To the Editor:
Once again, Sen. Chris Murphy has shown a troubling pattern of sidestepping his own record. On many critical issues, his actions and whereabouts seem to have fallen into a memory hole, only to be conveniently forgotten until after November 5.
Take the recent tragedy at a Georgia high school. A student gunman was stopped by a school resource officer, preventing what could have been an unspeakable loss of life. Before the crime scene tape was even removed, Murphy rushed to the cameras to decry current gun laws. Yet, what he failed to mention was his own legislative proposal to remove school resource officers altogether. If Murphy had his way, those students and teachers would have been defenseless against a violent attacker.
Let me remind you of his exact words, unedited, from his own press release: “Police shouldn’t be in schools.” He claims this would stop the arrest of the ‘wrong kids’ for minor disciplinary actions. Now, he tries to spin this by saying he only wanted to stop federal funding for these officers. Since when has Murphy been a reliable fiscal conservative?
That’s Chris Murphy at his finest. Dodging accountability, glossing over his far-left policy record, and deflecting attention from his warm feelings toward terrorist-promoting rogue regimes. He continues to blame Republicans, conservatives, and President Trump for everything under the sun.
We see this behavior all too often. Murphy insists crime is down, inflation is under control (does he pay an Eversource bill?), and Kamala Harris was an ‘effective’ border czar. The senator even goes so far as to blame our ally, Israel, for Hamas’s refusal to broker peace.
As a candidate for U.S. Senate, I’ve made it clear I’m eager to debate these issues. The voters of Connecticut deserve the truth. But Murphy has shown no interest in engaging beyond a single debate on the eve of the election.
Are the media clamoring for more debates? So far, I haven’t seen them. Just days ago, I committed to attending any debate proposed, anywhere in our state. So far, nothing.
Connecticut deserves better. Connecticut deserves the truth.
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Matthew Corey is running on the Republican ticket to unseat incumbent Democratic senator, Chris Murphy