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AFP-CT State Director to Address Conservative Women’s Forum

March 27, 2013

HARTFORD – Americans for Prosperity CT State Director, JR Romano, will address the Conservative Women’s Forum on Thursday, March 28. The meeting will take place at Flanders Fish Market Restaurant from 11:45AM to 2PM “I look forward to engaging and interacting with this great group of activists to discuss ways we can give the silent [...]

AFP-CT Releases “I’m Not a Revenue Source” Petition

March 22, 2013

HARTFORD – Americans for Prosperity-Connecticut released their “I’m Not a Revenue Source” petition this morning at a press conference in the Statehouse. State Senator Joe Markley made remarks alongside AFP-CT State Director J.R. Romano. “While families and individuals in the state are struggling and being forced to cut back, the state government keeps growing and [...]

CT News Junkie: Home Heating Oil Dealers Oppose Surcharge, Which They Call A ‘Tax’

March 19, 2013

by Christine Stuart The Commerce Committee debated a bill Tuesday that would, for the first time, add a surcharge to home heating oil and propane used by more than 50 percent of Connecticut households. The bill, which was drafted last week, would levy a 1.5 cent per gallon surcharge starting in July. The following year [...]

WTNH: Push to increase minimum wage

February 01, 2013

By Jacquie Slater HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — It’s been two years since Connecticut saw a minimum wage hike but now there’s a new push to get that movement going again. Labor advocates want the minimum wage hiked by one dollar and fifty cents over the next two years. “Caeser, a talented meat cutter who has [...]

Romano: Connecticut Needs Right to Work

January 31, 2013

In case anyone needed additional proof that our state is falling behind in far too many economic indicators, they got one this week when the Bureau of Labor Statistics released their annual Union Membership report.  The report shows a drastic decline in union membership across the country, to the lowest level since the 1930’s. Here [...]

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