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Quick Facts
Personal Details

Caucuses/Former Committees

Member, Technology Task Force, 1993-present

Town Representative, Council on Public Facilities

Former Co-Chair, Education Committee, Connecticut State Senate

Member, Education Committee, National Conference of State Legislators

Former Vice Chair, Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee, Connecticut State Senate

Member, Labor Relations Committee, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities

Former Member, Legislative Management Committee, Connecticut State Senate

Member, Liability and Insurance Committee, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities

Member, Municipal Law Committee, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities

Board Member, Norwalk Human Services Committee

Member, Quality and Integrated Education Local Planning Committee

Former Chair, Subcommittee on Transportation Bonding, Connecticut State Senate

Member, Technology Committee, National Conference of State Legislators

Former Co-Chair, Transportation Committee, Connecticut State Senate

Member, White House Conference on Aging, 2005

Member, Foreign Language Task Force, 1978-1992

Member, Gifted Task Force, 1988-1990

Education

  • Attended, American University
  • Attended, Commonfund Endowment Management Institute, Harvard Business School
  • BA, University of San Diego
  • MBA, International Marketing, University of Connecticut Business School

Professional Experience

  • Attended, American University
  • Attended, Commonfund Endowment Management Institute, Harvard Business School
  • BA, University of San Diego
  • MBA, International Marketing, University of Connecticut Business School
  • Translator
  • Director, Commonfund Institute
  • Marketing Executive, General Electric
  • Marketing Director, MB Systems
  • Marketing Director, Mentus
  • Secondary Education Language Teacher, Secondary Education Language
  • Executive, UAL/Westin

Political Experience

  • Attended, American University
  • Attended, Commonfund Endowment Management Institute, Harvard Business School
  • BA, University of San Diego
  • MBA, International Marketing, University of Connecticut Business School
  • Translator
  • Director, Commonfund Institute
  • Marketing Executive, General Electric
  • Marketing Director, MB Systems
  • Marketing Director, Mentus
  • Secondary Education Language Teacher, Secondary Education Language
  • Executive, UAL/Westin
  • Member, Wilton Board of Selectmen
  • Chief Deputy Majority Leader, Connecticut State Senate, 2017-2019
  • Senator, Connecticut State Senate, District 26, 2008-2019
  • Chief Deputy Minority Leader, Connecticut State Senate, 2015-2016
  • Deputy Minority Leader, Connecticut State Senate, 2010-2015
  • Candidate, United States House of Representatives, District 4, 2012
  • Assistant Minority Leader, Connecticut State House of Representatives, 2000-2008
  • Representative, Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1996-2008
  • Member, Connecticut State Board of Education, 1995-1996
  • Member, Wilton Board of Education, 1986-1994
  • Chair, Wilton Board of Education, 1991-1993

Former Committees/Caucuses

Member, Technology Task Force, 1993-present

Town Representative, Council on Public Facilities

Former Co-Chair, Education Committee, Connecticut State Senate

Member, Education Committee, National Conference of State Legislators

Former Vice Chair, Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee, Connecticut State Senate

Member, Labor Relations Committee, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities

Former Member, Legislative Management Committee, Connecticut State Senate

Member, Liability and Insurance Committee, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities

Member, Municipal Law Committee, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities

Board Member, Norwalk Human Services Committee

Member, Quality and Integrated Education Local Planning Committee

Former Chair, Subcommittee on Transportation Bonding, Connecticut State Senate

Member, Technology Committee, National Conference of State Legislators

Former Co-Chair, Transportation Committee, Connecticut State Senate

Member, White House Conference on Aging, 2005

Member, Foreign Language Task Force, 1978-1992

Member, Gifted Task Force, 1988-1990

Religious, Civic, and other Memberships

  • Attended, American University
  • Attended, Commonfund Endowment Management Institute, Harvard Business School
  • BA, University of San Diego
  • MBA, International Marketing, University of Connecticut Business School
  • Translator
  • Director, Commonfund Institute
  • Marketing Executive, General Electric
  • Marketing Director, MB Systems
  • Marketing Director, Mentus
  • Secondary Education Language Teacher, Secondary Education Language
  • Executive, UAL/Westin
  • Member, Wilton Board of Selectmen
  • Chief Deputy Majority Leader, Connecticut State Senate, 2017-2019
  • Senator, Connecticut State Senate, District 26, 2008-2019
  • Chief Deputy Minority Leader, Connecticut State Senate, 2015-2016
  • Deputy Minority Leader, Connecticut State Senate, 2010-2015
  • Candidate, United States House of Representatives, District 4, 2012
  • Assistant Minority Leader, Connecticut State House of Representatives, 2000-2008
  • Representative, Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1996-2008
  • Member, Connecticut State Board of Education, 1995-1996
  • Member, Wilton Board of Education, 1986-1994
  • Chair, Wilton Board of Education, 1991-1993
  • Member, Advisory Board, Alden Weir Farm Art Center
  • Member, Advisory Board, New Canaan Cares
  • Member, Advisory Board, New Canaan Nature Center
  • Member, Advisory Board, Wilton Education Foundation
  • Member, Board of Directors, Wilton Chapter of the AFS
  • Member, Cider Mill Community School Based Planning Team
  • Member, Connecticut Association of Boards of Education
  • Board Member, Elder House
  • Member, Friends of the Wilton Library
  • Board Member, Greystone Estates Association
  • Member, Middlebrook Community School Based Planning Team
  • Member, Miller Community School Based Planning Team
  • Member, National Association of State Boards of Education
  • Parliamentarian, National Order of Women Legislators
  • Member, Norwalk Youth Symphony
  • Member, Our Lady of Fatima Fundraising Steering Committee
  • Member, School Based Planning Team, Driscoll Community
  • Trustee, Weir Farm Heritage Trust
  • Member, Wilton High School Community School Based Planning Team
  • Volunteer, Wilton Historical Society
  • Member, Wilton League of Women Voters
  • Member, Wilton Parent-Teacher Association
  • Member, Wilton Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) Expansion Fund
  • Member, Wilton Youth Council's Project, 1994, 1996, 2000

Other Info

— Awards:

  • Connecticut Arts Advocate Award, Connecticut Arts Educators Association, 2008; Music Education Advocate Award, Connecticut Music Educators Association, 2008; Distinguished Legislator Award, Narcotic Enforcement Officers Association, 2006; Outstanding Contributions in Arts Advocacy Award, Connecticut Association of Arts Administrators, 2006; Outstanding Legal Immigrant Award, Connecticut Legal Immigrant and Refuge Coalition, 1998; Legislator of the Year, Drug Free America/Drug Free Schools Coalition/Narcotics Enforcement Officers Association; Southwest Area Commerce and Industry Association's Community Leader Award; .

Policy Positions

Connecticut State Legislative Election 2008 Political Courage Test

Abortion

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding abortion.

1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer

2. Abortions should always be legal.
- X

3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- No Answer

4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- X

5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- X

6. Abortions should be subject to a mandatory waiting period.
- No Answer

7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
- No Answer

8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Budget and Tax

State Budget: Indicate what state funding levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one level per category, you can use a number more than once.

1. Education (Higher)
- Slightly Increase

2. Education (K-12)
- Greatly Increase

3. Emergency preparedness
- Maintain Status

4. Environment
- Slightly Increase

5. Health care
- Slightly Increase

6. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase

7. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Greatly Increase

8. Welfare
- Slightly Decrease

9. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

State Taxes: Indicate what state tax levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one level per category, you can use a number more than once.

1. Alcohol taxes
- Slightly Increase

2. Cigarette taxes
- Greatly Increase

3. Corporate taxes
- Greatly Decrease

4. Gasoline taxes
- Greatly Decrease

5. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Greatly Decrease

6. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Greatly Decrease

7. Sales taxes
- Slightly Increase

8. Vehicle taxes
- Greatly Decrease

9. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

10. Should state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
- No

11. Should accounts such as a "rainy day" fund be used to balance the state budget?
- Undecided

12. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
- No

13. Should the business entity tax be repealed?
- Yes

14. Should the business entity tax be repealed on small businesses?
- Yes

15. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Campaign Finance and Government Reform

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform.

1. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Connecticut governors?
- No

2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Connecticut state senators and representatives?
- Undecided

Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative candidates?

1. Individual
- No

2. PAC
- Yes

3. Corporate
- Yes

4. Political Parties
- Yes

5. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes

6. Do you support imposing spending limits on state-level political campaigns?
- Yes

7. Should Connecticut participate in the federal REAL ID program?
- Undecided

8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Crime

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding crime.

1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
- X

2. Support the death penalty in Connecticut.
- X

3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X

4. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- No Answer

5. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer

6. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- X

7. Support state and local law enforcement officials enforcing federal immigration laws.
- X

8. Support hate crime legislation.
- X

9. Support a three-strikes law for individuals convicted of three violent felonies.
- X

10. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Education

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education.

1. Support state funding of universal pre-K programs.
- X

2. Support federal education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students (No Child Left Behind).
- X

3. Support state education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students.
- X

4. Support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- X

5. Allow parents to use vouchers to send their children to any public school.
- X

6. Allow parents to use vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- No Answer

7. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- X

8. Support using a merit pay system for teachers.
- X

9. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- X

10. Support allowing illegal immigrant high school graduates of Connecticut to pay in-state tuition at public universities.
- No Answer

11. Other or expanded principles
- f) - ?

Employment

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding employment.

1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers and teach skills needed in today's job market.
- X

2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector.
- X

3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
- X

4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- X

5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- No Answer

6. Include gender identity in Connecticut's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer

7. Increase the state minimum wage.
- No Answer

8. Support laws that prevent employers from dismissing employees at will.
- No Answer

9. Support financial punishments for those who knowingly employ illegal immigrants.
- X

10. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- X

11. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer

12. Other or expanded principles
- f) - Not Sure

Environment and Energy

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy.

1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X

2. Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, oil, etc).
- X

3. Support providing financial incentives to farms that produce biofuel crops.
- No Answer

4. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- X

5. Support funding for improvements to Connecticut's power generating and transmission facilities.
- X

6. Support funding for open space preservation.
- X

7. Limit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
- X

8. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- X

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Gun

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding guns.

1. Should background checks be required on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows?
- Yes

2. Should citizens be allowed to carry concealed guns?
- Yes

3. Should a license be required for gun possession?
- Yes

4. Do you support current levels of enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?
- Yes

5. Do you support current state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?
- Yes

6. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Health

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health.

1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
- X

2. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer

3. Support allowing municipalities, nonprofits and small businesses to buy into the state employees' health insurance plan.
- No Answer

4. Limit the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- X

5. Allow patients to sue their HMOs.
- X

6. Require hospitals and labs to release reports on infections that are a risk to public health, while not compromising patient confidentiality.
- X

7. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Connecticut.
- X

8. Support allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Social

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding social issues.

1. Should Connecticut continue to recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- Yes

2. Should same-sex couples be allowed to marry?
- Undecided

3. Should Connecticut provide state-level spousal rights to same-sex couples?
- Yes

4. Do you support a moment of silence in public schools?
- Yes

5. Do you support voluntary prayer in public schools?
- Yes

6. Do you support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods?
- Yes

7. Do you support abstinence-only sexual education programs?
- No

8. Should the state government consider race and gender in state government contracting and hiring decisions?
- Undecided

9. Do you support affirmative action in public college admissions?
- No

10. Should Connecticut continue affirmative action programs?
- No

11. Do you support state funding of stem cell research?
- Yes

12. Do you support state funding of embryonic stem cell research?
- Yes

13. Do you support allowing pharmacists who conscientiously object to emergency contraception to refuse to dispense it?
- Yes

14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Legislative Priorities

1. Please explain in a total of 100 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- No Answer

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