New Haven Independent

Dems Override Rell Veto

by Melissa Bailey | May 23, 2007 8:42 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Flexing their newly gained supermajority powers for the first time to override a veto by Gov. Rell, Democratic legislators passed a bill giving the General Assembly more power over social-service funding. Click here for Indepedent Capitol Correspondent Christine Stuart’s report. … Also Tuesday, small business owners pleaded at the Capitol for tax relief, and a whistleblower filed a lawsuit charging Attorney General Blumenthal with failing to protect him from retaliation after he reported “systemic” problems within the state police internal affairs department — click here, and click here, for those reports.

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