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30 Oct, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Oh man, it’s been a busy, packed day out here on the campaign trail. But even with the rain, we’ve had big crowds at each stop.

Here’s a rundown of the day (so far):

9am - New Milford with mayoral candidate Ted Hine. His background in the private sector is unique asset.
10am rally for Danbury mayoral candidate Roberto Alves. Roberto is bringing incredible new energy to Danbury.
11:00 - Weston. First Selectwoman Sam Nestor is ready to lead the town for a full term.
Noon - My friend Jonathan Steinberg is a proven leader and consensus builder. The next First Selectman of Westport!
1:30pm - Rainy door knocking w Milford’s amazing Mayor Ben Blake.
2pm - With Connor Deane, a dynamic young candidate running for First Selectman in Orange.
3:30 - Lauren Garrett is going to be the next Mayor of Hamden and she’s great!
4pm - @rosadelauro joined me in Wallingford to support another great young candidate, Riley O’Connell. He can win!

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31 Oct
1/ What if, on Inauguration Day, I told you that in his first year, Joe Biden would cut childhood poverty in half?

“That’s a good year 1,” you might reply.

Ok what if he also got the GOP to agree to the biggest infrastructure bill in the nation’s history?

“No way!” you’d say.
2/ What if I told you he ALSO got the biggest ever investment in clean energy through a fiercely divided Congress?

“You’re pulling my leg”, you would say.

No, I would reply. And now I’m going to blow your mind, I would continue.

Guess what else he did?
3/ He got funding for 1M new affordable housing units.

He put the biggest ever investment in anti-gun violence programs.

He cut the cost of child care by $10,000 for low and middle income families.

“Whatever”, you would scoff. “All that is impossible in one year.”
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26 Oct
1/ We all need to be deeply concerned by the Sudanese military’s seizure of power and condemn General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s actions to dissolve the transitional government.

The U.S. must have a clear position in support of democracy's restoration.
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2/ After decades of suffering under Omar al-Bashir’s corrupt and oppressive regime, the people of Sudan had found hope in a democratic future, but this military coup puts that at risk.
3/ Prime Minister Hamdok and other detained civilian leaders must be swiftly released, the country must return to civilian rule, and peaceful protestors must be allowed to make their voices heard.
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13 Oct
Mike and I sat on this bench and talked for a while this morning. A Trump 2016/Biden 2020 voter, I wanted to hear his story. #WalkCT #Middletown

1/ Here it is:
2/ Mike is a lifelong Democrat, but felt like the economy was going nowhere and nobody had a good answer on how to deal with China. He knew we couldn’t bring all the jobs back, but we needed a strategy.

He thought electing “a businessman” would help. In 2016 he voted for Trump.
3/ But Trump’s bungling of COVID shocked Mike. “He’s up there telling us to inject disinfectant into our bodies!” He decided to give Biden a shot.
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12 Oct
I just met Aretha, who lives in Hartford’s south end, during my walk across Connecticut. #WalkCT

1/ Let me tell you her story to provide some color on the reality of the new post-pandemic economy.
2/ For years, she was employed as a food service worker at the Department of Motor Vehicles in Wethersfield. It was a good paying, full time job, just a bus ride from her home.

Last year, when DMV employees began working from home, she got laid off.
3/ Aretha liked that job, so she stayed on unemployment hoping she would be rehired. But when that didn’t happen, she started furiously looking for work.

Sure, she still had unemployment, but she WANTED to work. Especially since she knew UI wasn’t forever.
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1/ I was 27 on September 11, 2001. A second term state legislator. For people like me, in their formative stage of public service in 2001, 9/11 was definitional. It charted our course.
2/ I was at a meeting at Southington High School, just around the corner from my one bedroom apartment. I watched the initial reports of a plane crash on the small televisions in the school’s library. It looked like an accident at first, and I headed back home.
3/ As a poor state legislator who spent my entire salary on law school tuition, I didn’t own a proper television or have cable back then. So I pulled out a tiny black and white set and found the antenna only picked up one channel - WTNH.
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Spare me the make believe indignation from Republicans about the Afghanistan evacuation.

1/ Here's the story of the relentless Republican effort (led by President Trump) to undermine and destroy the programs that help bring Afghan refugees to the U.S.
2/ Over the last decade, Republicans have pushed to intentionally create a massive backlog in the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program - the one we use to bring Afghan partners to America, by putting onerous conditions on the applications.
3/ In 2016, Obama asked to increase the cap for the SIV program. Senate Republicans objected.

Then, the Trump Admin started slowing down SIV processing. When Biden took over, there were 10,000 unfilled visas, despite 17,000 applications in the pipeline.
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