My name is Marcus Palumbo and I am running for state representative in the 47th District, which includes Canterbury, Chaplin, Scotland, Sprague, and portions of Brooklyn, Norwich, Lisbon, and Plainfield.
Our economy is rigged. It’s rigged against middle and working-class families. The current economic system allows a wealthy few to reap the rewards of your hard work, and only leaves scraps for the rest of us. And that makes me angry.
I’m here to call it like it is:
This is a Scam Economy.
It’s rigged against working people.
And it needs to be changed.
Across Eastern CT, people are struggling. You work hard, and yet it keeps getting harder and harder to make ends meet. Wages are too low. Taxes are too high. Our electric rates are among the highest in the country.
All of this is crushing middle and working-class families.
Connecticut is one of the richest states in the country, but it certainly
doesn’t feel like it for most of us. While the people of Eastern CT are just barely scraping by, the corporate elites and the wealthiest people in our state keep getting richer and richer.
The work that you do is what makes our state rich, and yet most of it gets stolen away by corporate elites and big business, and we never get to see it. These elites are not working hundreds of times harder than you work, or hundreds of hours longer than you work. And yet, they rake in hundreds of times what you make. That is fundamentally unfair.
If elected, I’ll fight to put more money in your pocket. I’ll fight to lower your property taxes. I’ll fight to lower your electric bills. And I’ll fight for pro-worker policies to strengthen collective bargaining and workplace democracy so that you can have a seat at the table.
I want to hear about the struggles you and your family are facing. I’ll talk to anyone—Republican, Democrat, or Independent—because I believe that regardless of party, we are all being scammed by this economy. We need a fighter to take on these ultra wealthy elites and build an economy that works for us, the people.
That’s why I’m running for State Representative, and I hope you’ll join me to help fight back against the elites who have instituted this Scam Economy.
Let’s take on the corporate elites and fight for an economy that works for us, the people!