Moreno to CT Gov: an Ohioan Was Killed by an Illegal With a CT Driver's License. Please Explain?
This story raises questions about governance, accountability, and American values.
An Ohio family is burying someone because Connecticut decided a driver's license is a paperwork exercise rather than a public safety check. That's the actual chain of events here, and it deserves more than a talking point. Bernie Moreno sent a letter asking Ned Lamont to explain how an illegal alien ended up licensed to drive in his state, and got behind the wheel with consequences that reached across a state line into Ohio.
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Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH), whom I could see being the next Senate Majority Leader, has been the point of the lance in delivering the haymakers toward the liberal nonsense that permeates the Hill. He torched Dr.
Anthony Fauci over COVID’s origins — I mean, drove over him with a tank and set him on fire. Now, he’s sent a letter to Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont wondering why his state allowed an illegal alien to obtain a driver’s license, which led to the death of an Ohio resident.
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An Ohio family is burying someone because Connecticut decided a driver's license is a paperwork exercise rather than a public safety check. That's the actual chain of events here, and it deserves more than a talking point. Bernie Moreno sent a letter asking Ned Lamont to explain how an illegal alien ended up licensed to drive in his state, and got behind the wheel with consequences that reached across a state line into Ohio. That's not a hypothetical about immigration policy in the abstract. That's a dead constituent and a governor who owes an answer.
Connecticut is one of roughly twenty states that hands out licenses regardless of immigration status, on the theory that it makes roads safer because everyone gets tested and insured. Maybe that's true in the aggregate. It doesn't help the Ohio family whose loved one is gone. States get to set their own licensing rules, but they don't get to pretend those rules stop at their border when the people they license drive interstate highways every day. Lamont's office can call this federal overreach if it wants, but a senator from a neighboring state whose citizen died has every right to ask what vetting, if any, happened before that license was issued.
What's notable is how quiet Hartford has been. When a policy works as intended, governors usually can't wait to defend it on cable news. Silence here reads less like restraint and more like nobody has a good answer. If Connecticut's system caught this person and licensed him anyway, that's a process failure worth explaining. If it never checked at all, that's worse, and voters in Connecticut and everywhere else deserve to know which one it was.
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