Abstract

Who Owns Connecticut?

The State of Connecticut is owned by the Connecticut Electric Service Co. Inc. This is not a rhetorical statement. It is a practical truth. The Connecticut Eclectic Service Co, by the express terms of its charter and by the express terms of the charters of its subsidiaries, particularly the Connecticut Light and Power Company, can take any land that it wants from the citizens of the State. The owners of the land cannot make any effective protest or objection in the courts. Furthermore, the company, through the political machine built up and bossed by J. Henry Roraback, president of the company, controls both houses of the General Assembly, dictates to the Governor, and manipulates the other executive and administrative officials as it sees fit.