… He's intolerant of anyone who disagrees with him. "Then OFA comes out on the deficit - they're wrong. "Moody's comes out - they're wrong," said House Republican leader Larry Cafero of Norwalk. He has pledged to get back the higher bond rating. He was the first governor who insiders could remember criticizing a respected Wall Street ratings agency, Moody's, which that scrutinizes financial nuts and bolts of balance sheets worldwide and carefully avoids any political agenda. Republicans also complain that Malloy blames everyone but himself for the state's problems, noting his criticisms of former governors, the nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis, and the independentMoody'sInvestors Service, which downgraded the state's bonds.
Republicans charge that the state's finances are still unsteady, marked by inflated estimates of givebacks from the state employee concessions and purported pension savings that the legislature's nonpartisan fiscal office said were wrong by $3.1 billion over 20 years. Paid sick days were blasted by business lobbyists as a job-killing, anti-business move. That was compounded, they say, by an increase in influence for unions and paid sick days for service companies. "We did grow 9,000 jobs last year - the first year we've grown jobs on a year-to-year basis since 2008."īut to Republicans and political opponents, Malloy's inaugural year was a failure marked by the largest tax increase in state history and a well-publicized downgrade in the state's bond rating. "I think Connecticut is a far better place this January than it was a January ago," Malloy said in an interview with The Courant's editorial board.
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