The editor of the Norwich Bulletin has this column, deploring Connecticut’s discriminatory public funding law for candidates for state office. The column also laments that there are no bills pending to ease the discriminatory aspect of the public funding program. Nominees of parties that polled 20% for Governor in the last election get full public funding with no petition, but independent candidates, and the nominees of new parties, need a petition of 20% of the last vote cast in order to get public funding (they must also raise the same number of small contributions that major party members also must raise).