Dear Friends,

Last night at the stroke of midnight Governor Malloy concluded his first legislative session, the impact of which will be felt by Connecticut residents and businesses for years to come.

House Republican Leader Larry Cafero said it best that this “session wasn’t just one-Party rule, it was one branch rule.”

Governor Malloy pushed a progressive, liberal agenda that catered to those who got him elected and not the families and businesses in this state who will be left to foot the bill.

With Senate President Don Williams and House Speaker Chris Donovan as his willing accomplices, Governor Malloy is responsible for $3.4 Billion in new taxes, the largest tax increase in Connecticut history.

With increases in the income tax, sales tax and new taxes on clothing, shoes, medicine and Internet commerce the Democrats are sticking Connecticut families with bills they can’t afford and telling employers to take a hike.

House Republican Leader Larry Cafero and Senate Republican Leader John McKinney held their ground and promoted policies that made responsible cuts to government spending without raising taxes or forcing employers to take their business elsewhere.

We are all responsible for turning our state and our nation around. Together, we must hold Governor Malloy and Connecticut Democrats accountable for their irresponsible policies and partisan pandering.

Join me today in holding the Democrats accountable – write a letter to the editor, call into talk radio stations and contact Democrat leaders and tell them Connecticut deserves better!

We have great Leaders in Hartford who need our help in growing our Republican base and showing voters there is an alternative to the big-government, tax and spend political class that Connecticut Democrats and labor unions have created.

As we continue the conversation about who will lead our Connecticut Republican Party for the next two years, I look forward to talking with you about my plan to bring us all together to fight the Democrats and the big labor unions.

Let us not forget that Governor Malloy won only 23 of Connecticut’s 169 towns. We will win in 2011, 2012 and in 2014 if we recommit ourselves to the Party’s core mission: registering voters, supporting our elected leaders and candidates, investing people in our candidates and our cause and raising the funds necessary to accomplish these goals.

I have a plan that will bring our elected leaders, town committee volunteers, grassroots activists and donors together to show voters that Republicans are leading by example and that there is another way.

Download the Plan (PDF)

I look forward to talking with you more about how we can make our Party better and turn our State around.

Sincerely,
Catherine

Catherine Marx
860-803-5207
marxctgop@gmail.com