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09/28/2016 08:00 AMAs a voter who cares strongly about protecting our environment for my children and grandchildren, I know how important it is to elect a state senator who shares my concerns and works hard to keep our environment safe and healthy. For that reason, I’ll be voting to re-elect Senator Ted Kennedy, Jr. (D-12) on Election Day. A graduate of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Ted shares our concerns and knows that a clean environment is key to our health, our economic prosperity, and our quality of life. During his first term as state senator, Ted co-chaired the Environment Committee. He earned a 94 percent positive score from the Connecticut League of Conservation Voters, which recognized him as an Environmental Champion in both sessions. He played a leading role in passing bills that will remove plastic microbeads from personal care products sold in Connecticut, reduce the use of pesticides that harm bees and other pollinators needed by Connecticut’s agriculture industry, and promote the reduction and recycling of consumer packaging. He also led the effort to reduce the use of single-use plastic carry-out bags, leadership that he’ll continue to provide if re-elected.
Regardless of whether the issue is protecting Connecticut’s rivers and Long Island Sound, reducing exposure to toxic chemicals and pesticides, increasing recycling, supporting local farms, promoting Connecticut’s use of clean renewable energy, improving our transportation system, or protecting our open space and maintaining our state parks and forests, Ted will take a proactive, bipartisan, collaborative approach to reaching the best possible outcome.
Recent legislative sessions have seen many battles over much-needed protection of Connecticut’s residents and environment. More than ever, we need a trusted environmental champion fighting for us in Hartford. I encourage your readers to join me in voting to re-elect Ted Kennedy on Nov. 8.
Bill Horne
Branford