Connecticut Local Politics

Lt. Gov. Fedele commenting on CT Local Politics
Lt. Governor Fedele joins us from Hartford today, and will be talking with us for about an hour. Please join me in welcoming him to our site!
As usual, let’s keep questions civil and courteous–although it’s obviously fine to disagree and ask the hard questions.
Lt. Governor Fedele, welcome!

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Update We’re looking at around 1:45pm for a start time. Stay tuned.
The Lt. Governor is running late, due to a funeral this morning. The live blog WILL be happening today, but will take place at 2pm instead of 1pm.
I really apologize. Please do stick around–he will be here and he will be talking to [...]

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REMINDER
Have questions about the session? Want to know where we’re going from here?
Stop by CTLP tomorrow afternoon from 1-2pm to chat with our Lt. Governor, Michael Fedele, about these and other issues! Don’t miss this opportunity to talk with our state’s second-highest elected official.

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Announcement: Lt. Governor Michael Fedele will definitely be joining us live this Friday from 1-2pm to answer your questions about the session and anything else that’s on your mind. Please stop by for this unique opportunity to talk with one of our state’s leaders!
Republican presidential candidates debate tonight. The Dodd campaign (!) has promised another [...]

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(Note: this is a response from Lt. Governor Fedele to comments posted in this post from him last week. –GC)
As Genghis stated earlier, my office has offered to find some time for me to live blog with the community. We will keep you updated as to when that will occur. And for those who questioned [...]

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It has been awhile since I last submitted a column so I wanted to touch base with the Connecticut Local Politics community.
I�ve been reading the comments that have been posted on various stories and I have to say that this can be a brutal group at times, but honest as well. There is quite [...]

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A few recent news articles have gotten me, and many others, thinking about what exactly is going to be happening in Connecticut politics in 2010. What do we know? Rob Simmons will in all probability be Jodi Rell’s Business Advocate, Sen. Chris Dodd may not run again for re-election in 2010, Jodi [...]

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Now, as promised in my second post: the Governor�s budget.
Before judgment is passed and before you hit the �post a comment� button on your computers, I ask you to read everything you can about the budget, read the budget itself, listen to the debate and then make the decision for yourselves.
Many [...]

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(Note: You can see the Lt. Governor’s original post here.)
This is my second post to the CT Local Politics community and again I�d like to thank Genghis for his kind invitation to be a part of the conversation. Before I post my column addressing the Governor�s budget, I had promised to address several concerns that [...]

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Note: this is the first in an occasional series of columns that will be written for this site by new Lt. Governor Michael Fedele. Please leave (constructive!) comments for him–he hopes to address your concerns and comments in forthcoming columns. Thanks very much to the Lt. Governor for being willing to engage our community like [...]

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