The House Republican Caucus has 53 members serving 100 towns. We are dedicated to improving the lives of Connecticut families and the strength of our small business. In 2018 we successfully negotiated a bipartisan budget that places strict caps on borrowing and spending. We also imposed a cap on “volatility” making it so large short term spikes in revenue are placed in the Rainy Day Fund.
HARTFORD—House Republican Leader Vincent Candelora and Rep. Holly Cheeseman, Ranking Member of the Finance Committee, released the following statement today in response to Gov. Lamont’s decision to retroactively enhance the 2020 Connecticut Earned Income Tax Credit: “This unilateral, retroactive change to tax policy made by Governor Lamont isn’t just political pandering, it’s a slap in…
In a letter to Governor Lamont on Monday, State Representatives Nicole Klarides-Ditria (R-105), David Labriola (R-131), Ben McGorty (R-122), Cindy Harrison (R-69) and State Senate Republican Leader Kevin Kelly (R-21) and State Senator Eric Berthel (R-32) called on him to honor his campaign promise to provide state funding for the important Valley Regional Fire School.…
HARTFORD–House Republicans, led by Rep. Vincent Candelora, held a news conference today about Gov. Lamont’s plan to have state government facilitate a vaccine passport program in Connecticut while also urging legislative Democrats to hold the governor accountable by demanding more information about his initiatives.
A 16-year-old juvenile stabbed a 42-year-old man in the chest early this morning at the Irving Gas Station on East Main Street in Waterbury, and the victim was pronounced dead at St. Mary's Hospital a short time later.
From a Waterbury PD press release.....
"On 1-26-22 at 3:14 AM, WPD responded to a medical assist complaint at 275 Fairlawn Avenue, which was later identified
as a homicide investigation.
Officers located an unresponsive male sitting in a vehicle parked in the driveway at the residence with a sustained stab wound to his upper right chest area. The male victim was transported to St. Mary’s Hospital where he was later pronounced deceased at 3:56 AM.
The male victim has been identified as Marlon Brathwaite (42 ) of the said residence. WPD investigators were able to determine that Brathwaite was stabbed by a 16-year-old juvenile male during an earlier altercation at 1417 East Main ST (Irving Gas Station).
Investigators have located the juvenile suspect and he is currently in custody of WPD with charges pending related to this incident. This incident is an active investigation and anyone with information is requested to contact the Waterbury Police
Detective Bureau at (203) 574-6941 or Crime Stoppers at (203) 755-1234. There is no further information available at
this time.
Latest from the Courant on this percolating controversy within the Lamont administration...
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➡️ ➡️ That’s when a special investigation ordered by Gov. Ned Lamont is expected to complete its examination of Colangelo’s decision to give a job to the daughter of a politically influential Lamont budget officer — at the same time Colangelo was pressing the budget office to raise the salaries of senior prosecutors.
➡️ ➡️ If Twardy looks beyond the Division of Criminal Justice, as McDonald believes is the case, it will be toward the state Department of Administrative Services and the Office of Policy and Management. Diamantis, a lawyer and former state representative from Bristol, worked at both agencies and managed the state program that finances municipal school construction programs.
Gov. Lamont hired a special investigator for up to $75,000. Here’s what that probe is looking at.
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Not many years ago, it was more likely that Connecticut’s top criminal prosecutor would be looking...
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