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Candelora, Kelly & Environment Committee Republicans Criticize Democrat Plan to Make Heating Oil and Gasoline More Expensive

House Republican Leader Vincent Candelora (R-North Branford) and Senate Republican Leader Kevin Kelly (R-Stratford), and Republican lawmakers on the Environment Committee today released the following statement raising concerns about the Governor’s bill slated to be voted on this week which will make home heating oil and gasoline more expensive and resembles “TCI on steroids.” “Two years…

House Republicans, CT Businesses Decry Highway Use Tax on Trucks

HARTFORD—House Republicans on Wednesday joined a diverse group of business owners in talking about the negative impact the state’s highway use tax on trucks will have on Connecticut’s economy and encouraged others to testify Friday on legislation to eliminate it.   “The far-reaching implications of the highway use tax on trucks should not be underestimated,…

Republicans Outline Proposals to Make Connecticut Safer

HARTFORD—In advance of a series of Judiciary Committee public hearings next week, House and Senate Republicans on Wednesday outlined proposals aimed at making Connecticut safer while urging Democrats to veer from their lopsided approach to public safety that does little to deter crime.   “Last year, after speaking with police, community leaders, prosecutors, public defenders,…

Candelora, Kelly & Environment Committee Republicans Criticize Democrat Plan to Make Heating Oil and Gasoline More Expensive

House Republican Leader Vincent Candelora (R-North Branford) and Senate Republican Leader Kevin Kelly (R-Stratford), and Republican lawmakers on the Environment Committee today released the following statement raising concerns about the Governor’s bill slated to be voted on this week which will make home heating oil and gasoline more expensive and resembles “TCI on steroids.” “Two years…

House Republicans, CT Businesses Decry Highway Use Tax on Trucks

HARTFORD—House Republicans on Wednesday joined a diverse group of business owners in talking about the negative impact the state’s highway use tax on trucks will have on Connecticut’s economy and encouraged others to testify Friday on legislation to eliminate it.   “The far-reaching implications of the highway use tax on trucks should not be underestimated,…

Republicans Outline Proposals to Make Connecticut Safer

HARTFORD—In advance of a series of Judiciary Committee public hearings next week, House and Senate Republicans on Wednesday outlined proposals aimed at making Connecticut safer while urging Democrats to veer from their lopsided approach to public safety that does little to deter crime.   “Last year, after speaking with police, community leaders, prosecutors, public defenders,…

House Republicans Petition for Public Hearing on Eliminating Highway Use Tax

HARTFORD—House Republicans have used a parliamentary procedure to circumvent Democrat opposition to a bill that would save inflation-weary businesses and residents money by eliminating the new highway use tax (HUT) on heavyweight trucks. Republicans petitioned to raise H.B. 5290, An Act Eliminating the Highway Use Tax, after the Finance Committee’s Democratic leadership refused to even…

Candelora, Kelly & Environment Committee Republicans Criticize Democrat Plan to Make Heating Oil and Gasoline More Expensive

House Republican Leader Vincent Candelora (R-North Branford) and Senate Republican Leader Kevin Kelly (R-Stratford), and Republican lawmakers on the Environment Committee today released the following statement raising concerns about the Governor’s bill slated to be voted on this week which will make home heating oil and gasoline more expensive and resembles “TCI on steroids.” “Two years…

House Republicans, CT Businesses Decry Highway Use Tax on Trucks

HARTFORD—House Republicans on Wednesday joined a diverse group of business owners in talking about the negative impact the state’s highway use tax on trucks will have on Connecticut’s economy and encouraged others to testify Friday on legislation to eliminate it.   “The far-reaching implications of the highway use tax on trucks should not be underestimated,…

Republicans Outline Proposals to Make Connecticut Safer

HARTFORD—In advance of a series of Judiciary Committee public hearings next week, House and Senate Republicans on Wednesday outlined proposals aimed at making Connecticut safer while urging Democrats to veer from their lopsided approach to public safety that does little to deter crime.   “Last year, after speaking with police, community leaders, prosecutors, public defenders,…

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👀 Waterbury Mayor Neil O’Leary, a Democrat, provided the straight scoop on Connecticut’s crime crisis today during his state of the city address, and he described the pushback he’s received from Democrats on the Judiciary Committee who stand in the way of the criminal justice reform that O’Leary and other city mayors and police chiefs say is desperately needed.

➡️ “When you hear about crime in Connecticut…don’t look to the police, look at the legislature. Look to the legislature.”

➡️ “The laws have changed, giving more rights to those arrested than you all here in this room.”

Full remarks on crime here : bit.ly/3niyDFz
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🚨 Whether it be a broad-daylight carjacking of an elderly woman in Wethersfield, or this dangerous incident in East Haven, it's clear that majority Democrats are indifferent to the serious crimes that are now a part of Connecticut's culture. They believe their "smart on crime" policies are working. House Republican Leader Vincent Candelora weighs in during this WTNH 8 report from one of the town's he serves... ... See MoreSee Less

Leftist Democrats are at it again. During Friday’s Environment Committee meeting, they’ll vote for a controversial scheme that will lead to increased fuel and electricity prices while also diminishing your voice in decisions over environmental policies pursued by the Governor’s administration.

➡️ Details: bit.ly/3ZheGN2
➡️ Meeting agenda: bit.ly/40xtSXj
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Leftist Democrats are at it again. During Friday’s Environment Committee meeting, they’ll vote for a controversial scheme that will lead to increased fuel and electricity prices while also diminishing your voice in decisions over environmental policies pursued by the Governor’s administration. 

➡️ Details: https://bit.ly/3ZheGN2
➡️ Meeting agenda: https://bit.ly/40xtSXj

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