Volume 24, Number 44
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Thursday, November 3, 2022
Candidates make their closing pitch to voters Veach: A leader you can count on By State Rep. Donna Veach
Often times you can predict someone's future behavior based on their past actions. My priorities have never wavered: Fighting to reduce the middle-class tax burden, increasing public safety, standing up for parents rights, increasing government transparency, and removing Hartford from local decisions. I have always taken great pride doing exactly what I promised you I'd do – fighting for the issues I said I would. Transparency, honesty, and trust in government are essential to me.
As your state representative, I've worked to make our communities safer while supporting our law enforcement officers by rolling back dangerous policies included within the police accountability bill, introduced and coVeach sponsored legislation to address catalytic converter theft, and introduced multiple bills to address juvenile crime. These efforts have led me to be the candidate endorsed by See Veach, A5
Fazzino: Building bridges By Jack Fazzino
This fall, I've canvassed in one of the reddest parts of Connecticut. It has rambling country roads, gnarled apple trees, and large swatches of open space. To me, it's home. Home is far from work, at least by Connecticut standards. I travel from Berlin to Bridgeport and back almost every day, spending Fazzino about 100 total minutes in my car. One evening, after finishing my commute, I entered a new neighborhood to meet with voters. A married couple answered door number 16. I began the conversation as I usually do, asking them about important local or statewide issues. See Fazzino, A4
McNair: Ready to work for you
Arata: Why I’m running
By Denise McNair
By Lou Arata
One thing that I pride myself on is being an independent thinker. Ask anyone who knows me or has worked with me. I don’t vote according to ideology. To me, good policy is good politics. Voting solely along ideological lines often means missing the mark on key opportunities that can help people, towns, businesses and the state as a whole. I would also suggest that “where we are today” in Connecticut is much better than what the doomsayers might say. Whether we're Democrats, Republicans or unaffiliated, it's important to note CT's progress – progress we all now share and should be
proud of, while being mindful that there's more work to be done. CT is running a surplus of $4 billion. That's not a result of inflation, that's in spite of it. That's not on the backs of workers, that's McNair working together with labor. That's not a burden but a blessing. It means covering future costs such as pension funding, setting the stage for a more prosperous tomorrow.
Some politicians are trying to make this election about anything other than your pocket book. The inflation rate in the United States is hovering over 8 percent-- the highest inflation rate in 40 years. Democrats have “trifecta” control in WashArata ington D.C. and Connecticut. They control the House, Senate and the Executive branch, President and Governor, respectively. Families are struggling and the sad state of our nation, hampered by our dismal financial situation, is because of the Democrat policies they’ve forced on the working people of this country.
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