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From: "Rep. Abercrombie, Catherine"
<Catherine.Abercrombie@cga.ct.gov>
To: <cvdunson@yahoo.com>
Hi Cheryl,
The bill we have been working on should be ready
next week. I feel it is a bill we can all be proud
of. I will be supporting the bill. Please feel free
to pass the word. Thank you for the e-mail and your
support on this issue.
Sincerely
Rep Cathy Abercrombie
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| Dear Ms. Dunson and Ms. Burnett
and Members of the League of Women Voters:
Thank you for taking the time to email me regarding
the ongoing issue of campaign finance reform. I
appreciate receiving your comments.
I will support a bill that removes all "special
interest" money from political campaigns
immediately. This would include lobbyists,
corporations, PACs and unions.
The democratic leadership have not presented the
General Assembly with a bill fro me review. I am
hopeful that a vote will be taken soon.
Again, thank you for writing and please do not
hesitate to follow up with me should you have any
further comments on this or any other matter of
state concern.
Sincerely,
Bill Aman
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| Subject: RE: LWV Urges Your Leadership and Support
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:26:43 -0500
From: "Rep. Boucher, Toni" <Toni.Boucher@cga.ct.gov>
To: <cvdunson@yahoo.com>
I will be supporting all of the proposals for
campaign finance reform including public financing.
I will, however, be looking very carefully at the
method used to fund public financing. Using general
fund monies may place valuable dollars for the truly
needy and nursing home patients at risk. If money
runs out in years where there are an overabundance
of candidates (as happened in MA) we may run into
the problem of the constitutional spending cap. I
have yet to decide my vote on the appropriate
funding mechanism for public financing but have
signed onto to all other aspects of this bill.
State Representative Toni Boucher
Assistant Minority Leader
District 143
860-240-8700
860-240-0207 fax
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| 10/31/05
Dear Ms. Dunson,
Thank you very much for writing me on campaign
finance reform - which is, in my view, the most
important issue facing state government today.
As you may be aware, I have fought for public
financing of campaigns since first winning election
to the Assembly in 1994. There is no issue to which
I have dedicated more time than this one. In 1999
and again in 2000, my Majority Leader put me in
charge of collecting votes for public financing -
and, in both years, we garnered a majority of votes.
Unfortunately, John Rowland vetoed the bill - and
now we know why.
Right now, I am working hard with friends in both
chambers to make sure that we send another strong,
workable public financing bill to the Governor's
desk this month. It is my firm belief that, a short
time from now, the House and Senate will pass a
landmark public financing bill in concurrence. The
bill will ban contributions from contractors,
corporations and special interests, and give us
campaigns in which candidates are most indebted to
the people - not special interests. In short, it
will take the big money out of state politics. And
I am cautiously optimistic that, this time, the
Governor will sign the measure.
Thank you again for taking the time to write me on
this most critical issue. Best wishes to you and
your family for a happy, healthy fall.
Sincerely,
Andy
Andrew M. Fleischmann
State Representative
18th Assembly District
West Hartford, CT
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| Subject: RE: Please support Campaign Finance Reform
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:08:11 -0500
From: "Rep. Hennessy, Jack"
<Jack.Hennessy@cga.ct.gov>
To: <cvdunson@yahoo.com>
Yes, unequivocally, I am for campaign finance
reform.
Jack
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| Subject: Please support Campaign Finance Reform
From: "Rep. DebraLee Hovey"
<DebraLee.Hovey@housegop.state.ct.us>
To: <cvdunson@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:34:04 -0500
Dear Cheryl Dunson:
Thank you for contacting my office regarding your
support for election reform. I wanted to let you
know that I supported enacting real campaign finance
reform back in June; I supported real campaign
finance reform on October 11 and I will continue to
support real campaign finance reform. Many of my
Republican colleagues and I have pushed for campaign
finance reforms on several occasions and on each
occasion, we have been rebuffed by the Democrat
Majority.
While I do not believe in public financing, I do
believe that there are other ways in which we can
reform the campaign system. I feel that changing the
number of years for being in an office from 2 to 3
or even 4 years would help decrease the need for
campaigning and fundraising. Further steps could
also be taken to require full disclosure and
limiting PAC contributions and Ad books would be an
improvement.
I thank you for taking the time to contact my office
and should you like to discuss this or any other
issue further, please do not hesitate to contact my
office.
Sincerely,
DebraLee Hovey
State Representative
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| Subject: Re: LWV Urges Your Leadership and Support
From: "Rep. Themis Klarides"
<Themis.Klarides@housegop.state.ct.us>
To: <cvdunson@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:32:28 -0500
Dear Cheryl Dunson:
Thank you for contacting my office regarding your
support for election reform. I wanted to let you
know that I supported enacting real campaign finance
reform back in June; I supported real campaign
finance reform on October 11 and I will continue to
support real campaign finance reform. Many of my
Republican colleagues and I have pushed for campaign
finance reforms on several occasions and on each
occasion, we have been rebuffed by the Democrat
Majority. I strongly believe that any switch to
public financing, must be done in conjunction with a
complete overhaul of our current system including
the creation of a full disclosure policy along with
the elimination of special interest money. I thank
you for taking the time to contact my office and
should you like to discuss this or any other issue
further, please do not hesitate to contact my
office.
Sincerely,
Themis Klarides
Assistant Minority Leader
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| "Rep. Lewis, Joan" <Joan.Lewis@cga.ct.gov> wrote:
Cheryl, I do plan to support it.
Joan Lewis State
Rep. 8th District
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| Subject: LWV Urges Your Leadership and Support
From: "Craig Miner"
<Craig.Miner@housegop.state.ct.us>
To: <cvdunson@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:35:32 -0500
Dear Cheryl Dunson:
Thank you for contacting my office regarding your
support for election reform. I wanted to let you
know that I supported enacting real campaign finance
reform back in June; I supported real campaign
finance reform on October 11 and I will continue to
support real campaign finance reform. Many of my
Republican colleagues and I have pushed for campaign
finance reforms on several occasions and on each
occasion, we have been rebuffed by the Democrat
Majority. I strongly believe that any switch to
public financing, must be done in conjunction with a
complete overhaul of our current system including
the creation of a full disclosure policy along with
the elimination of PACs and Ad Books. I thank you
for taking the time to contact my office and should
you like to discuss this or any other issue further,
please do not hesitate to contact my office.
Sincerely,
Craig Miner
State Representative
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| -- "Rep. O'Rourke, Jim" <Jim.ORourke@cga.ct.gov>
wrote:
My vote will be a YES!
Jim O'Rourke
State Representative
32nd District
Cromwell Portland Middletown
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| From: "Rep. Powers, Dolly" <Dolly.Powers@cga.ct.gov>
To: <cvdunson@yahoo.com>
Dear Cheryl:
Thank you for your email concerning possible
legislation on public financing of political
campaigns during this special session of the
legislature.
I have repeatedly voted for and supported
bans/limits on lobbyist and state contractor
contributions, bans on ad books, limits on
legislative PACs and PAC contributions, transparent
filing and reporting of campaign finances, etc.
This is all part of the public record.
Also part of the public record is my opposition to
using taxpayers' dollars to fund everyone's
campaigns. Part of running for office is being able
to demonstrate citizen support for your campaign.
That support includes the ability to raise funds
from your constituents. I personally do not want my
tax dollars paying campaign expenses for some of the
candidates I've encountered over the years!
Thanks again for your comments and support. Take
care!
Sincerely,
Claudia "Dolly" Powers
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| --- "Rep. Spallone, James" <James.Spallone@cga.ct.gov>
wrote:
You can! I support campaing finance reform and
public financing 100%. Thank you for your e-mail.
Sincerely, Rep. Spallone
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| Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 12:43:38 -0500
From: "Rep. Wallace, Lew" <Lew.Wallace@cga.ct.gov>
To: <cvdunson@yahoo.com>
Dear Ms. Dunson:
At this point there is bill. Once a bill is proposed
I will give it my full consideration. I do have
grave concerns with how public financing is attained
and funds distributed.
State Rep. Lew Wallace
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| From: "Rep. Sean Williams"
<Sean.Williams@housegop.state.ct.us>
To: <cvdunson@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Please support Campaign Finance Reform
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:39:21 -0500
Cheryl-
Thank you for your kind email informing me that my
vote on campaign finance reform will be reported to
the members of the League of Women Voters. I am
willing to support campaign finance reform that
includes:
1. A ban on adbooks
2. A ban on PAC contributions
3. A ban on state contractor contributions
4. A ban on lobbyist contributions
This would remove all of the special interest money
from political campaigns. I am not willing to
support any type of public financing. There is
absolutely no reason why public money needs to be
used to finance political campaigns. I am sure you
would agree that there are many pressing social
issues that are in dire need of government funding
and to divert any money away from these worthy
causes and towards the financing of political
campaigns would be a travesty.
Additionally, in the interest of full disclosure, I
certainly hope that when you report back to your
members on my vote against public financing of
campaign that you will also report to them that one
of the major organizations supporting the supporting
the "Clean Up Connecticut Coalition" is the
Connecticut Communist Party (for your review, the
list of organizations can be found at
http://www.cleanupconnecticut.org/about/ .)
Though I am a little bit surprised that your
organization would put its good reputation on the
line by affiliating itself with the Connecticut
Communist Party, I would expect that you will be
informing your members of your new affiliation.
Sincerely,
Sean Williams
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| Subject: Re: LWV Urges Your Leadership and Support
From: "Rep. Sean Williams"
<Sean.Williams@housegop.state.ct.us>
To: <cvdunson@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:37:01 -0500
Hi Cheryl-
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you
for the campaign you have orchestrated in an effort
to enact public financing of political campaigns.
Had the LWV and other organizations who support
public financing not urged several of my
constituents to e-mail and call my office, I would
not have had the opportunity to tell all of the
things that you and the other groups conveniently
left out while asking them to urge me to support
this bill.
Most reasonable people agree that special interest
money needs to be removed from political campaigns.
However, many of the people referred to me by you
and other special interest groups over the past few
months have also agreed that public financing of
political campaigns is not necessary and that there
are plenty of good possible uses for public money
other than for political campaigns.
Once again, thank you for referring these people to
me. It has given me great satisfaction to engage in
a healthy debate with people on this issue and it
has been a great education for me to see how little
they have been told by organizations such as yours
about the very issue you are asking them to speak to
me about.
Sincerely,
Sean Williams
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| Subject: RE: Please support Campaign Finance Reform
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:14:58 -0500
From: "Rep. Willis, Roberta"
<Roberta.Willis@cga.ct.gov>
To: <cvdunson@yahoo.com>
Absolutely!!
Sincerely,
Roberta Willis
State Representative 64th District
Torrington, Goshen, Cornwall, Sharon & Salisbury
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| Rep. Willis, Roberta" <Roberta.Willis@cga.ct.gov>
wrote:(later in the day)
We are in Dem House caucus now reviewing the
proposal--I think it is going well. Some members
are still quite reluctant but generally the feel has
been good. I think we may have a bill next week.
Sincerely,
Roberta Willis
State Representative
Torrington, Goshen, Cornwall, Sharon & Salisbury
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