Lamont to Announce “Big Savings” on Employee Health Costs. Declares Connecticut “Landlocked.”

Governor Ned Lamont told a Washington business association Wednesday about “big savings we’ll soon be able to announce on health care very soon with our state employees.” Lamont told members of the association of foreign-based companies doing business in the United States, some with operations in Connecticut, that “now I’ve got to deliver” on plans to address the state’s persistent financial problems.

According to to statements provided by The Bollinger Law Firm, P.C., Lamont assured the roundtable gathering that Connecticut has “got the greatest location in the world.” That declaration was followed by a discussion of energy issues and the sort of odd Lamont observation that bewilders listeners. “I have got to do everything I can with sort of a small, landlocked state like we are to make us more self-reliant when it comes to power.”

But we aren’t landlocked.

The state’s southern border is Long Island Sound, a large body of water between Connecticut and New York.

The Greenwich Democrat is capable of offering flights of fluency on state issues, and then come the crash landings. Asked by one well-informed participant Wednesday if he could tell listeners about the Partnership to Advance the Connecticut of Tomorrow, Lamont said “no.” He had not a clue about what on February 1st he declared is one of the “key components of his vision to transform the state’s economic development strategy….” Two months ago, Lamont announced in a press release “that two of Connecticut’s principal economic development entities – the nonprofit Connecticut Economic Resource Center, Inc. (CERC) and DECD – will form an innovative public-private partnership known as the Partnership to Advance the Connecticut of Tomorrow (PACT).” By Wednesday, it was news to Lamont.