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Mark Stewart Greenstein
Mark Stewart Greenstein (Epic Party) (also known as Greenie) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Vermont. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Greenstein (Democratic Party) also ran for election for President of the United States. He lost as a write-in in the Democratic convention on August 5, 2024.
Greenstein was an Amigo Constitution Party candidate for Governor of Connecticut. Greenstein lost the general election on November 6, 2018.[1]
In 2020, Greenstein participated in a Candidate Conversation hosted by Ballotpedia and EnCiv. Click here to view the recording.
Biography
Mark Stewart Greenstein was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He earned a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1986. His career experience includes working as a educator and business owner. He has been affiliated with Beth David Synagogue.[2]
Elections
2024 Presidential election
- See also: Democratic presidential nomination, 2024
The Democratic Party selected Vice President Kamala Harris (D) as its nominee during a virtual roll call vote on August 2, 2024, ahead of the in-person 2024 Democratic National Convention, which took place from August 19-22, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois.[3][4][5][6][7]
2024 U.S. Senate election
See also: United States Senate election in Vermont, 2024
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Vermont
The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. Senate Vermont on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Bernie Sanders (Independent) | 63.2 | 229,429 |
 | Gerald Malloy (R)  | 32.1 | 116,512 | |
 | Steve Berry (Independent) | 2.2 | 7,941 | |
 | Matthew Hill (L) | 1.2 | 4,530 | |
 | Justin Schoville (Green Mountain Peace and Justice Party of Vermont) | 0.9 | 3,339 | |
 | Mark Stewart Greenstein (Epic Party) | 0.3 | 1,104 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 398 | ||
| Total votes: 363,253 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Bernie Sanders (D)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Vermont
Incumbent Bernie Sanders advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Vermont on August 13, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bernie Sanders | 98.8 | 48,189 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.2 | 583 | ||
| Total votes: 48,772 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Vermont
Gerald Malloy advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Vermont on August 13, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Gerald Malloy | 96.4 | 20,383 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 3.6 | 772 | ||
| Total votes: 21,155 | |||
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Endorsements
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2023
See also: Mayoral election in Hartford, Connecticut (2023)
General election
General election for Mayor of Hartford
The following candidates ran in the general election for Mayor of Hartford on November 7, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Arunan Arulampalam (D) | 62.0 | 4,702 |
| Nick Lebron (Independent) | 12.0 | 907 | ||
 | Eric Coleman (Independent) (Write-in) | 10.6 | 803 | |
| Michael McGarry (R) | 6.4 | 485 | ||
| J. Stan McCauley (Independent) | 5.8 | 443 | ||
| Giselle Gigi Jacobs (Independent) | 2.8 | 213 | ||
| Mark Stewart Greenstein (Independent) | 0.2 | 18 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 7 | ||
| Total votes: 7,578 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Mayor of Hartford
Arunan Arulampalam defeated Eric Coleman and John Fonfara in the Democratic primary for Mayor of Hartford on September 12, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Arunan Arulampalam | 40.5 | 2,121 |
| Eric Coleman | 30.1 | 1,574 | |
 | John Fonfara | 29.4 | 1,540 | |
| Total votes: 5,235 | |||
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2020
See also: Connecticut House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Connecticut House of Representatives District 1
Incumbent Matthew Ritter defeated Mark Stewart Greenstein and Daniel Piper in the general election for Connecticut House of Representatives District 1 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Matthew Ritter (D) | 91.8 | 5,193 |
| Mark Stewart Greenstein (Epic Party) | 5.1 | 290 | |
 | Daniel Piper (Socialist Resurgence Party) | 3.1 | 176 | |
| Total votes: 5,659 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Matthew Ritter advanced from the Democratic primary for Connecticut House of Representatives District 1.
2019
See also: Connecticut state legislative special elections, 2019
General election
Special general election for Connecticut State Senate District 5
Derek Slap defeated Bill Wadsworth, Jeffrey Przech, and Mark Stewart Greenstein in the special general election for Connecticut State Senate District 5 on February 26, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Derek Slap (D) | 63.3 | 6,063 |
| Bill Wadsworth (R) | 34.3 | 3,284 | ||
 | Jeffrey Przech (Independent) | 1.9 | 186 | |
| Mark Stewart Greenstein (Amigo Constitution Party) | 0.5 | 51 | |
| Total votes: 9,584 | |||
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2018
See also: Connecticut gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2018
General election
General election for Governor of Connecticut
Ned Lamont defeated Bob Stefanowski, Oz Griebel, Rod Hanscomb, and Mark Stewart Greenstein in the general election for Governor of Connecticut on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ned Lamont (D) | 49.4 | 694,510 |
 | Bob Stefanowski (R) | 46.2 | 650,138 | |
 | Oz Griebel (Griebel Frank for CT Party) | 3.9 | 54,741 | |
| Rod Hanscomb (L) | 0.4 | 6,086 | ||
| Mark Stewart Greenstein (Amigo Constitution Party) | 0.1 | 1,254 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 74 | ||
| Total votes: 1,406,803 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Kameron Scott (Independent)
- Micah Welintukonis (Independent)
- Thomas Ford (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Governor of Connecticut
Ned Lamont defeated Joe Ganim in the Democratic primary for Governor of Connecticut on August 14, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ned Lamont | 81.2 | 172,567 |
| Joe Ganim | 18.8 | 39,976 | ||
| Total votes: 212,543 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jonathan Harris (D)
- Lee Whitnum (D)
- Betheona Guiles-Smith (D)
- Guy Smith (D)
- Jacey Wyatt (D)
- Luke Bronin (D)
- Sean Connolly (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Governor of Connecticut
Bob Stefanowski defeated Mark Boughton, David Stemerman, Tim Herbst, and Steve Obsitnik in the Republican primary for Governor of Connecticut on August 14, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bob Stefanowski | 29.4 | 42,041 |
 | Mark Boughton | 21.3 | 30,475 | |
 | David Stemerman | 18.3 | 26,177 | |
 | Tim Herbst | 17.5 | 25,063 | |
 | Steve Obsitnik | 13.4 | 19,102 | |
| Total votes: 142,858 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Eric Mastroianni (R)
- David Walker (R)
- Antonietta Boucher (R)
- Dave Walker (R)
- Peter Thalheim (R)
- Joseph Visconti (R)
- Mark Lauretti (R)
- Peter Lumaj (R)
- Prasad Srinivasan (R)
- Scott Merrell (R)
- Michael Handler (R)
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Campaign website
Stewart Greenstein’s campaign website stated the following:
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Athletics
Athletics involves very serious issues for individuals and society, but I'll occasionally add my take on: Budget I, Mark Stewart, am the candidate with the most severe spending reduction proposals. The more our deficits grow, the more my candidacy strengthens. The more our legislators and bureaucrats fail to be straightforward, the more voters are emboldened to throw them out, whatever their pedigree. I am also the only candidate who expects to give voters their tax money back. With a good General Assembly in place, Connecticut will abolish the income tax. And with good negotiation with the Federal Treasury Department (yes, this is one Democrat who believes working WITH Trump-Pence is good for Connecticut) we will let CT residents pay only a small portion of their federal income tax. A governor can also exercise good budgeting of his own office. I am pledged to trimming my budget by 20% per year. I also believe the governor's office, like some other state offices, can EARN MONEY for the state. As a tiny example, I will rent out some Governor's mansion bedrooms to tourists (a contingency page is already up on AirBnB) and let the state keep the revenue. With two exceptions, a state legislature should be budgeting like a family. Our General Assembly has allowed horrible budgeting for the past 35 years. It has foisted liability on younger generations, which is immoral. This will not happen on my watch. With this governor's resolve, I expect businesses will be attracted to Connecticut. That ITSELF will help our budgeting. But I do not incorporate this speculation into rosy-scenario budgeting. The Charity Smorgasbord Civics Government can't practice virtue as well as individuals. Government can't teach virtue as well as pastors, parents, rabbis, and private counselors. That's because the most well-meaning, selfless people within government service are inevitably part of a political process that dilutes their ideals. Whatever an individual wants or needs, the bureaucrats want and need it less. The bureaucrat typically has to compromise to get some instead of none. Individuals do not have to compromise. Single families and private groups get more done, better, than legislatures and bureaucrats. We need to frame debates on how to return more power to the individuals and private groups, and remove power from those who cannot completely enact our best interests. The beauty is that free markets and minimal regulations have proven themselves to bring us more goods, more services, better health, and higher prosperity than governments ever will. This part of Mark's Civic efforts is an as EDUCATOR. He routinely speaks with student groups to elaborate in areas of economics, civics and ethics in ways their school-teachers often can't. Mark's campaign thus has National implication in the realm of civics. People in other states need to pay attention to what the Stewart for Liberty campaign is expounding. Crime Connecticut is fortunate to be in the lower third of violent crime reports (15th of 50). But the government should be working to lower it still. Even Vermont, Maine, Virginia, and Wyoming (#s 1, 2, 3, an 4) should not be smug if there are preventable violent crimes within their borders. Protecting public safety is a basic function of government, the most important function according to classical liberalism. For every reported criminal activity, there is a multiple above that that go unreported. For every reported criminal act, there are some criminal attempts that are thwarted. We should be working to deter all attempts. Deterrence without becoming a police state is a delicate balance. I err on the side of deterrence. My balancing is to use good citizens more often to help the police. "If you see something, say something" is wise. Police can use the extra eyes an ears that good citizenry provide. Deterrence includes protecting against cyber-crime. I'm the candidate who would spend MORE money on active-duty State Police, including a cyber-crime institute. We will detect impersonators, root out fraudsters, and recoup stolen sums, even if it means going across state lines to "out-of-state" banks. The videos here will eventually build to important discussions on confinement, deterrence, rehabilitation, and restitution.
The Good: it prioritizes in one of the most important areas of life. The Bad: it can lead to complacency in education - that if the state government is funding and administering education we can rely on it to be good education. The way to have the Good without the Bad is to make private education the model. The State-run schools become both leaders and back-stops; they follow some of the better private school practices, and they lead where the expertise of state employees can show all a better way. State funding and state ideas can elevate education to leadership in many areas. Because the state may be behind certain research funding, we can attract more dollars from out-of-state. Because the state can provide education-to-work opportunities, we can attract more families to settle here for their K-12 students, and more university students to enroll here. My method for attracting more families is "First 500". This school-choice, "bottom-up" support for schools, via vouchers, makes it REALLY appealing for families:
Not only will more families happily make their homes here, first 500 will attract very good teachers too. Market forces give us the best computers, clothing, phones, and foods. With the market back in education, we'll have the best for our students.
The state can also be a forceful "driver" of environmental improvements nationwide. Connecticut can commit to buying a good new product in bulk -- spurring better research and lower prices. This is improved fourfold if we are cooperating regionally with other New England states, and twelvefold if cooperating with New York and New Jersey. We share the same North Atlantic Ocean, and adjacent airspace, so regional cooperation makes great sense. Good environmental science deserves to be strengthened. My office will try hard to budget for better testing and better remediation. We will help fund firms that show promising clean technologies. We can help draw talented young scientists and engineers to the state to work on air and water quality. We must stay wary though. Many good organizations that are concerned about the environment get hijacked by bad science and bad politics. The environmental movement at the national level has been overrun by Marxists. These people use "the environment" as a sledgehammer against small business and small property owners. They even put a harness on food production, and their national policies make food prices unnecessarily high, especially hurting poor people. These Marxists delay construction needlessly; they derail good projects. Our good instincts to live healthier lives cannot be subverted by those whose overarching goal is bring down established institutions. Out General Assembly and our evaluators within DEEP need to stick with good science, and to be grounded in helping humanity. Fair Taxation A Governor Mark Stewart has one overarching tax policy: we recoup what we spend almost immediately. Short of a WWII-like emergency, if state spending rises by 1.5% in 2019, we MUST collect the difference in 2020. We do not run budget deficits. That causes planning to go awry and increases borrowing costs. The remaining forms of taxation are all negotiable. My preference is for user fees instead of income taxes. Thus I would:
Now, these reductions can only come with massive reductions in spending. Elsewhere I discuss what's needed, including replacing state individual welfare with private welfare and never paying a dime for new pensions. Should this combination fall short, then I believe in user fees for roads, and gradually working in user fees for non-school activities taking place at school sites. I also have the expectation that the CT Lottery can add nearly $500M annually to the General Fund from out-of-state sales. Remember, we will see an abundance of revenue from sales taxation on online purchases, whether or not North Dakota v. Quill is overturned. How to Fix the CT Budget. From Crisis to Democratic Elegance For Businesses This nation, and this state, should never lose sight of need for robust business. At the government level, that generally means getting out of the way. State government has to protect safety; beyond that, it should restrict with extreme deference to freedom. That means bargaining contracts, health care policies, hiring policies, retirement policies, and discrimination policies should be left to employees and employers in a beautiful cauldron called "The Free Market". Yes, even employment discrimination. There are very few "crackers" left in Connecticut. If they are still so stupid as to not want to employ racial minorities, fine. Let them them lose their talents; and let them lose angry customers, minority and majority, to more enlightened competitors. Let the few misogynist employers who might still be left in CT also suffer the consequences of their stupidity. Connecticut has been hurt by overzealous regulation. Connecticut's entrepreneurial class has been stifled by needless forms, unnecessary intrusions, restrictive regulations, and fear of law suits. Our legislators at times regulate the small to protect the powerful. That explains requiring 500 hours of hair styling school before a young woman can open a braiding business; it explains high barriers for a business to self-insure, and it explains why no small homeowner or farmer can become a solar energy generator (and thereby earn money on her property and reduce neighbors' utility bills.). The state can be a good collaborator with business. In transportation and environmental hazard remediation the state has to. In education, it should. My largest expansion of state services to business is "First 500", so contractors can be building, shaping, and administering to schools. In incubating talent, the state would be wise to help our businesses more. We have loads of talented youngsters who will do innovative work for a variety of companies; we need to assure that regulations don't stymie their hiring or their continued training. Signifcant Savings For Families The 10% can be considered a tithe, or the price of “leaving us alone”. It’s a necessary price for the freedom we are about to receive. With it, families will keep 90% of the tax money that goes to activities they don’t use and will not use. I and others have calculated the costs of the Federal government conducting its Constitutionally-authorized operations. The largest of these, by far, is defense. Annual expenses for the other powers delegated to the federal government, including coining money, providing border enforcement, naturalizing citizens, establishing post offices, operating the courts, regulating foreign commerce, and running the patent office collectively don’t equate to even 20% of the defense budget. All these operations PLUS defense sum to at most 26% percent of the budget. The remaining 74% are social programs not authorized by the Constitution. This includes Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, NLRB administration, NASA (except perhaps that related to space-based defense), ethanol programs, housing programs, nutrition programs, K-12 education, university education and all aspects of corporate welfare not related to defense or border enforcement. This is the 74% that should not be funded involuntarily. Much of our Congress has felt otherwise for the last 80 years. But that is the nature of power: Congressmen like enlarged federal powers because enlargement gives them more clout, more likeability, and more ability to get re-elected. But the truth is that Congress is limited to the powers listed in Article I section 8. Supreme Court decisions from the 1930s onward to justify Congress overreach are themselves wayward. Those decisions can be revisited – we are not stuck with them permanently. There are federal government benefits that are hard to avoid. It regulates the radio spectrum, air traffic, wireless phone transmissions, air quality, drainage, nuclear waste disposal, and some parts of highway maintenance. We owe the Feds for our use of these, even if they are unconstitutional. But their cost can be quantified and use can be approximated. These can be recouped by user fees. If the FCCs budget is $800,000,000 and there are 150,000,000 US households, a household’s cost of using the FCC’s regulated stations and radio spectrum is $5.33. If the Federal assistance to agriculture (also unconstitutional) is $2,000,000,000, a family’s share that uses domestic agriculture is $13.33. Add the costs of the unconstitutional services you use. Most households will find this is under $4000. For the family using federal unconstitutional services at half this amount, it’s a mere $2000. Now add the constitutional share, approximately 24% of your current tax bill. Then add 10%. A family whose federal income tax is currently $50,000 would thus pay (.24 x $50,000) + $2000 = $14,800. Then you add 10% for the Feds’ tithe. Total Federal tax liability: $16,200. Prior liability was $50,000. Now, with this big reduction, you are staying away from the Federal Government’s other benefits. You are not taking a boat out on Long Island Sound; you are not watching PBS; you are not attending federally funded museums, or if you do you are paying a surcharge for your entry. Same with National Parks: you don’t set foot in a National Park without paying a surcharge for that visit. Yes, we need to monitor freeloaders, but your tax-saving return comes with a permission to be electronically (but not intrusively) monitored. “Three and Out” is Connecticut’s compliance with the Constitution, while keeping money with its own families, and ultimately supporting the federal government. Here are the three requirements for being protected by Three And Out: 1.) Remove your substantial assets from the banking system. Connecticut’s armed forces can protect you from federal seizure of your real property and your person; we can’t protect against a wayward Treasury Department that doesn’t feel a 10% windfall is good enough freezing or seizing $ in your accounts. Switch to BitCoin or other Cryptocurrencies. 2.) Track your uses of Federal Services. The State Comptroller’s office will list activities and the proportionate share that is owing to the federal government. 3,)File your tax forms. This is not a system for staying outside the system; it is to work within the system. For all workers whose federal income tax is withheld from each paycheck, the state will be negotiating to route these payments to the State’s Withholding office if not to you directly. Constitutionalists have favored direct payments ever since the 1940’s when FDR and a compliant Congress chose to withhold taxes from paychecks. Connecticut may be the only state in the Northeast with this mechanism, but many Southern state will be on board simultaneously. I look forward to your participation and to your keeping more of your assets. For Children Now....Connecticut is fortunate to have good, very good, and excellent teachers, devoted to their craft and often devoted to their students. I think we can do better still. Our teachers are hampered by "Top Down" command-and-control dictates that prevent them from teaching as well as they might. We can free teachers to improve their work with "Bottom Up" choice, where they and the parents take full control. The teachers and parents will get an assist from administrators, but just a small one. A good administrator largely facilitates, meaning helps the teacher do her job better. I'm the head of a private education firm, yet I take the "lowly" job of facilitating my teachers whenever I can inaugurate a first class. I'm the one wiping down their board, assuring good room temperature, lessening outside noise, assuring students have the right materials, assisting students if they are jumping online. For an after-school activities firm, I'm also a facilitator, a proud one, helping students get the most from their time with an energetic instructor. The front line is the most important. That's how good businesses operate, and our schools should operate more like businesses. As for pre-K learning "First 500" will engender a bevy of a private pre-school activities, at much reduced costs to parents. This includes "home-schooling-with socialization (a lack of socialization is typically the biggest fear among parents considering home schooling). And as for children's lives outside of school walls, I lean towards the "free range" end. This state has not seen a kidnapping by a stranger in 63 years; responsible parents should not have to fear authorities coming down on them for "letting kids be kids". For Families Mark has developed courses of study, for the SAT, ACT, SSAT, and US History. His annotated classic novels are still in use by students wanting to improve their vocabulary while reading difficult literature. Mark created a BreakThrough reading course for middle and high school students, and he co-developed a "Study Skills" course for use by schools with their teenagers. Mark helps assure parents that their students are on a good academic track, and gives suggestions where that track needs improvement. A Governor Mark Stewart Greenstein can help assure much more. He would facilitate after-school enrichment in schools that currently close by 3pm. He would expand school-to-work internships with firms who become potential employers. He would encourage "safe sporting" so more teens are in healthful sports instead of lured into online gaming. As for teens who are lured to worse (gambling, drugs, prostitution), Mark believes in more mentoring. But the big move needs to come from parents who will take their teens away from bad neighborhoods. Stewart's school and tax policies forthrightly encourage moves away from blighted areas to the salubrious communities that abound in Connecticut. For The Devout For Women Mr. Stewart has an overriding appreciation for women's dignity. This applies both morally an in government policy. In policy, he would go after "deadbeat dads" for child support. He would fund, personally, a legal aid clinic and use office space in a portion of the Capitol to help harassed or displaced women. He would help underpaid women, particularly single moms, who have a tremendous burden. And he would aid women who are starting businesses. In the private realm, he can do little with a wayward General Assembly, but should they not protect the privacy and dignity of women in public restrooms against sauntering men, and girls in locker rooms from boys changing and showering with them those "progressive" assemblymen will face the largest public ire from any governor since Calvin Coolidge. In BOTH realms, Mr. Stewart will elevate the status of Moms. Moms who raise our nation's children are our nation's greatest asset. Yet they are not paid for mothering. Indeed, in most business, they are penalized for taking time off to be good mothers. A governor should not attempt to change private business policies by force. But he can be a role model. Mr. Stewart, in his private business, operates an office that is very work-friendly to moms. And his hiring gives a lift in status to those who have taken significant time in the "home work force" (i.e. stay-at-home moms). Mr. Stewart pledges the same as governor. He would allow telecommuting by competent employees to flourish. He would set regular work hours to coincide with school hours so state workers with children can be there for them when dismissed from school. At least 80% of his first Appointees will be women. For Workers Reason with me. People who work are already giving to society. We produce goods and services that others want. We sell them at or below the price others are willing to pay. (Subordinate workers are no different from their employers here - we all sell our skills at or below the price of willing buyers). So when the state saps the income of workers and their employers, it hurts EVERYONE. Remember, there's no such thing as public schools, retirements, welfare, or charitable foundations without good work first. So here are elements I as governor would do to protect good work.
Then there's the indirect action, such as encouraging workplace accommodations for pregnant, elderly, or partly disabled workers, encouraging organizations to enlist young retirees who still want to work part time, and encouraging telecommuting for "stay-home moms" who can still be effective employees and even managers. The state should be limited in its commands, but a good governor can still be a voice for suasion in employee-employer relations. In the name of Connecticut, and in the name of Capitalism, which made Connecticut great, THIS would-be-governor is all in for imploring robust, safe, work. One Governor Candidate's Take on State Unions: Artificial "families" are sentimentally nice. Doing business with them is akin to "buying American": at the margins, I choose to stay "in the family, support America, and support American unionists For Young Adults Here is what I as governor expect to do for young workers in Connecticut. 1) I will extricate you from Obamacare / Medicare. Young healthy adults are financially raped by high premiums that should be shouldered by older people, who incur more medical expenses. Yet when YOU get sick, you face the same high deductibles. Your relatively low income makes you harder pressed to pay your share of the bill. 2) You will be relieved of the full federal tax burden. More than others, young adults can most easily take advantage of "Conscientious Tax Objector" status. You trust Bitcoin more than any generation; you can keep your soft assets there. I will protect your hard assets. 3) Our abolishing state income taxes helps YOU the most. Generally, young adults have the fewest deductions - no dependents, no mortgage payments yet. Older people with the same income almost always pay less in taxes. This evens the playing field for you. 4) Your share of road use fees will lessen. You don't drive as much. You use your time productively on public transport (It's we older people who are stuck talking to wierdos while you get work done on your devices.) In an era where single drivers will be paying for road use, you will only be paying a small share. 5) To the extent I have sway over federal policy, I will champion student loan forgiveness in return for communal work. This is the exception to my credo of individual responsibility. But a) you were lied to by adults who assured you that a degree in Bulgarian poetry was just fine, and b) you took on these loans when you were all of 17. 6) I will employ many of you. You who are good at quantitative calculations, programming, data analysis, and trend assessment will have jobs in CT's Cyber Crime Detection institute. Careers here can rival those on Wall Street (because SAVING investors money is more valuable than earning investors money). And you do good for the world by helping rid us of cyber-thieves. Hang in there. At least ONE candidate is in your corner. Fun & Entertainment Healthcare ACA even affects non-health areas badly: Obamacare mandates that those who work more than 30 hours a week for a single firm be given expensive health care benefits, whether they want them or not. To get back the old 40 – 50 hour week, workers now have to find two jobs, neither of which has benefits. Employers now need to pay two people for the same job. The ACA thus pushes employers to hire only part-time workers. Progressives who thought they were doing workers a favor by mandating health coverage can't understand that health insurance is a net loss to workers if they can't get a full-time job that pays the rest of their bills! The Left thinks they know better than you. See Jonathan Gruber, the evil (i use this term rarely) Leftist manipulator who designed much of Obamacare and other state insurance plans to deliberately fool people. The Left can’t handle that individuals might individually make wise choices. The Left can’t appreciate that the collective wisdom of all these individual choices makes the most robust economy, and fairest economy possible. Connecticut cannot stand more Leftist politics. We need to extricate from the clutches of Obamacare, Medicare, and Medicaid. This is a Gordian knot that the next good governor will cut. So let this be a time to repudiate not only ObamaCare, but ALL Marxist tinkering. Let’s go back to a solution. I never mean to criticize without offering a solution. SO here it is: ZERO government interference in Health Care or health insurance. ZERO. Resist this takeover. Immigration This is the kind of immigrant we should WANT. I will protect them. If it comes down to a federal/state dispute, our forces will align to protect residents of our state. Now, in the name of SOVEREIGNTY, we have the right to turn back illegal newcomers. In the name of CULTURE, the great American culture that some recent newcomers (egged on by Leftists and nihilists) wish to dilute, we have the duty to acculturate newcomers to the American way. That means communities that teach their children Sharia law to replace American law, and those who disdain English immersion for their children should be considered "child abusers" and stopped. For all newcomers, we should take the opportunity to steer them to communities where their presence is an asset and not a likely burden. Some cities are overburdened (not because of population, but because they don't let free markets properly serve a growing population) while many rural areas are losing population. We could condition residence for the first seven years in the USA on staying in an underpopulated area "of need". New immigrants create economic vitality of their own. They are often our best entrepreneurs and our best workers for others who run businesses. Their new communities become marketplaces that existing businesses want to serve. Seven years is a modern route to a PhD or a professional firm's partnership. Seven years also approximates the average time a would-be immigrant is held up in limbo, in a country they'd like to flee. Let's open the gates to good immigrant, with conditions. Even with conditions, virtually everybody in line now would gladly exchange to be quickly brought to the best place in human history, the sovereign U.S.A. International we wage peace. We have the best war-fighting abilities in world history, but when Americans influence by peaceful means, we get a lot further. We "wage peace" by spreading our students into foreign universities, by spreading missionaries of good will to foreign projects, by spreading tourists to foreign bazaars and cafes, by spreading business into foreign firms, and by expanding trade to help foreign merchants (while enriching ourselves with their goods). We spread peace by keeping open our commerce - as George Will points out there has never been a war between two nations that each have McDonald's. And we assure people by keeping our universities and boarding schools open to the leaders of would-be aggressor nations. When the grandchildren of would-be Chinese or Iranian leaders are attending boarding school in Connecticut, these leaders become more akin with America. We have successfully waged peace with our former foes in Germany and Japan for 70 years, and it has been to the benefit of us all. We are beginning to wage peace with the Cuban people, and our interactions there should continue. As we get opportunities to more closely work with Russia, we should. They are potentially our best ally in extirpating terrorists. As to the terrorists who murder and simultaneously menace the world - i'd like to support Nigeria in its attempts to eliminate Boko Haram, and support Israel in its work to resist neighbors who want to see it destroyed and establish an uninterrupted Sharia-ruled crescent. I privately support soldiers who will fight those wars, and believe that if needed, the American military should support them as well. (but with volunteers, never a draft). If Americans refrain from helping the good armies of the world, the world becomes a dark place soon afterwards. Until we become allied with Russia, our best allies against the world's menaces are England, France, and Israel. (Egypt and Jordan are coming along nicely, and solidifying them with Israel is a worthy diplomatic mission). Until thugs are removed from ruling their nations, I believe America should be the home of "governments in exile", composed of escapees who will set up more democratic institutions while they are here and will implement them should they get a chance to return. There is a group already in Los Angeles to help free Iran; I'd like to see Connecticut become home to the future leaders of every oppressed African, Asian, and South American nation. Law When a state enacts a law, it must be prepared to enforce it. Otherwise its laws are "nice gestrures" at best, and a joke at worst. ("Medical marijuana" exemplifies a laughing-stock law - nobody enforces the "law" against redistributing marijuana prescribed "for healing". The "law" turns harmless civilians into "distributors", and doctors into "dealers".) I don't want my state to be a laughing stock. Enforce laws that are proper; repeal all the other laws. The law invades far too many aspects of employee-employer relationships. Among adult employees, we need few, if any, laws. Wages, overtime wages, health benefits, task distribution, retirement benefits, workplace accommodations, vacation pay, insurance coverage, and "sick days" can all be negotiated with a competent adult worker and a willing contractor. So long as there are swift and sure penalties for fraud, and reparations for breach of contract, all parties are better off when the state butts out. Big employers no longer have an advantage over workers. Ask talented nurses - they can work anywhere, for very good pay. Ask talented machinists, whose salaries are at record levels and still there is a shortage. Ask employers of Untalented labor - we pay you WELL for doing average work diligently. The greatest "laws" in the workplace are the Law of Supply and the Law of Demand. (Look them up if you missed economics 101.) In sum, the Free Market is the most finely-tuned mechanism for arriving at fair wages and fair benefits. A state that uses law to invade free relationships distorts fairness. A law that "helps" a pregnant worker gain accommodations from small employers helps women slowly, at best. Recalcitrant employers move faster when the free market is at work and women can more easily move to BETTER employers. A more free market lets a more enlightened, highly accommodating, employer gain a talented women worker. She will leave her stultifying, insensitive firm. Other women, and the men who sympathize with them, will opt to work for the more accommodating employer. And if the internal dynamics are spread, customers will buy from the more "friendly" employer; the less accommodating one suffers. Eventually, all but the most obstinate firms enact good policies for their pregnant workers. This happens more speedily, and with less pain, than relying on legislation. This is "Law and Order" at its finest. Connecticut should try it. Military They HAVE to be. That's because members of a corps who are not in shape or not well-trained let down every fellow trooper around them. If they are not alert, they not only let down their fellow troopers, they could get some of them killed. My reverence extends to FORMER servicemen. Generally, they bring into civilian life their good values, their discipline, their alertness, and their communal spirit. As governor, I want to help the servicemen in my charge (CT has some armed forces, and the Governor is technically " captain general of the militia of the state"). As a civilian for all my life, I do this by listening, and in military matters leading ONLY with 90% concurrence by the military professionals. That said, i have a few semi-civilian initiatives to help current and former servicemen: 1) allow your health benefit to be used at ANY hospital. The red tape that veterans now have for receiving treatment beyond VA hospitals needs to end. As I see it, vets have a voucher, to be used at any clinic or hospital. It gives you more choices and makes all hospitals do better for Vets. 2) allow quicker integration as teachers. Many returning vets have tremendous teaching skills; we should allow them into schools as paras and teachers on an expedited basis. 3) facilitate online learning while in one's last 6 months serving abroad. One of the more dangerous times for vets is returning from service without a satisfying job. As part of "First 500", my plan for better schooling in CT, several schools will be available to servicemen in forward bases. You'll ramp up as fast as any civilian. 4) staff our "CCD". That's the Cyber Crime Detection institute we will establish in 2019. We need people with knowledge and knowhow to ferret out domestic and international cyber criminals. Many of you are well-suited to run this defensive unit, and some of you will make good trainers to help expand this institute. I heartily thank you for your service, past and present. Municipalities Assembly members await a slow-moving federal bureaucracy. But even with a "green light" from DC, there is no plan in place for permitting businesses in the towns that would like to have casino gaming (and shows, and restaurants, and accompanying hotels) of their own. Assembly members fawn at ex-athletes making pitches, but for years have had disdain for common folks and uncommon businesses making reasoned proposals. The solution: state government should butt out. Let municipalities that want new businesses of any form allow them. Let them court proposals for one or even multiple casinos. If nine new casinos sprout throughout CT, so be it. That draws outsiders to the state, keeps them in CT longer, and provides nearby entertainment for those of us who want it -- no need to travel to Springfield. Abandon the tribal compact if need be - (treat Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun like any other business, albeit they had a tremendous state-helped running start). Revenue is the least important element of this proposal. It's a nice bonus. Most important is FREEDOM. Municipalities should be free to flourish as they wish. Some will eschew all forms of gambling. Fine. They might become "meccas" for residents who want to keep that influence out. Others who want more vibrancy and more jobs will vote to include gaming. That is a better form of democracy than state-imposed and federally guided rules. As for the General Assembly - let the municipalities run with this. Personal The limitation is a principled one: personal and political deserve a separation. Office-holders and candidates for public office do not deserve omni-probing. It reduces dignity, and keeps good people from running. Thus, I will NOT share everything. My Facebook Page is deliberately curtailed. (That's in part because except for snowboarding and ice hockey, my private life is not that exciting.) It's also because almost anyone in this state can meet me in person - outside concerts, at fairs, playing softball, ice skating, or just plain on an old-fashioned conference call - we do these every week!. You don't need news reports or tabloids to collect a sense of Mark Stewart Greenstein - join me directly! As Governor, I will grant the same access. Two days a week, likely Sundays and Wednesdays, I'm the people's governor; four days a week, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays, I become an administrator and a wonk. Saturdays are truly personal, and I would resent intrusions. Sure, multiple allegations of public malfeasance demand scrutiny of officials. For the non-public, I actually believe in "peer ratings" for goodness (and would apply peer ratings in my selection of appointees). Even non-public peer-ing should have a cordon - let people have dignified space, such as my Four Bs: Barrooms, Bathrooms, Bedrooms, and Boardrooms, where all speech and all activity is sacrosanct. Let officials and candidates choose to have other sacrosanct areas or times, when they wish to not be on record, not be photographed, and not be reported upon. For some candidates that would be their time in church. For others it might be their time at work. For others it's their time with their children. For all, it should be their time with their spouse, unless they choose to make their spouse a public figure. For me, it's my time snowboarding - I better not see a reporter asking for me on the slopes of Stowe. Stay away, or you and your paper will never get an exclusive. Public/private separation dignifies our work in BOTH areas. An imperfect household, a poorly-functioning private business, or a hypocritical parishioner says nothing relevant about a person's public leadership abilities. Lincoln fell short on all three private realms above, but is lauded as one of our great Presidents. We're indebted to Founder Thomas Jefferson, even though he was at times a private personal wreck. Conversely, what an official or a candidate may say on the campaign trail should not impugn his fitness at work or in the home. I will surely say some things that are politically at odds with some of my clients. But clients can know that still have the educator who will held their kids ascend. I will surely say some things that my teammates disagree with politically. But can know they still have the same Mark Stewart Greenstein (on the field it's "Greenie") behind the plate or defending the goal. Philosophy of State Governance The freedom of families to educate their children as they wish PROBABLY leads to high prosperity. Since this is a less-solid claim, a state should give OPTIONS for people to educate their children under rigid state-run systems or under private auspices. By CT law education is required to be public. Safety, the other mission of a state, has a sliding scale with freedom. We are all less likely to be killed if we make the speed limit 15 miles per hour; our children are less likely to be hurt is there is no electricity allowed to run into our households. I err on the side of freedom to drive 60 mph and have electric ovens because individuals can make decisions that keep themselves safe AND others safe better than blunt regulations can. I err on the side of private prudence because the power of government compulsion is so strong. Law, remember, is force; it is ultimately the use of authorities with guns to compel citizens. Finally, private prudence deserves the upper hand because the costs of enforcing government control, and the intrusiveness, are too high. If you choose to drive 25 in a 15 mph zone, we need more surveillance and more patrolmen to enforce this; if you choose to get solar power into your home to defeat some prohibition on electric ovens, some detective needs to monitor your home too. There are two requirements in the Connecticut Constitution, both recent additions, that cost substantial money: free elementary and secondary education, and a state university system. A governor is bound to respect these expenditures. Besides these, the mantra is DON'T SPEND. The rare exceptions should be on necessary functions that privately cannot be done better. I put some environmental protection, and some transportation projects in this category. The General Assembly might determine others, but this governor will always weigh in, with veto power, for every common welfare expense to be done privately. In the process: Don't tax, don't borrow, don't restrict. If a governor is speeding other people's money, it is to be done fairly and FRUGALLY. Let Connecticut be a model for state frugality, but with it burgeoning private wealth. How private distributes wealth is not the state's business (though it very likely will be distributed to needy people BETTER than the state can ever do. And that wealth will certainly be greater than with the impositions by the state government that we have become accustomed. It is time to roll back these impositions, and see the private wealth, private charity, and private activities flourish. Politics 101 Connecticut needs strong, principled people in its General Assembly and the Governor's chair. That should be from ANY political party. Connecticut will do well with strong third party and independent officials. The two-party "duopoly" has meant too much insider control, and too many bi-partisan sellouts. Result: Republican officials and Democrat officials get along by selling out the People. They compromise; they "kick cans down an endless road". Their failure to fund our past obligations, and their layer-upon-layer of bonding (laying expenses on future generations), is coming home to roost. Connecticut is the only New England state to see negative economic growth over the past 20 years. The GOOD thing is that government is the EASIEST thing to change. We are not afflicted with poorly educated people; we still have our natural resources; we still have our property intact. Thus the optimism: Mr. Stewart is a candidate who knows that a resurgence of GOOD government can bring CT out of its fiscal woes. And a resurgence can be had in 2018. Though still a Democrat, Mr. Stewart is part of the "ACL" Party: AMiGo Constitution Liberty. He's a businessman, but otherwise a political outsider. In 2018, ONLY an outsider can be a forceful, effective "navigator" for steering CT back to a fiscally robust state. Here is where confidence is warranted: IF an outsider is elected governor, it would show the rest of the General Assembly his great popular support. That helps us to quick legislation. That helps steamroll the remaining General Assembly members stuck in old ways. If they don't get on board with reasoned popular sentiment, they will be voted out in the next election. THAT is democracy at its best. Race Relations Whether that's Chinese steel, electronics, plastics, or porcelain, when my government makes me pay more for it, or totally keeps it from coming to our shores, my government is harming me. That my government is doing so because of a few elite industrialists who want to protect a privileged place is a BAD use of government. Except for those elites, everyone else is harmed by trade deprivation. The harm is especially acute if it ratchets to a trade WAR - where the other nation retaliates by slapping tariffs or quotas on good that we make. Then our own workers are harmed, for doing nothing wrong. Trade wars have scant few winners. The Business communities recognize the harm in trade restrictions. The last two times Mr. Trump publicly threatened to increase the trade restrictions with China, the Dow sank over 400 points. They know that trade restrictions are net losers. Here's the non-business component of free trade: it makes better allies. Other nations using our stuff, and our using theirs, means we are less strange, more friendly, and more valuable to one another. No war has ever been fought between two nations that both had a McDonalds. Please DISMISS the "trade deficit" argument. That one nation is more enriched by having a trade surplus with another is a stupid argument. I run a trade deficit with my supermarket. Every month, damn-it, i spend money at Stop-and-Shop, and they spend no money on me! None of them send students to my SAT prep courses. My trade deficits with my tailor, my lawn care guy, and my mechanic each year are colossally imbalanced. I guess i better forego their services, and make them angry, to wipe out my trade deficit. Errrrrr! Or maybe i should ask the government to tax their services to me, so i'll pay more, be resentful, and let the government keep the money. Errrrr! Better is to recognize that in my trade deficit, i get STUFF, which i'm happy to pay for. Stop and Shop, and the tailor, lawn guy, and mechanic give me services for which i get great value. We can apply this nationally - we get LOTS of stuff from China. We can't produce it nearly as cheaply ourselves. We American consumers thus have more to spend when we buy lower-priced stuff. We enhance our standard of living by trading with low-cost producers. America's high "trade deficit" should thus be heralded as a sign of our wealth. We have the abundant ability to pay for others' stuff. With open trade, the many dollars we send to other nations come back in other nations using those dollars to to buy our stuff. (And in case they didn't use those dollars, what a GREAT deal for us! - we ship useless green pieces of paper and in return get computers and cars and clothing and I-phones. ) Protectionism should be shunned. When we drop our trade barriers, it might be a spur for other world leaders to drop theirs too. That gives American producers more opportunities to sell to the world, and gives Americana more opportunities to influence the world for good. Connecticut's governor can do nothing about national tariffs or quotas. But he can inspire more trade between world producers and Connecticut producers. Though not yet governor, i already have - starting Connecticut Commerce to bring divisions of foreign firms to Connecticut. Whether elected or not, i will continue to do so, and i encourage residents who speak other languages and have "salesmanship" to contact me about landing foreign firms. We can be seen and reached through www.ConnComm.net. State & Federal |
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2023
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- We in Hartford are BEYOND racial divisions; don't let allegations of "racism" distract us from solving real problems of crime, job losses, and declining education..
- Enforcement matters. Let Police do their work. We can rid Hartford of thugs and return it to a flourishing, safe city.
- Allow parents choice in schools! Let parents have the $20,000 per child we currently spend, and use the money to pay for schooling of THEIR CHOICE. Some will choose their current neighborhood school, others will opt for a school outside the district. Still other parents will build schools themselves, with my help. They will control the curriculum, the teaching, and the social rules. Breakthrough Magnet schools started this way and two decades later, they and their children are flourishing. All Hartford schoolchildren should have similar opportunities.
I would like a rebuilt Civic Center -- both the arena and the mall that once surrounded it.
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So the only struggle I face is working all aspect of my smart-phone.
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2020
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2018
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What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
1. End state welfare (welfare is BEST done by orgs and private individuals). 2. End the Income tax (in three years). 3. End the public school "monopoly" (give families choice in schools, which make BETTER schools).
What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?
I'm an educator. The firm I founded has helped propel nearly 10,000 students to four-year colleges. I've personally taught nearly 4000 of these teenagers, and consulted with the majority of their parents about school success. I was also born in Hartford. Hartford used to be a gem. Much of it is now sclerotic. And its school system bears the harm of BAD government, both legislative and judicial. Legislators in their "feel-good" moments decided to spend money for some very good schools that not everyone could attend, so they did a race-based demarcation: for every Asian or Caucasian attending the good schools, the city could allow three African-American or Latino children to attend. So when the better schools attract only 100 Asian/White kids, only 300 Hartford kids can attend. But there are twice as many Hartford kids who WANT to attend! Seats go empty at the best schools, and these well-meaning African American and Latino families are consigned to bad schools (VERY bad if you read some Courant reports). The Judiciary feels constrained. They should be declaring the legislation void; it's race-based in ways WORSE than Topeka during Brown v Board of Ed (then and there Negroes were rightfully angry about the inequality, but content with the segregation; here, the government is creating inequality and FORCING segregation!). The solution: a good Governor can cut the gordian knot. I will stand in the doorway of any school that by late January is not admitting Black children who want to attend. This is the "reverse Orval Faubus" (The Arkansas governor who would not let Black children in). I will see to it that any school board member who impedes this is called out, and that any principal who stands in the way is fired. Now, the best policy STATE-WIDE is that of choice. By September, Connecticut children will have Education Accounts that allow their families to spend up to $15,000 per child on the school of their choice. (Possibly this slides from $10,000 to $20,000, but averages $15,000). The per child cost of public school in CT is approximately $18,000 including transportation. It means a Hartford child can leave the district and come to a West Hartford, Avon, Simsbury, Bloomfield, or Glastonbury public school. Or the parents have $15,000 toward tuition at a private school. If their current school costs less than $15,000, they can save the difference for later years when a more expensive high school may be best. Best of all, the EA $15,000 can be spent on a good school IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, possibly one yet to form. Especially for the Hartford family, the financial incentive (schools that make themselves better get more money) is what will improve Hartford schools. This should look familiar - it's called the Free Market. It's what gets us better-and-better computers and lower and lower prices; it's what yields better services, with faster response times; it's what improves our grocery stores, clothing stores, restaurants, and even toy stores. The Free market in education will make schools BETTER. Q. Can it really apply in education? A. It already does. Our private universities are not run by the government; they have complete choice in whom they select, choice in whom they expel, choice in hiring, and (except constrained by tenure), choice in firing. They choose their own curricula, and they have no quotas on who can come from what district. The result: students, armed with at most a "voucher" (a guaranteed student loan) seek them out. They pay for good education! Private colleges have some added advantage over public ? the top 20 national universities (UC Berkeley is #21) are all private. The top 85 liberal arts colleges are all private (state-supported VMI is ranked #86). But even with public universities, they largely operate according to CHOICE-In-Education. In short, our universities are the education institutes people flock to, nationally and internationally. By contrast, few people, even from one town away, seek to attend "Public School 101" We should apply Free Market principles to education wherever possible. That includes schools choosing their own curricula, choosing their own teachers without constricting state rules, and having the ability to kick out incorrigibly disruptive students. (Yes, the place for them is old-fashioned truant school until they shape up). We will not impede the educations of kids who WANT to learn. ? My other areas of high interest are: boosting tourism, enhancing secondary technical education busting cyber-criminals improving transportation (including adding six lanes through Fairfield Co) reducing pollutants incubating new technology eliminating employment impediments reducing criminal recidivism legalizing victim-less activities (weed, sports-wagering, escort services) bringing an NHL team to Connecticut aiding pre-K education allowing state workers to form their own businesses getting so good at government we do other states' work for them! building more subs (and returning CT to a surface-ship builder) showing NY businesses that CT is a better place for them to operate showing distant businesses (including international firms) that CT is a great place to put a division and keeping more families here, a direct result of all the above.
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?
I look up to various people for specifics. There is no one-size-fits all needs (though until I was in my 30s, MOM was close). Selecting one's mentors emulates how i would govern, where one size does not fit all. So allow me to be selective here: In Business: Alan Lazowski, who has built a parking "empire" while treating everyone well; Dave Calibey, a thoughtful West Hartford marketer; Joan Shotkin, my first employee, who has always been well-grounded; Paul Schulze, my firm's CFO who is thoughtful, resolute, solid, and sometime funny; John Demitrus, a Hartford retailer and marketing entrepreneur who I selected to become my Lieutenant Governor. Terri Fischer, my firm's CEO, who runs things well and who has become (by my choosing) my boss. In personal affairs: Eureka Richardson, one of my bankers, who helps me dress well and understands people at both low and high levels, Yitzchok Adler, the Rabbi I have known since 2016. Grounded, straightforward, wise, and fairly cool (very cool for a rabbi). In Civics: The list is huge, and will be released on www.epic-party.us and www.stewartforliberty.com, but my Top 30 includes: Walter Williams Venus Williams Eboni Williams George Will Andrew Wilkow Taylor Swift Ben Shapiro John Stossel Mark Steyn Tom Sowell "Judge" Judge Judy Scheindlin Deion Sanders Dennis Prager "Judge" Jeanine Pirro Alan Page Candace Owens Judge Andrew Napolitano Lisa "Kennedy" Montgomery Michelle Malkin Dana Loesch Rush Limbaugh Toby Keith Laura Ingraham Rickey Henderson Kmele Foster Dwight Freeney Brett Favre John Elway Larry Elder Ben Chavis (in N.C.) Deneen Borelli Andre Agassi In Politics: Ben Sasse (Best U.S. Senator) JR Romano (freaking talented; he'll govern some day) Justin Amash (Very good U.S. House member) Larry Sharpe (Libertarian whohu SHOULD be governing New York) Michele Bachmann (Best retired U.S. House Member) Ned Lamont (thouth my opponent, a NICE guy, passionate and thoughtful. Ned is the ONLY Democrat leader north of Virginia worth emulating) Nick Sarwark (LP National Leader, keen raconteur, master parliamentarian who keeps meeting moving) Phil Gramm (Best retired Senator, brilliant)
Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?
Yes: Harry Browne's Why Government Doesn't Work Henry Hazlett's Economics in One Lesson Dennis Prager's Nine Questions People ask about Judaism George Will's Men At Work : the Craft of Baseball and ANYthing by Walter Williams. - he will not disappoint. Film: Casablanca (1942) Philosophy of when you are right, to push it even if you are outnumbered. And the production is amazing - MANY themes, Many memorable characters, two memorable songs. Deep, yet fast-moving. Run time = 92 minutes!
What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?
Excluding the president (because it's a uniquely powerful position, and because THIS president defies most molds) U.S. Senator / U.S. House - needs wisdom State senator / State House - needs to read bills, and shuck patronage Governor - cut through bull-shit and get things done Town selectman / Mayor - inquisitiveness, common-sense, ability to detect lies, willingness to change, boldness when needed. Yes, municipal government, if citizens want to be different, is more important than other levels. Since few people scrutinize municipal government, especially among the press, Municipal Government requires better personal qualities of its selectmen. ?
What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?
Common sense, creativity, ability to say "no", propensity to ask "why", and willingness to act on "why not?" ?
What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?
Normally, a governor's responsibilities are very few. A minimalist state should mostly run itself, and a big-government state should have departments that run WELL. But for the last 30 years, we've had neither. Connecticut government reaches into too many places and does NOT run well. Indeed, its legislators bankrupt future generations and since 1991 its governors have applied no brake (ironically "governor" technically means "controller", yet under Governors Rell, Rowland, and Weicker our finances have been out of control; Gov. Malloy has done a decent job right-sizing). So now, let's talk about the extra-ordinary time of 2019: The next Governor needs to gut the bureaucratic mess that keeps good legislation from being approved. He needs to demand that legislators scrutinize BAD laws, and remove them, before they pass new ones. He needs to reform the courts, so litigation can be open to all with legitimate complaints. He needs to approve ONLY spending that each year, except for a long-lasting emergency, reduces the the debt. He needs to never sign a bill with a pension. He needs to never READ a bill longer than two pages (lengthy proposals protect special interests). He needs to assure that money designated for a given fund is not raided for other uses. He needs to call out the raiders, and those who would spend unwisely, as demons who need to be primaried before they run for another November election. He needs to protect past agreements, including SEBAC, even if they were bad ones. But he needs to make bad agreements, like SEBAC, irrelevant. He needs to improve our highways. But he needs to spend LESS money in the process. He needs to restore the Death Penalty, as a way to assure that Connecticut upholds the sanctity of innocent life, and that murderers and sex-traffickers are subject to the death penalty. He needs to improve schools, which is easy if the General Assembly approves a choice model. He needs to promote tourism, incubators, and better schools, as conduits to outside companies moving here. He needs to end the Income tax, quickly, before we lose more families to low-tax states.
What legacy would you like to leave?
I would like to be the governor whose success starts a WAVE of good governance across the country. "Good governance" means Connecticut doing the "Necessary" functions well, while leaving the "nice" functions to those who do them better: private organizations, municipalities, and individuals. Needy people who receive these services will be getting BETTER services. That's because we who have directly paid make sure they are better, or we withhold our funding the next year. Compared to legislators, We individuals have a BETTER ability to assess whether a homeless shelter is doing good work, or an Opioid addiction clinic is effective. We have no political interest that gets in the way of our direct funding. We just may fund pre-K education, which legislators won't. And our funding doesn't get cut off when there's a budget impasse, as happened twice this decade. One people recognize that this DIRECT way of funding welfare was needlessly usurped by the state, and that we can go back to welfare funded by individuals, or our private agents (organized charities), I can retire. I'll be gleefully satisfied to have slashed spending to the Necessary (about $9B a year, including education, about $2.5B a year without) and seen the "nice" welfare flourish as it did back in the 1920s. I literally will pass the baton to a good Lieutenant Governor after three years if this and my other big legislative goals are realized. I would also like to be the man who breaks up the Republican / Democrat hegemony. The two-party duopoly dis-serves almost everybody. No voter can with integrity adhere to all of a party's principles and issue-by-issue stances. With six parties, the principles are more likely to "fit" the voter. So we all have less intellectual compromise. Our parties make temporary legislative alliances to see legislation pass or fail. Last seen here in the 1820s, that's the way our Constitution's framers envisioned, and it's the way "parliamentary" systems work in Israel and Europe. I have already started the Amigo Constitution Liberty party. We will field many candidates in 2020 for state house seats and possibly for congress. This is good for would-be candidates who are now "Constipated" by Big Party elders who say "wait your turn. It's also good for candidates (and voters) who don;t want to adhere to party orthodoxy, but don't want to jump to the "enemy" either. Our party will not be extinguishing Democrats or Republicans. Indeed, for a very good Republican, we can cross-endorse, giving her "padding" for the election. Ditto for a very good Democrat. But best of all, a strong third party makes the big parties narrower, but BETTER.
What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?
Nixon's inauguration in January 1969. I was not quite 5. Better memory of the Apollo 11 moon landings in July 1969, six months later.
What was your very first job? How long did you have it?
My first job was a summer job at Bonanza restaurant, at the corner of Albany Ave and North Main Street in West Hartford. I was a busboy and dishwasher and it was not fun. The dishes were heavy, and when left for me they were often grimy. When I had to take them out of the hot dishwasher, they often scalded my fingers. The year-round Crew didn't especially like the summer kids. My one friend there was Leroy, a large African-American guy from Hartford who did the dishwashing with me. He was always easy-going but worked hard, so together we only once got behind. I found out what aided his disposition: alcohol. But it was always under control when I was there. One day Leroy expressed sadness to me: "I can't drink no more", he said. "It costs me too much money to get drunk". I was a non-drinker, too afraid to sympathize. A week later Leroy had found a hobby and was happy again. In short, the job sucked. But it taught me how to work with others, how to be nice even when customers treated you not-so-well, and how to be responsible TO others. I actually took restaurant jobs for the next five summers, and today remain grateful that I started where I did.
What happened on your most awkward date?
Ha! That would be with the lovely, svelte "Gemma", a classmate at college. We went to the local theatre. Small talk was okay. I wanted to be the gentleman who bought her food so i came back with popcorn for her. "I'm a vegan", she said "please take it away". There was no second date.
What is your favorite holiday? Why?
I like Fourth of July for the fireworks, the reverence for our heritage, and the usually good golf that can be had while all the married guys have to be with their families. And Passover is good, again for the reverence for my heritage and somewhat to AMERICA's heritage. Passover celebrates freedom. I happen to be one of the few Jews who actually LIKEs matzoh.
What is your favorite book? Why?
Though almost anything by John Grisham is up there, 1984 by George Orwell is my favorite fiction book. Proper warning about socialism in a riveting drama.
If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?
I'd like to be Frank Furillo, the Captain of the Hill Street Precinct portrayed by Daniel Travanti in NBC's "Hill Street Blues". He's an alcoholic, who has to fight his addiction daily. yet he's passionate about justice, angry about injustice and calm when needed. Oh yeah, and he's politically skillful, which I am not (yet).
What is your favorite thing in your home or apartment? Why?
I'm a pragmatist. You can't get by without refrigeration. After "wheel", "Internet", and "plumbing", it's the best human invention.
What was the last song that got stuck in your head?
Well, thanks to your question about Favorite Fiction (above), it's The Marselleise, the French National Anthem, played in a great scene of Casablanca when the Free French and American Humphrey Bogart drown out the Nazi singers.
What is something that has been a struggle in your life?
I am a child of privilege ? born to an intact two-parent family that had high expectations of me. I'm blessed to say I've had no long-term struggles. My sister fought bipolar disorder, but at the time she was far way, in Indiana and then in Kansas. So mostly from afar, that would be the toughest.
If the governor's office in your state does not have the line-item veto power, do you believe it should? Why or why not?
No need. I'll just veto the whole bad bill and say "get me a good one".
What do you believe is the ideal relationship between the governor and state legislature?
Right now, it's to steamroll them. They have cause untold problems with their "go-along" habits. We need a legislature that budgets like a single parent does. Indeed, I want to get more single moms elected.
What do you perceive to be your state's greatest challenges over the next decade?
If I'm elected, our challenges GREATLY diminish. That's because CT's only major problems stem form Government, but government is the EASIEST thing to fix. It just takes WILL. I have the will, and if elected, it shows people share that will, and will back me up as we change the way CT does business. I relish the next four years!
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Campaign website
The following campaign themes were found on Stewart Greenstein's official campaign website.
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Athletics
Who should be training for college (or even professional) sports. How parents should and should not be involved in their child's sport. The fairness of recruiting athletes above scholars. State support for UConn Athletics. Tom Brady. Good athletics as training for good academics. Good athletics as a model for good civics. Athletics involves very serious issues for individuals and society, but I'll occasionally add my take on:
My favorite athletes and If I were the Commissioner and Why I like Certain NFL and MLB Teams, and How Candidate Mark Stewart proposes to return the Whalers to CT. Budget
I, Mark Stewart, am the candidate with the most severe spending reduction proposals. The more our deficits grow, the more my candidacy strengthens. The more our legislators and bureaucrats fail to be straightforward, the more voters are emboldened to throw them out, whatever their pedigree.
I am also the only candidate who expects to give voters their tax money back. With a good General Assembly in place, Connecticut will abolish the income tax. And with good negotiation with the Federal Treasury Department (yes, this is one Democrat who believes working WITH Trump-Pence is good for Connecticut) we will let CT residents pay only a small portion of their federal income tax.
A governor can also exercise good budgeting of his own office. I am pledged to trimming my budget by 20% per year. I also believe the governor's office, like some other state offices, can EARN MONEY for the state. As a tiny example, I will rent out some Governor's mansion bedrooms to tourists (a contingency page is already up on AirBnB) and let the state keep the revenue.
With two exceptions, a state legislature should be budgeting like a family. Our General Assembly has allowed horrible budgeting for the past 35 years. It has foisted liability on younger generations, which is immoral. This will not happen on my watch.
With this governor's resolve, I expect businesses will be attracted to Connecticut. That ITSELF will help our budgeting. But I do not incorporate this speculation into rosy-scenario budgeting. Civics
Government can't practice virtue as well as individuals. Government can't teach virtue as well as pastors, parents, rabbis, and private counselors. That's because the most well-meaning, selfless people within government service are inevitably part of a political process that dilutes their ideals. Whatever an individual wants or needs, the bureaucrats want and need it less. The bureaucrat typically has to compromise to get some instead of none.
Individuals do not have to compromise. Single families and private groups get more done, better, than legislatures and bureaucrats. We need to frame debates on how to return more power to the individuals and private groups, and remove power from those who cannot completely enact our best interests.
The beauty is that free markets and minimal regulations have proven themselves to bring us more goods, more services, better health, and higher prosperity than governments ever will. This part of Mark's Civic efforts is an as EDUCATOR. He routinely speaks with student groups to elaborate in areas of economics, civics and ethics in ways their school-teachers often can't.
Mark's campaign thus has National implication in the realm of civics. People in other states need to pay attention to what the Stewart for Liberty campaign is expounding. Crime
Connecticut is fortunate to be in the lower third of violent crime reports (15th of 50). But the government should be working to lower it still. Even Vermont, Maine, Virginia, and Wyoming (#s 1, 2, 3, an 4) should not be smug if there are preventable violent crimes within their borders. Protecting public safety is a basic function of government, the most important function according to classical liberalism.
For every reported criminal activity, there is a multiple above that that go unreported. For every reported criminal act, there are some criminal attempts that are thwarted. We should be working to deter all attempts.
Deterrence without becoming a police state is a delicate balance. I err on the side of deterrence. My balancing is to use good citizens more often to help the police. "If you see something, say something" is wise. Police can use the extra eyes an ears that good citizenry provide.
Deterrence includes protecting against cyber-crime. I'm the candidate who would spend MORE money on active-duty State Police, including a cyber-crime institute. We will detect impersonators, root out fraudsters, and recoup stolen sums, even if it means going across state lines to "out-of-state" banks.
The videos here will eventually build to important discussions on confinement, deterrence, rehabilitation, and restitution. Education
The Good: it prioritizes in one of the most important areas of life.
The Bad: it can lead to complacency in education - that if the state government is funding and administering education we can rely on it to be good education.
The way to have the Good without the Bad is to make private education the model. The State-run schools become both leaders and back-stops; they follow some of the better private school practices, and they lead where the expertise of state employees can show all a better way.
State funding and state ideas can elevate education to leadership in many areas. Because the state may be behind certain research funding, we can attract more dollars from out-of-state. Because the state can provide education-to-work opportunities, we can attract more families to settle here for their K-12 students, and more university students to enroll here.
My method for attracting more families is "First 500". This school-choice, "bottom-up" support for schools, via vouchers, makes it REALLY appealing for families:
no top-down command and control; no common core - it's our choice; minimal bureaucracy; maximized learning.
Not only will more families happily make their homes here, first 500 will attract very good teachers too. Market forces give us the best computers, clothing, phones, and foods. With the market back in education, we'll have the best for our students. Environment
The state can also be a forceful "driver" of environmental improvements nationwide. Connecticut can commit to buying a good new product in bulk -- spurring better research and lower prices. This is improved fourfold if we are cooperating regionally with other New England states, and twelvefold if cooperating with New York and New Jersey. We share the same North Atlantic Ocean, and adjacent airspace, so regional cooperation makes great sense.
Good environmental science deserves to be strengthened. My office will try hard to budget for better testing and better remediation. We will help fund firms that show promising clean technologies. We can help draw talented young scientists and engineers to the state to work on air and water quality. We must stay wary though. Many good organizations that are concerned about the environment get hijacked by bad science and bad politics. The environmental movement at the national level has been overrun by Marxists. These people use "the environment" as a sledgehammer against small business and small property owners. They even put a harness on food production, and their national policies make food prices unnecessarily high, especially hurting poor people. These Marxists delay construction needlessly; they derail good projects.
Our good instincts to live healthier lives cannot be subverted by those whose overarching goal is bring down established institutions. Out General Assembly and our evaluators within DEEP need to stick with good science, and to be grounded in helping humanity. Fair Taxation
A Governor Mark Stewart has one overarching tax policy: we recoup what we spend almost immediately. Short of a WWII-like emergency, if state spending rises by 1.5% in 2019, we MUST collect the difference in 2020. We do not run budget deficits. That causes planning to go awry and increases borrowing costs.
The remaining forms of taxation are all negotiable. My preference is for user fees instead of income taxes. Thus I would:
abolish the state income tax reduce the corporate income tax reduce the sales tax reduce "sin" taxes, and reduce the travel and tourism tax.
Now, these reductions can only come with massive reductions in spending. Elsewhere I discuss what's needed, including replacing state individual welfare with private welfare and never paying a dime for new pensions.
Should this combination fall short, then I believe in user fees for roads, and gradually working in user fees for non-school activities taking place at school sites. I also have the expectation that the CT Lottery can add nearly $500M annually to the General Fund from out-of-state sales. Remember, we will see an abundance of revenue from sales taxation on online purchases, whether or not North Dakota v. Quill is overturned. For Businesses
This nation, and this state, should never lose sight of need for robust business. At the government level, that generally means getting out of the way. State government has to protect safety; beyond that, it should restrict with extreme deference to freedom. That means bargaining contracts, health care policies, hiring policies, retirement policies, and discrimination policies should be left to employees and employers in a beautiful cauldron called "The Free Market".
Yes, even employment discrimination. There are very few "crackers" left in Connecticut. If they are still so stupid as to not want to employ racial minorities, fine. Let them them lose their talents; and let them lose angry customers, minority and majority, to more enlightened competitors. Let the few misogynist employers who might still be left in CT also suffer the consequences of their stupidity.
Connecticut has been hurt by overzealous regulation. Connecticut's entrepreneurial class has been stifled by needless forms, unnecessary intrusions, restrictive regulations, and fear of law suits. Our legislators at times regulate the small to protect the powerful. That explains requiring 500 hours of hair styling school before a young woman can open a braiding business; it explains high barriers for a business to self-insure, and it explains why no small homeowner or farmer can become a solar energy generator (and thereby earn money on her property and reduce neighbors' utility bills.).
The state can be a good collaborator with business. In transportation and environmental hazard remediation the state has to. In education, it should. My largest expansion of state services to business is "First 500", so contractors can be building, shaping, and administering to schools. In incubating talent, the state would be wise to help our businesses more. We have loads of talented youngsters who will do innovative work for a variety of companies; we need to assure that regulations don't stymie their hiring or their continued training. For Children
Now....Connecticut is fortunate to have good, very good, and excellent teachers, devoted to their craft and often devoted to their students. I think we can do better still.
Our teachers are hampered by "Top Down" command-and-control dictates that prevent them from teaching as well as they might. We can free teachers to improve their work with "Bottom Up" choice, where they and the parents take full control. The teachers and parents will get an assist from administrators, but just a small one. A good administrator largely facilitates, meaning helps the teacher do her job better.
I'm the head of a private education firm, yet I take the "lowly" job of facilitating my teachers whenever I can inaugurate a first class. I'm the one wiping down their board, assuring good room temperature, lessening outside noise, assuring students have the right materials, assisting students if they are jumping online. For an after-school activities firm, I'm also a facilitator, a proud one, helping students get the most from their time with an energetic instructor.
The front line is the most important. That's how good businesses operate, and our schools should operate more like businesses.
As for pre-K learning "First 500" will engender a bevy of a private pre-school activities, at much reduced costs to parents. This includes "home-schooling-with socialization (a lack of socialization is typically the biggest fear among parents considering home schooling).
And as for children's lives outside of school walls, I lean towards the "free range" end. This state has not seen a kidnapping by a stranger in 63 years; responsible parents should not have to fear authorities coming down on them for "letting kids be kids". For Teens
Mark has developed courses of study, for the SAT, ACT, SSAT, and US History. His annotated classic novels are still in use by students wanting to improve their vocabulary while reading difficult literature. Mark created a BreakThrough reading course for middle and high school students, and he co-developed a "Study Skills" course for use by schools with their teenagers.
Mark helps assure parents that their students are on a good academic track, and gives suggestions where that track needs improvement.
A Governor Mark Stewart Greenstein can help assure much more. He would facilitate after-school enrichment in schools that currently close by 3pm. He would expand school-to-work internships with firms who become potential employers. He would encourage "safe sporting" so more teens are in healthful sports instead of lured into online gaming.
As for teens who are lured to worse (gambling, drugs, prostitution), Mark believes in more mentoring. But the big move needs to come from parents who will take their teens away from bad neighborhoods. Stewart's school and tax policies forthrightly encourage moves away from blighted areas to the salubrious communities that abound in Connecticut. For Women
Mr. Stewart has an overriding appreciation for women's dignity. This applies both morally an in government policy.
In policy, he would go after "deadbeat dads" for child support. He would fund, personally, a legal aid clinic and use office space in a portion of the Capitol to help harassed or displaced women.
He would help underpaid women, particularly single moms, who have a tremendous burden. And he would aid women who are starting businesses.
In the private realm, he can do little with a wayward General Assembly, but should they not protect the privacy and dignity of women in public restrooms against sauntering men, and girls in locker rooms from boys changing and showering with them those "progressive" assemblymen will face the largest public ire from any governor since Calvin Coolidge.
In BOTH realms, Mr. Stewart will elevate the status of Moms. Moms who raise our nation's children are our nation's greatest asset. Yet they are not paid for mothering. Indeed, in most business, they are penalized for taking time off to be good mothers.
A governor should not attempt to change private business policies by force. But he can be a role model. Mr. Stewart, in his private business, operates an office that is very work-friendly to moms. And his hiring gives a lift in status to those who have taken significant time in the "home work force" (i.e. stay-at-home moms). Mr. Stewart pledges the same as governor. He would allow telecommuting by competent employees to flourish. He would set regular work hours to coincide with school hours so state workers with children can be there for them when dismissed from school. At least 80% of his first Appointees will be women.[8] |
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Footnotes
- ↑ The CT Mirror, "Mark Stewart Greenstein qualifies for ballot," September 6, 2018
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 28, 2023
- ↑ USA Today, "Harris makes history as first Black woman, Asian American presidential nominee," August 2, 2024
- ↑ ABC News, "DNC to nominate Biden and Harris to bypass Ohio ballot issues," May 28, 2024
- ↑ The New York Times, "Democrats Set Aug. 1 for Harris Nomination Vote," July 24, 2024
- ↑ CBS News, "Kamala Harris closer to being nominee as DNC approves early virtual roll call vote," July 24, 2024
- ↑ DNC, "DNC and DNCC Chairs Announce Results of Presidential Nominating Petition Process and Opening of Virtual Roll Call on August 1," July 30, 2024
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Mark Stewart Greenstein’s campaign website, “On the Issues,” accessed October 16, 2024
- ↑ Stewart for Liberty, "On the Issues," accessed March 19, 2018
