Press Releases

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• 4/5/2019 Governor Lamont Proclaims ‘Husky Weekend’ in Connecticut to Honor the UConn Women’s Basketball Team

  Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is proclaiming Friday, April 5, through Sunday, April 7, 2019 as “Husky Weekend” in the State of Connecticut in recognition of the UConn women’s basketball team playing in the NCAA Final Four tournament. This will be the team’s twelfth consecutive appearance in the Final Four.

• 4/5/2019 State of Connecticut Partners With Dalio Philanthropies to Strengthen Public Education and Promote Greater Economic Opportunity

  Ray and Barbara Dalio of Dalio Philanthropies today joined Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, First Lady Annie Lamont, leaders in the General Assembly, students and other stakeholders to announce the launch of a partnership strengthening public education and promoting greater economic opportunity in Connecticut. Through Connecticut’s leadership and the support of Dalio Philanthropies, the partnership seeks to raise $300 million over five years: $100 million from the State of Connecticut that will be matched by $100 million from Dalio Philanthropies and another $100 million from other philanthropists and business leaders.

• 4/3/2019 Governor Lamont and Lt. Governor Bysiewicz Urge General Assembly to Adopt Legislation Clarifying That Childcare Is a Legitimate Campaign Expense

  In response to a decision today by the State Elections Enforcement Commission (SEEC) stating that candidates in Connecticut cannot utilize the Citizens Election Program (CEP) to cover childcare costs when running for office, Governor Ned Lamont and Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz are urging the General Assembly to adopt legislation affirming in statute that childcare costs are a permitted campaign expenditure under the program.

• 4/2/2019 Governor Lamont and Lt. Governor Bysiewicz Mark Equal Pay Day at Woman-Owned Business

  Governor Ned Lamont and Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz today visited Penn Globe Gaslight Company, an independent woman-owned business in North Branford, to mark Equal Pay Day – the date that symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year.

• 4/2/2019 Governor Lamont Announces Stanley Black & Decker CEO and Yale School of Management Associate Dean Join Board of CERC

  Governor Ned Lamont and Connecticut Economic Resource Center, Inc. (CERC) co-chairs Indra Nooyi and Jim Smith today announced that Jim Loree, president and CEO of Stanley Black & Decker, and Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Sr., associate dean at Yale School of Management, are joining the board of CERC, a nonprofit corporation that seeks to foster business formation, recruitment, and growth in Connecticut.

• 4/1/2019 Governor Lamont Announces New Statewide Efforts to Confront Opioid Addiction and Save Lives

  Governor Ned Lamont, the Department of Public Health (DPH), and the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) today announced new coordinated efforts to confront and prevent the increase in opioid addiction across the State of Connecticut. During a news conference at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz, state agency commissioners, doctors, first responders, the General Assembly’s insurance and public health chairs, and persons in recovery joined the governor to launch the “LiveLOUD – Live Life with Opioid Use Disorder” statewide awareness campaign, as well as the new Naloxone and Overdose Response (NORA) smartphone app.

• 3/29/2019 Governor Lamont Statement on Failure of Transformer on the New Haven Line

  Governor Ned Lamont today released the following statement in response to the loss of a massive power transformer on the New Haven Line in Westport.

• 3/29/2019 Governor Lamont: Shared Services Puts Money Back Into the Classroom Where It Belongs

  Governor Ned Lamont today met with local town officials at the Region 4 Collaborative Preschool located at the Essex Elementary School where a preschool program between the towns of Chester, Deep River, and Essex has been operating for more than 20 years and has resulted in a significant cost reduction for taxpayers while directing more of those resources toward the classroom, leading to better outcomes for students. Town officials explained to the governor that while their communities were able to collaborate on the preschool program, state rules are preventing them from replicating the model with programs for grades K-12.

• 3/29/2019 Governor Lamont Nominates Members of the Criminal Justice Commission

  Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is nominating six highly respected and experienced individuals to serve as members of the state’s Criminal Justice Commission, the group responsible under the state constitution for appointing state prosecutors.

• 3/29/2019 Governor Lamont to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary: ‘Failure by ICE to Acknowledge the Pardoning Authority of Connecticut Creates an Unfair and Unjust Result for the Citizens of Our State’

  Governor Ned Lamont has delivered a letter to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen asserting that her department must recognize pardons granted in the State of Connecticut just as they would in any other state.

• 3/27/2019 Governor Lamont: Lehman’s Role and Experience Will Allow a Comprehensive Look at Economic Development

  Governor Ned Lamont today released the following statement following the confirmation in the State Senate of David Lehman as the commissioner of the Department of Economic and Community Development, in addition to his role as the administration’s senior economic advisor.

• 3/26/2019 Governor Lamont: Our Classrooms Should Reflect the World We Live In

  Governor Ned Lamont today held an event at Warren Harding High School in Bridgeport to highlight a legislative proposal he introduced to recruit more teachers of color into classrooms throughout Connecticut. Joined by leaders in the education field, administrators, teachers and hundreds of students, the governor discussed his goal to increase the number of teachers of color in the state by expanding mortgage assistance and student loan forgiveness, and enhanced reciprocity agreements with other states.

• 3/26/2019 Governor Lamont Announces Leaner Agenda for His First Meeting as Chairman of the State Bond Commission

  Governor Ned Lamont, who serves as chairman of the state Bond Commission, today released the agenda for the first meeting of the group that will be held since he was sworn into office as governor earlier this year. As part of the “debt diet” initiative he announced last month to reduce long-term debt service payments and save state taxpayer dollars, the items to be considered at the April 2 meeting represent a reduction in bonding by more than 65 percent as compared to bonding during the same time-period in prior years.

• 3/25/2019 Governor Lamont Selects Bryan Hurlburt to Serve as Agriculture Commissioner

  Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is nominating Bryan Hurlburt of Tolland to serve as commissioner of the Department of Agriculture.

• 3/25/2019 Governor Lamont Sets May 7th Special Election for State House Seat in Bridgeport

  Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he has scheduled Tuesday, May 7, 2019 as the date to hold a special election to fill a vacancy for state representative in the 130th Assembly District of the Connecticut House of Representatives, which consists of portions of Bridgeport.