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To the Editor:

Join me in supporting Rebekah Harriman-Stites as Connecticut State Representative for the 106th district. Long before I got to know Rebekah personally, I’d heard her name. Initially as a leader of Middle Gate’s PTA, then as a member of Newtown’s Board of Education, Rebekah has always been a strong advocate for Newtown’s students. But she’s also known as a grass-roots organizer who brings people together to take action in a bipartisan way through Newtown Forward. She’s coordinated phone campaigns to express concerns to state and national legislators and helped empower local residents to understand how they can have a real voice on issues important to them.

Rebekah has a voice we need. A voice of conviction and advocacy. She will speak for Newtown, not for a political party.

As a member of Newtown’s Board of Education, Rebekah knows firsthand what harm could have come to Newtown’s taxpayers if the Governor Malloy-sponsored state budget had passed. It included significantly reduced municipal aid to Newtown, including millions of dollars in education funding and other state revenues that would have been lost. No doubt, there is continued danger of this issue resurfacing in future budget cycles, and we need Rebekah in Hartford to help prevent it by fighting from the inside. Rebekah understands that protecting Newtown’s state funding is critical, yet she understands equally well that no single political party in Hartford has all the answers to right our state’s economic ship.

Rebekah will be a Democrat whose voice and opinion will stand up to partisan group-think because she realizes that the big problems our state is facing will only be solved by rising above party politics.

As always, my comments are my own and not on behalf of the Legislative Council of which I am a member.

Paul Lundquist

148 Currituck Road, Newtown August 15, 2018

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