12:00pm–#Trumbull Connecticut– Here is a first since I’ve started reporting. An accident between a dog and a bicyclist at Main and Middlebrooks Avenue. The dog ran out in front the bicyclist, a sixty year old man who then hit his head and is injured. The dog fled the scene.
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12:15am–#Bridgeport Connecticut– While firefighters were fighting two cars set on fire on West Parkway firefighters also responded to a trash fire at 1166 Central Avenue. Just after 12:45am police in the area called the fire department for another trash can set on fire across the street at 1167 Central Avenue.
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12:09pm–#Bridgeport Connecticut– Two cars were set a blaze on West Parkway between Bancroft and Chalmers Avenue. A suspect was seen running south on Bancroft immediately after the fire started.
4:11pm–#Southport Connecticut– A masked man approached the main door and tried to get in at People’s Bank at 411 Old Post Road but the bank was closed. The person got back in their car and got on I-95. No weapon was displayed.
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#Shelton Connecticut– Viewer Jeanne sent in this picture of this crash at Brewster Lane and Howe Avenue.
In their First Act of Power Purchased for them by CBIA, Senate Republicans Kill Senate Minimum Wage Bill Senate Republicans Choose Lobbyist Money Over Working People Reacting to the Connecticut Senate Republicans blocking legislation to raise the minimum wage, Senate President Pro Tempore Martin M. Looney (D-New Haven) and Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff (D-Norwalk) today released the following statements:
“Today, we learned that the detached and divided public spirit of President Donald Trump is alive and well right here in Connecticut, as the Connecticut Senate Republicans’ first official act under our new, bipartisan power-sharing agreement was to turn their backs on some of the hardest working and most needy people of Connecticut by dividing the Labor and Public Employees Committee to block the Senate version of the minimum wage bill. Fortunately, the House version was adopted on a party-line vote with all Democrats in support and all Republicans opposed.” said Senator Looney.
“Thousands upon thousands of Connecticut families work minimum wage jobs. For parents trying to make ends meet, for the blue collar workers hanging sheetrock or changing your oil, for single moms working two or three jobs to provide the basic necessities for their children, there may be no more important and pressing issue than earning a fair, adequate and more ‘livable’ hourly wage. A sufficient minimum wage for the working people of Connecticut is not some sort of luxury — it is an absolute necessity,” Looney continued. “Year after year, the public’s voice on this matter has been made crystal clear; now Republicans have turned a deaf ear,” said Senator Duff. Senator Duff continued, “Today is not a proud day for the Connecticut General Assembly. In fact, it is a very sad day. Senate Republicans have failed their first real test of leadership for the people of Connecticut who they claim to represent: Republicans have put pure political calculation ahead of a popular and demonstrable public need. “If this is the Connecticut Republicans’ definition of leadership, if these are the public policies that they will kill and dismantle if given some greater opportunity to govern, then Connecticut residents face a very sad and dismal future.” Poll after public poll has shown deep and bipartisan public support for minimum wage increases in Connecticut.
A March 2016 poll showed 61 percent of Connecticut residents supported increasing Connecticut’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022. The measure was especially popular with unaffiliated voters, women, and people under age 50; they argued that employees who are paid wages too low to live on often end up relying on government assistance, and that means that every single Connecticut state taxpayer ends up personally subsidizing the profit margins of private corporations that pay poverty-level wages. An April 2012 poll showed 90 percent of Democrats, 70 percent of unaffiliated voters and half of Republicans supported increasing in Connecticut’s minimum wage from $8.25 an hour to $10.10 an hour. 80 percent of residents with incomes less than $50,000 a year – and 80 percent of residents with income exceeding $100,000 a year — supported increasing the minimum wage. Three-quarters of women in that poll supported increasing Connecticut’s minimum wage.
(Connecticut State Democrats Press Release)
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3:25pm–#Bridgeport Connecticut– Reports of youths throwing items at passing vehicles from an abandoned factor at Barnum and Helen Street. A utility truck had a window smashed as a result. Police are on the way.
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12:20pm–#cttraffic–#Norwalk Connecticut– A crash on I-95 southbound between a car and two tractor trailers near exit 17 has traffic backed through Westport.
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HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman today added their voices to the growing number of citizens across Connecticut urging lawmakers to adopt legislation joining the state to a national compact that would elect the President of the United States by a national popular vote.
The legislation is having a public hearing today in the General Assembly’s Government Elections and Administration Committee.
Governor Malloy said, “Last November, our country saw one of the largest disparities in the popular vote since its founding. If we as a nation want to increase voter turnout, we need to not only combat attempts at voter suppression and gerrymandering, but we must also sign onto this compact creating a coalition of states that will award all of their electoral votes to the candidate chosen by the people. Every American deserves to have their vote counted equally for the highest office in the country. A citizen’s vote from one state should not be worth more than that of another citizen who lives in a different state. An equal vote for every American citizen, regardless of which state they happen to live in, is the fairest and most democratic way to go.”
Lt. Governor Wyman said, “Residents must trust that they have a voice in choosing our elected leaders – it’s the foundation of our democracy. Young people going to the polls for the first time should come away inspired that they helped steer their nation and shape their future. Voting is a fundamental responsibility and one of the highest forms of civic engagement. Every vote should count.”
(Press release)
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