Dear Candidate Bob
Your campaign is sputtering and here's partly why
Connecticut’s Republican candidate for governor, Bob Stefanowski, doubled his income during 2019-2021 when he worked for the Saudi Arabian project known as NEOM. One of that project’s investors is the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, and the project incorporates the name of Prince Mohammed bin Salman in its title.
Does that name ring a bell? It should.
Stefanowski, who said that since he started campaigning he’s cut his work in Saudi Arabia “by 98%,” at first said a non-disclosure agreement did not allow him to say he’d done work in the kingdom (which was crap), and then he said a non-disclosure agreement would not allow him to say whether he has met the above-mentioned prince, who in 2018 approved the horrible murder and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Stefanowski told the Courant:
“I can’t discuss the people. My NDA doesn’t allow me to discuss who, when or where I’ve met with. I can just talk about this project. I can’t comment on specific meetings. If I start answering, then what about this person, what about that person? I don’t have the authority to talk about it.’'
Bull. Shit. I’ve taken to answer Bob’s bleating tweets with this:
Some of us won’t forget the death of this journalist, and Bob shouldn’t, either.
My working assumption is that every Republican candidate is a MAGA wolf in sheep's clothing, no matter what they say or don't say. If three federal judges will lie to get a lifetime seat on SCOTUS, then any of them will lie in order to get a 2-, 4-, or 6-year elected office. Whether Stefanowski tells the truth about his work for the Saudis or not, makes no difference to me. He never had my vote.
Oh, I hope his campaign is sputtering.
How does one know?