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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

7-15-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy

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Pelto calls on Malloy Administration to reverse course on unfair health care policies
Pelto calls on Malloy Administration to reverse course on unfair health care policies As recently reported in the Connecticut media, the Malloy administration is developing a new “State innovation Model (SIM) that would negatively impact the availability of care for hundreds of thousands of Connecticut residents. Education and Democracy Party candidate for governor, Jonathan Pelto […] The post Pel

Why students leave high school (By Wendy Lecker)
Wendy Lecker’s latest commentary piece for the Stamford Advocate and Hearst Media Group pushes aside the rhetoric coming from the corporate education reform industry and its allies like Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy and his Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor. Instead Lecker lays out the real issues about graduation rates and why high school students leave […] The post Why students leave high s
FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES (aka politics today) by Carmen Lopez
Carmen Lopez is not only a former superior court judge, but she is a truth teller.  Below is an commentary piece she wrote earlier in the month, a version of which was published in the CT Post. It  provides a view into the political world of Connecticut, in which having friends in high places trumps […] The post FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES (aka politics today) by Carmen Lopez appeared first on Wait Wha


7-14-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy
Wait What?:   Wait What? Connecticut deserves a government that will tell its citizens the truthAnd a Governor who has the courage and conviction to work to set Connecticut back on the right path. As the CT Mirror explains in the series on where the candidates stand of the state budget, Pelto: State budget deficit reveals a broken fiscal system;  Former state Rep. Jonathan Pelto doesn’t have any t