After winning four consecutive court decisions at the state and federal level, Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele was awarded the final allotment of public money Wednesday for his political campaign.
The State Election Enforcement Commission in Hartford voted unanimously to award the final portion of the money to Fedele, which was $312,500. His overall total is $2.5 million, and he has been spending the money quickly with television commercials that are filling the airwaves on Connecticut stations.
Despite losing four court appeals in rapid succession, Republican front runner Tom Foley is still asking Fedele to return the money.
"It is unbelievable that the SEEC would continue to award a supplemental grant to Mike Fedele's campaign after those grants have been found unconstitutional," said Foley campaign manager Justin Clark said in a statement. "The Lieutenant Governor is a wealthy man who has the money to fund his own campaign. Yet he continues to ask his friends at the SEEC for more money from hard working taxpayers to pay for bumper stickers and TV ads. We ask Mike Fedele to do the right thing and not accept these funds. And we ask one more time - Mike, have you returned the unconstitutional money, yet?"