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2009 LEGISLATIVE SESSION SINE DIE OR A SHORT INTERMISSION?

Our local municipal leaders and boards must be commended for their extraordinary work in closing deep financial holes our=2 0towns have found themselves in. They have all been successful in passing balanced town budgets during this extreme economic downturn.  They rolled up their sleeves and faced the terrible hand they were dealt.
 
I wish I could report the same for our state government. Like her fellow chief executives at the local level, Governor Rell also faced the state fiscal crisis head on by making several rounds of spending rescissions, proposing five deficit mitigation plans to address the current year’s billion dollar shortfall, and putting on the table two difficult budget proposals to close the projected $8.7 billion deficit over the next two years without raising taxes.
 
In contrast, the legislature’s veto-proof major ity put forth a budget rife with $3.3 billion in new taxes. But when forced to vote on it in the senate, not a single legislator voted yes, not even those senators who had written the budget and spoken so highly of it in the press.


[WRTC Chairman Al Alper, State Senator Toni Boucher, Lt. Governor Michael Fedele, Newly seated WRTC member Gail Lavielle, RRTC Chairman Jim Carroll]

The people I meet in the day-to-day course of life are rightly dismayed that the General Assembly had five months to come up with a plan to eliminate the existing state budget deficit and pass a new two-year state budget, yet did neither.  (…more…)

 
June 5, 2008
Keeping an eye on the registrars
May 14, 2008
Toni Boucher looks forward to challenge
May 8, 2008
Rep. Toni Boucher — 'Do Something Budget'
May 1, 2008
Bruschi tapped by Republicans to run for 143rd Representative seat

Saturday, July 4, 2009
Annual Red, White & Blue softball game
Wilton High School baseball field @ 2pm
Republicans vs. Democrats

Tuesday, July 21, 2009
RTC meeting
Comstock Community Center, Rooms 21 A and B @ 8:00pm
Located at 180 School Road, Wilton
Endorse candidates to stand for municipal elections

Sunday, August 30, 2009
Annual WRTC Family BBQ
Fundraising event held at Chairman Alper’s residence
ALL who are interested in Fiscal & Personal Responsibility in Wilton, Connecticut and the USA are welcome to attend
Contact chairman@wiltonrtc.org if you want to join us

Tuesday, September 8, 2009
RTC meeting
Wilton Town Hall, Meeting Room A @ 8:00pm

Tuesday, October 13, 2009
RTC meeting
Wilton Town Hall, Meeting Room A @ 8:00pm

 
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