Giegler Calls For Spending Cuts
  From: New Fairfield Citizen-News, November 18, 2009 Stop Digging Why It’s Time To Try A Different Kind Of Budget Not even two months have passed since the new state budget was implemented, and yet the State of Connecticut already finds itself $624 million in the red. To remedy this situation, the Governor has announced that she will call lawmakers back in special session to

Cafero: Act on Budget Deficit Now
If you know a hurricane barreling toward your community it’s perfectly fine to hope and pray that it veers in a different direction, but wouldn’t you take steps to protect your house just in case? That’s where we stand these days in Connecticut, where lawmakers have yet another budget deficit to deal with. So far, there are two schools of thought on how to address the problem: Sit on your hands and blame the governor’s office, as super-majority Democrats have done, or go back to the table and make government spending reductions as residents have demanded repeatedly. House and Senate Republicans advocated for the latter of the options today during a Capitol news co

Growing Budget Concerns
Rep. Larry Cafero, leader of the legislature’s House Republicans, objected to Democrats wrapping up the longest budget season in Connecticut’s history. Watch the video below, or check out this story.

Rep. Jan Giegler Talks H1N1 at Danbury High School

Merrill Cages Her Rat…
According to a Stamford Advocate report, House Majority Leader Denise Merrill has abandoned an effort that would see her hometown, Mansfield, receive a windfall of cash from the state at a time when every other community in Connecticut is slated to lose money from the Pequot Fund grant. A rat, as folks around the Capitol know, is legislation secreted-away inside a bill at the last minute to favor someone. Under the false premise that other