Mike Fedele, “I’m Rich! Ha Ha Ha.”
Who needs negative ads? In the new media age, this tells a tale of Mike Fedele arriving at the Capitol in his Ferrari and mooning over it.
The embed feature of this choice YouTube video is disabled, but click here for the link. It’s scored with a brilliant contemporary song, “I’m Rich” by, I believe, Mr. Rob Hodge from his album “Born King”.
The insidiously clever poster, as if he hasn’t done enough damage, observes, “Geez, maybe Mike Fedele should sell his Ferrari to pay for his campaign instead of asking taxpayers to do it.” Fedele took $2.5 million in taxpayer money for his campaign for governor while driving a choice chariot.
Diabolical, and not to be missed.
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Understand the Mrs. drives a Maserati. While you and I are being taxed to pay for his campaign, the Fedele’s are living in the lap of luxury. Those wealthy folks who want to run for office should use a chunk of their own wealth, not ours, to feed their ego-driven campaigns.
He’s even got a driver to and from work.
Wow, Mike. Maybe you could have been hosting a fundraiser that day instead of hanging out with your Ferrari club buddies comparing each others wealth…
I guess kevin didnt get invited back to the house to drink wine from Mike Fedele’s 1200 bottle wine collection (no joke!) His brother-in law is the sommelier at a local resturant and helps him add to his collection. Mike has three lines of income – rental properties, a coin laundry mat and Pinnacle. And he spend his money on his family only! Screw the public – pay for my election !
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Government by the super-duper wealthy, OR by the merely super-wealthy? Tough call for the working people of Connecticut.
Stan, you forgot one other source of income: the constitutional office he holds. Mike is still drawing the six figure state salary he has been enjoying for six years.
I believe that Mike also owns a vineyard somewhere and a few other vacation properties. And FYI, buying a ferrari isn’t like buying a beamer or an audi… a new ferrari, fully loaded, will run you about a quarter million dollars. In other words, you don’t buy one unless you have some serious serious scratch.
The sad thing is that, as a general rule, I really don’t think candidates should be judged for being wealthy and successful. Mike’s success is admirable. Unfortunately, it raises serious questions about his decision to ask taxpayers to foot the bill for his campaign.
* sorry, he’s only been lieutenant governor for four years. But as a state rep, he also enjoyed a yearly salary of around 30,000. Pocket change I guess.
It doesn’t really matter what Mr. Fedele does between now and election day. As someone who used to mail congratulation letters to long term state employees when he first took office, all of a sudden he’s turned on them in his television ads. Shame on you Mr. Fedele. Shame on you for thinking that state employees got us into this mess. They will remember in November. You may have some people fooled, but the major majority are selecting the winning and hopeful governor. Get used to it.
its not an issue of his wealth. I don’t think we should denounce his success…what we should be concerned about is the fact that he worked hard for his toys and luxuries…but took taxpayer money because “it’s there”. If he wanted the governorship so badly why didn’t he work hard to fund raise.
For starters – Mike has never run anyone off the road in his Ferrari or any other car.
Thanks to Foley’s gov’t (read: “TAXPAYER MONEY”) contracts and ill gotten well engineered bankruptcy profits; Tom Foley can buy & sell Fedele.
From his own companies website:
http://www.stevensaviation.com/about.php
“….the US Department of Defense on a number of significant depot maintenance, modification and upgrade programs. “
ACR,
You say Tom Foley can buy and sell Fedele, but we have yet to hear any figures as to what Mike’s actually worth. Do you care to give us a guestimation of what type of wealth we’re talking about? Because ferrari’s (250,000), massive wine collections, and Yankees dugout tickets (around 2,000 per game I believe) sound like an awful, awful lot of money. Mike is spending more per week on baseball tickets than most people in this state see in their paycheck. All this makes it seem like he’s filthy stinking rich, not just “oh I make a nice salary so I can afford Coach bags for my wife” rich.
Doug, you’re a desperate man, just like your candidate but hey, you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do.
Keep on doing it Doug, slash and burn, tear the bark off him, GO GET ‘EM, attack dog, pit viper, etc.
Doug, how do you as someone who exposes such virtues as “loyalty” and the “11th Commandment” rationalize your pathetic sickening behavior to yourself?
EdM – drop dead.
Clearly you’ve chosen to forget what the challenger in 1986 pulled on the convention endorsed candidate via their well organized whisper campaign.
No one’s come within a mile of that behavior this cycle.
(Now that you mention it, maybe we should.)
Fuzzy – You’re about 100K high on what a 360 Modena went for new.
Mike’s Ferrari went for about the same as a full blown Mercedes S Class; the Quattroporte (Maserati) sedan a full third less, and substantially less than many Porsches.
That the two vehicles are gorgeous sexy cars is why people notice them despite their being priced no higher than many less exciting (indeed rather boring) luxury vehicles.
I’ve long considered the natural good looks of most Italian cars as further evidence of a kind and loving God.
http://authentic-connecticut-republican.blogspot.com/2010/03/2010-alfa-romeo.html
Again, I think you all have incorrect figures and information. The money Fedele used and continues to use to purchase items in his life were made doing hard work and providing for his family. The “taxpayer money” Foley keeps referring to simply isn’t “taxpayer money”. You should research where it actually comes from and you will see it’s not a line item taken out of our paychecks.
Also, I looked into where the video was shot and get this…It was in Hartford where Fedele was volunteering his time, car, etc on Father’s Day, to drive terminally ill children around from the Hospital. Wow, what a jerk, huh?! Maybe people shouldn’t take video’s and blog posts for what they seem and use their intellegence to delve a bit deeper into the real candidate.
Temper temper Doug. I never told you to “drop dead” so you really need to learn how to control yourself. You need to spend less time blogging and more time getting Republicans elected. Joe Markley needs your help, this isn’t going to be a shoe-in against Barry so step away from the keyboard and do something productive instead of engaging in endless hours of mental masturbation on the internet for cryin’ out loud.
So you’re rationalizing your behavior by saying “Yes, I’m a nasty-mouthed prick who trashes Tom Foley on a regular basis BUT that’s okay because it’s not as bad as something that happened three decades ago.”
Just a bit of advice for you Doug, the next time a cop asks you why you broke the law, don’t reply with “Yeah well I know a guy who in 1986 broke more laws than I did!” You’re still GUILTY as charged no matter how many other people break the law too.
Rebecca, you’re buying into the SEEC myth about where the taxpayer money comes from to pay for political campaigns. Yes, it comes from the abandoned property fund and money from the abandoned property fund eventually makes it’s way into the GENERAL FUND. If the money gets stolen first by the SEEC to fund political campaigns then TAXPAYER MONEY needs to be used to replace the money that the SEEC took. So yes, the CEP is a TAXPAYER FUNDED system, no two ways about it. You, the SEEC and the rest of the supporters can keep claiming it’s not taxpayer funded but we all know that it is and your pathetically weak argument make you look foolish.
The Ferrari show that Mike Fedele brought his car to was not JUST for driving sick kids to the hospital. It’s a yearly event put on the the Ferrari Club of America/New England Region. It’s a two day event including a cocktail party, a judging competition (Concorso) and a picnic. The main focus and purpose of the event is the judging competition (Concorso). One small part is what you mentioned but you grossly misrepresented what the event was by lying about it. That’s not good. I can speak with authority about this because I was actually there and I’ll bet the farm that you weren’t.
Rebecca,
What do you think they would do with the escheat money if it wasn’t used to fund the incumbent protection program? Just burn it!?
It is “taxpayer money” in that it belongs to us, the taxpayers. If you want to be more accurate, you can call it “public treasury money” since I suppose it also belongs to people who don’t pay taxes but live here.
Nobody is begrudging Mike for being wealthy. It’s his choice to use CEP that has people riled up.
HAHA this video is so good. Come on Fedele, give me a break. How can anyone take you seriously with a Ferrari? He literally is burning our money away
Perhaps they should all disclose their tax returns, not that their personal wealth really matters.
>>Temper temper Doug. I never told you to “drop dead”
No – But I did tell you to; take the advice; you’re using up airspace that could be used for a potted plant and seeing as at least they put out some small amount of O2 that makes them more valuable.
I’ve no use for anonymous pansies.
Doug, nice job avoiding the obvious points I made about your offensive behavior. When you’re dead wrong, simply ignore that fact, attack and try and change the subject.
You constantly preach the “11th commandment” and never abide by it yourself. You spend hours and days shooting off your stupid mouth on blogs and do nothing to help get Republicans elected in your district. When your challenged on this you become even more nasty, rude, offensive and bordering on violent and you should be ashamed of yourself.
Why don’t you just resign from State Central and let someone else have the job that actually cares about the party instead of a paid political hack like you who takes a cut from your lawn sign buddy. And don’t say you don’t because we all know it’s true.
>>You constantly preach the “11th commandment”
– Cite
>>takes a cut from your lawn sign buddy.
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Doug, Markley needs money and you haven’t given him one dime, why is that? Fedele is paying you plenty of money with his taxpayer dollars, the least you could do is help Joe Markley with a five dollar contribution.
How about you take a full week off from blogging and get off your a$$ and start hitting doors in Southington asking people to contribute to Joe’s campaign? Why do you refuse to do that?
I’d bet that if you put 10% of the time and effort into raising money for Joe that you do wasting time blogging, twittering and all that useless crap, you’d have him at the 15K level by the middle of August.
But no, I’ll bet you were in New London last night marching with Fedele’s “rally” crew before the useless debate then when you got home, you jumped right back on your computer to post yet more stupid comments like the last two here instead of putting a game plan together on how you’re going to get a Republican State Senator elected in the 16th this year. You wasted a whole day doing nothing for Joe Markley but instead insisted on blogging, driving back and forth to New London, acting stupid in a “demonstration” for Fedele (who will LOSE on August 10th) and you think this is a good use of your time? No wonder you can win any legislative seats in Southington. You really need to reset your personal priorities Doug, the sooner the better.
Totally pathetic, I don’t know how this guy can even pretend to call himself a fiscal conservative. Just the fact that he took taxpayer money to fund his campaign as a Republican is bad enough, but the fact that he had enough money to fund the campaign himself just makes it even more outrageous. He’s just so incompetent it blows my mind.
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