Letter To The Editor: State Candidates Not All The Same

To the editor,

Everything is on the line Nov. 3. Yet we’ve heard it all before. Everyone wants economic growth, good schools, safe streets — who doesn’t? But how exactly do we get there from here? State candidates may sound the same, but they are not the same.

How do we rebuild Connecticut’s economy and attract new business by defunding and disempowering our police? Nothing is possible without law and order — equal protection of all citizens, businesses, school safety and private property.

How do we encourage entrepreneurial growth without cutting crippling regulation and business taxes? How do we reduce property taxes and make Fairfield more affordable without substantial state bureaucratic and spending reform?

How do we have great schools if we don’t fight forced regionalization, which would usurp more taxpayer dollars and block town control over its own school policy and curricula?

How do we protect Fairfield’s diverse neighborhoods, rich historical heritage and lush natural beauty without reforming destructive 8-30g housing laws, which override our zoning laws?

Brian Farnen, running for re-election in my 132nd Assembly District, has made the most of his short first term on the state Education, Transportation and Finance Committees. As a Fairfield resident with school-age children he has lived the issues, himself. As in-house attorney for the Connecticut Green Bank he is a professional problem-solver.

Farnen is campaigning on good, old-fashioned common sense reform: re-fund the police; revise unfair 8-30g housing laws; liberate small businesses from over-taxing and regulation; restructure spending and streamline state government; oppose school regionalization; rebuild roads and rail infrastructure by utilizing low-cost federal funds and rededicating Connecticut’s leaky Transportation Fund.

Our ubiquitous state senator, Tony Hwang (28 SD); Rep. Laura Devlin (134 AD), who was instrumental in defeating the notorious Toll Bill; and newcomer Joanne Csonka (133 AD), from the town Affordable Housing Committee, are on the same page. I’d vote for all of them if I could.

Ellen Jacob

Fairfield