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06/29/2022 08:00 AM

Understands the Urgency


I write to encourage voters in Guilford and Branford to support Andy Gottlieb in the Aug. 9 primary for state representative. Andy is a progressive Democrat who grew up in Guilford and has impressive experience in legislation and policy. He has a master’s in international relations and economics from Johns Hopkins. He served as an intern in the U.S. Senate for Chris Murphy and a trainee at the European Parliament in Brussels. He was a founding member of the Guilford Human Rights Commission and currently conducts research and congressional advocacy in the human rights field.

Andy is devoted to democracy at home and abroad. Because of his grassroots signature-gathering campaign and commitment to ballot access, Democratic voters in the 98th District will be able to choose their nominee for state representative for the first time in living memory.

I want a legislator who understands the urgency of today’s crises and how they are related. Andy has this understanding. He embraces practical progressive ideas on the environment and energy, education, election reform, criminal justice reform, gun violence, and more. His detailed platform is outlined at andyct.org. I encourage everyone to take a look at it. Andy’s education, experience, personality and initiative make him the perfect candidate to send to Hartford for effective progressive change. We need more like him.

Dinah Wells

Guilford