Democrat Jeff Desmarais says it. QAnon supporter Eric Berthel voted for Millstone deal.

Jeff Desmarais is running as a Democrat in one of the state’s handful of reliably Republican state Senate districts, the 32nd. It takes some brass to run a race like that and take the fight to the incumbent. Desmarais is meeting the moment.

The Watertown Democrat is reminding that Republican Eric Berthel voted for the 2017 Millstone deal that left ratepayers howling this summer. Berthel is the Q-Anon-supporting legislator who saw some virtues in the loony conspiratorial minded shadowy organization that is fixated on nonexistent Satan-worshippers who drink blood and control the media–while running child sex rings.
Bethel, Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Brookfield, Middlebury, Oxford, Roxbury, Seymour, Southbury, Washington, Watertown and Woodbury, that is your state senator.

QAnon came into public view in 2017–the same year Berthel voted for the Millstone deal. What must his fellow conspirator hunters think of that?

Desmarais texted supporters, in part, today:

A growing number of Independents are supporting Jeff Desmarais for State Senate. Our current senator, Eric Berthel, has become a career politician who is only in it for himself: regularly voting against us just to get his name in the paper.

Berthel voted against the largest tax cut in state history, and for the 2017 Millstone-Eversource deal that’s responsible for the recent spikes in our electric bill. 

Jeff Desmarais believes in cutting taxes and holding big corporations accountable to lower costs for our families.

A text message is not a policy seminar but Desmarais’ ought to prompt voters to seek fuller explanations–a debate, even–on the critical issue of the supply and price of electricity in Connecticut.

Berthel, not known for his interest in the details of legislation, was on the wrong side of the Senate Republican internal coup earlier this year.

Published September 27, 2024.