Monday night’s Republican debate was the first time 49-year-old former hedge fund manager David Stemerman was exposed to a statewide TV audience. He’s now launching a statewide TV
ad campaign.

Stemerman is seen and heard on his first broadcast TV commercial saying; “I’m David Stemerman.  We need a Governor who knows how to make money.  I use outside the box thinking in the business I built from scratch.  My specific plan wll get us out of the mess the Hartford politicians got us into.”

He shunned the Republican Party Convention process and says he has submitted twice the number of necessary signatures to the Secretary of the State to get on the August Primary ballot.  He says he’ll spend what it takes to win, and so far has written checks to his campaign for $2.8 million.

Stemerman says that front runner Mark Boughton‘s plan to eliminate the State Income Tax over ten years is an impossible dream adding, “I’m a numbers guy and I can’t get the numbers to work.  When we made investments, we had a nice idea but then I said ‘let’s go run the numbers.’  We ran the spread sheet analysis and I can’t get the numbers to work.”

Stemerman has a detailed plan on his website to cut taxes that he says would stimulate the state economy.  He also says tolls are not needed and endorses the Trump-like idea of encouraging public-private partnerships to improve transportation and he’s open to the MGM casino proposal for Bridgeport saying,  “Important for us is to be open to new deals.  It’s one of the things that we’ve seen from our President is that he brings a different kind of leadership.  He doesn’t take anything as ‘given.”

Stemerman knows that wealthy, self funding candidates like him have failed to get elected here in the past, but he feels times are different now, the state is in serious difficulty and more people will be willing
to give a non politician businessman a try.