State Rep. Themis Klarides attended the 2009 Democracy Cup Award ceremony honoring the town of Orange, Wednesday morning, January 6 in the Town Hall. The award is given annually to small, medium and large towns and cities with the highest voter turn out. With a 58.9% voter turnout rate in 2009, Orange won the honor for the mid-size town category. Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz presented the trophy to First Selectman Jim Zeoli. Also in attendance were Rep. Paul Davis and Sen. Gayle Slossberg.
Archive for January 2010
HARTFORD — State Rep. Pamela Sawyer (R-55) on Jan. 25 accompanied a delegation of Chinese educators on a tour of the Capitol complex in Hartford. Sawyer represents Bolton in the state legislature, and the town’s school district is in the second go-around of an exchange program with Shandong Province – home to the great philosopher Confucius. The program is conducted through the Read More→
Rep. Vin Candelora received a Legislative Award from Connecticut Marine Trades Association (CMTA) chair Kathleen Burns and John Johnson during the annual Hartford Boat Show. The CMTA is a non-for-profit trade association representing issues affecting marine industries and recreational boat owners.
“I’m honored to accept the CMTA’s Legislative Award this year. Marine industries and retailers are important to our local economies, providing jobs and giving consumers the maritime goods and services they need,” Representative Candelora said. “Now more than ever, as state officials, we must support Connecticut businesses struggling to stay afloat in this national recession. We cannot tolerate tax increases and burdensome regulations that would threaten the economic engines that create jobs.”
Each year the boat show draws thousands of attendees from across New England. Their 300+ member business membership known as the “Voice of Recreation Boating” represents marine business owners’ interests to state, local and national government agencies.
Rep. John Rigby and Lt. Gov. Mike Fedele toured four manufacturing companies today, listening to company owners, employees and executives talk not only about the struggles they’ve experienced in this down economy but also their successes and targeted areas for growth. The two elected officials started the day at Becton Dickinson in Canaan, where executives talked about the high cost of electricity–something representatives of other companies would bring up later in the day. Rigby and Fedele visited the shop floor where the company builds is product–syringes. From there Fedele and Rigby headed to Barkhamsted for a visit with folks at Sterling Engineering, a company that manufacturing products aerospace components. Company President John Lavieri introduced many of his employees to Rigby and Fedele, including a recent graduate of Oliver Wolcott technical school who chose a career in manufacturing. A stop at Alcoa Howmet in Winsted followed, and then Rigby and Fedele visited E&E Tool Manufacturing Co. — one of Winsted’s newer companies. The business relocated to Winsted recently after local officials offered its owners tax incentives. Rigby joined local officials, such as Mayor Candy Perez and Selectman Glenn Albanesius, in hailing the company’s move to town — even providing owners William and Edward Clark with citations from the governor and the legislature.
HARTORD — Rep. Pam Sawyer today spent a bit of time with interns at the legislature today, providing the large group of college students with details about the varied duties and experiences that come with elected office in Connecticut.
On Sunday the Connecticut Post ran a story about an elderly woman that was the victim of fraud. She received a phone call from a person pretending to be her grandson and claiming he needed bail money to get of a Canadian jail. Over $2,000 later, it became apparent that the person on the other end of the phone was not actually her grandson. Read More→
Opinion by State Representative Marilyn Giuliano
The State of Connecticut is at a crossroads. During the past year we have been struggling with job losses, smaller household budgets and increased costs for groceries and school tuition. You deserve a lean, agile government that can tackle problems head-on before they spiral out of control.
We have two choices – continue business-as-usual with policies that favor special interest groups, or forge partnerships with residents and leaders ready for recovery, reform and reinvention of how our state government works.
I intend to bring a few common sense principles to Hartford during the upcoming legislative session which begins on February 3rd.
Don’t Spend More Than You Take-In. Keep spending aligned with revenues. Spending needs to be reduced to what we can reasonably anticipate in revenue without assessing new taxes.
Borrow Only What You Can Afford To Pay Back. During the last legislative session, the majority borrowed $1 billion to pay for a portion of the budget deficit, and that’s more money than the state has ever borrowed before. As a result, Connecticut’s good credit rating has been damaged costing taxpayers more in the long run. We need to restrict what can be bonded, and set a bonding cap.
If It’s Not Broken, Don’t Fix It. (And If It’s Not Working, Get Rid of It). State government must systematically evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of every state job and every state program. We need to demand results-based accountability of state programs, and stop funding wasteful, ineffective programs.
The More Government Tries to Do, The Less It Does Well. The most efficient government is a lean government. Connecticut must maintain funding commitments to towns in the areas of education, public safety, transportation, and public health. Cuts in state spending should shrink the size of government, not shrink the government’s commitment to its core functions.
We Should Have All the Government We Need, But ONLY the Government We Need. We need to focus on eliminating duplication of services by multiple state agencies, and cutting the excess and waste in state government before another penny in new taxes is raised.
Citizens deserve a state government that is efficient, cost-effective and responsive to those it serves. And that starts by making your government live within its means.
On Saturday, January 23, Rep. Selim Noujaim (R-Waterbury) had the opportunity to co-host the Dan Lovallo show, “Talk of the Connecticut” on WDRC. Rep. Noujaim discussed the issue of seat belts on school buses which is likely to come before the legislature this year as well as the committee process which will begin once the General Assembly convenes on February 3rd for the 2010 legislative session.
To see video of the opening of the show click below.
Rep. Camillo meets with Day Springs Homeschoolers at the State Capitol
by jdooley
January
22nd,
2010
Rep. Fred Camillo met with a group of Fairfield County homeschoolers from Day Springs today who were up for a tour of the State Capitol. Some of the homeschoolers were from the town of Greenwich.
NORTH FRANKLIN — Rep. Sawyer toured Kofkoff Egg Farm today and learned a little more about egg production and how the farm manages its chickens. Sawyer’s interest in the subject was piqued when another lawmaker at the Capitol introduced legislation that would have prohibited egg farmers (there are only a few left) from keeping their chickens in cages. That measure has yet to pass the legislature. Sawyer has with agricultural experts from the University of Connecticut about the topic, too, and the trip here today Read More→
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