Gov. M. Jodi Rell released the following statement on Monday night after the legislature passed two bills during a special session in an attempt to close the state's budget deficit.
"I am profoundly disappointed - again - at the lack of leadership and lack of action by the Democratic majority in" [...]
The state House of Representatives and the Senate both voted Monday to postpone cuts in the estate tax that had been strongly favored by Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Republican legislators.
The Democratic-controlled House voted 97 to 39 to postpone two key changes for two years as seven moderate Democrats joined with [...]
Last week, Democrats suggested that Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell call the state employee unions back to the bargaining table to help mitigate the current budget deficit by delaying a scheduled $100 pension payment. On Monday, Rell said her chief labor negotiator, Saranne Murray, reached out to the [...]
Hartford (WTNH) – Connecticut Democrats wants Gov. Jodi Rell to authorize more money for state construction projects, a sector of the economy that has been especially hard hit.
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[...]Earlier this week the House Democratic caucus claimed that Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell could call a coalition of state employee unions back to the table to renegotiate its contract.
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In Governor M. Jodi Rell’s speech before the Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce yesterday in Ansonia, she took the Democratically-controlled Legislature to task for not taking action on the state’s budget deficit:
“When our legislature can come in — gavel in and gavel out — and not accomplish anything but the [...]
(WTNH) – Governor Rell said today that the numbers that Democratic leaders are using are phony made up numbers.
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[...]The co-chairmen of the legislature’s Judiciary Committee wrote this letter to Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell Wednesday asking her to delay the nominations of a dozen Superior Court judges.
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From the Federation:
This was their time to shine! An opportunity for 14 municipal leaders, at the invitation of Governor Rell, to [...]
Interesting strategy from Republican commentator and Whole Foods aficionado Michael Petrelli. He writes in yesterday's Wall Street Journal:
There's no law that someone who enjoys organic food, rides his bike to work, or wants a diverse school for his kids must also believe that the federal' [...]
In addition to not fixing the state’s budget deficit Tuesday, the General Assembly also didn’t address Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell proposal to repair the state’s public campaign finance system.
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As predicted, the Democrats came, they looked and they ran. House and Senate Democrats from the Super Majority met in Special Session for all of 15 minutes Tuesday at the State Capitol and took no action on a $625 million deficit. Governor M. Jodi Rell, who called [...]
(Updated 2:30 p.m.) The House and the Senate convened Tuesday, then just as quickly adjourned without presenting an alternative to Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s deficit mitigation plan.
[...]On his blog yesterday, Danbury’s popular Mayor Mark Boughton put it bluntly:
Here is a news flash…the State of Connecticut is broke. Busted. Cleaned out.
Mr. Boughton was appointed by the Governor recently to serve on the municipal mandate relief commission that Rell coupled with her proposed reduction in municipal aid.
Amid [...]
The General Assembly will convene Tuesday for a special session, but it won’t be the one Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell requested.
[...]Recently I was asked by Governor Rell serve on a municipal mandate relief commission to help with the growing budget crisis in Hartford. Our charge was to develop a list of unfunded mandates that are passed along to cities and towns by the state and present them to the Legislature [...]
A group of advocates and lawmakers said 36 percent of Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s proposed spending cuts directly target children and would add another 5,000 workers to the state’s unemployment roll.
[...]The Rothenberg Political Report is saying Connecticut is leaning Democratic in the governor's race because Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell is not seeking re-election.
Previously, Rothenberg had rated the race as a toss-up. But the rating has now been changed to "lean takeover'' - meaning that the Democrats have a solid shot at" [...]
The 12-member panel of municipal leaders and lawmakers created by Gov. M. Jodi Rell to cut $84 million in municipal aid from the state budget voted Wednesday not to cut the funding.
[...]Prompted by the state's fiscal crisis, Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell is selling off state property - ranging from the Seaside Regional Center with spectacular waterfront views to nearly 60 slivers of land of less than one acre each.
The largest property is the 32-acre Seaside property on Long Island Sound [...]
Gov. M. Jodi Rell has offered a detailed plan to cut the close to $600 million budget deficit for the current two-year state fiscal plan agreed to in September. Gov. Rell has taken the leadership steps needed to reduce the flow of red ink and to [...]
The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities has come out strongly against Gov. M. Jodi Rell's proposal to cut $84 million in the middle of the fiscal year in state aid for cities and towns.
CCM submitted the following written testimony to the budget-writing appropriations committee during a public hearing Wednesday that lasted [...]
Local elected officials, health care advocates, and hundreds of individuals and organizations gathered Wednesday afternoon at the Legislative Office Building to address Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s proposed budget cuts.
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