Edward Miner Lamont Jr. is an American businessman and politician serving since January 2019 as the 89th governor of Connecticut. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as a Greenwich selectman from 1987 to 1989 and was the party's nominee for the United States Senate in 2006,losing to incumbent Joe Lieberman.
Dannel Patrick Malloy is an American politician who served as the 88th governor of Connecticut from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,he chaired the Democratic Governors Association from 2016 to 2017. In July 2019,he began his tenure as the Chancellor of the University of Maine System.
Katherine A. Klausmeier is an American politician who has served as a member of both chambers of the General Assembly of Maryland at the state capital of Annapolis,Maryland,currently in the upper chamber of the Maryland Senate representing District 8 in northeast Baltimore County,since 2003. A member of the Democratic Party,she previously served as president pro tempore of the Maryland Senate from 2019 to 2020 and represented the same district earlier in the lower chamber of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1995 to 2003. Klausmeier is the longest serving current member of the Maryland Senate,serving in the Maryland State House for 21 years,and as a delegate for eight years before that.
John Andrew Kissel is an American politician. Kissel,a Republican,has been a state senator from Connecticut since 1993.
The Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Connecticut. Its chair is Nancy DiNardo.
Matthew L. Lesser is an American politician who represents the 9th district in the Connecticut State Senate. A member of the Democratic Party,he was first elected to the State House in 2008,and re-elected in 2010,2012,2014,and 2016. He won election to the state Senate from the 9th district in 2018,and was reelected in 2020 and 2022. Lesser unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for Connecticut Secretary of the State in 2022.
Elizabeth Esty is an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Connecticut's 5th congressional district from 2013 to 2019. A Democrat,she previously was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives,representing the 103rd Assembly District,which consisted of Cheshire and parts of Hamden and Wallingford. She also served two terms on the Cheshire Town Council. The 5th congressional district spans central and northwest Connecticut,including Waterbury,Danbury,New Britain,Meriden,Torrington,Litchfield County,the Farmington Valley,Newtown,and Esty's hometown of Cheshire.
Eric Brakey is the current Executive Director of the Free State Project,and an American politician,who served as a Maine state senator from 2014 to 2018,and again from 2022 to 2024.
Len Fasano is a Republican member of the Connecticut Senate,representing the 34th District since 2003. Fasano was sworn in as Senate Republican President Pro Tempore in January 2017. Under the new leadership role Senator Fasano will lead a Republican caucus with considerably more control over the Senate's agenda than in previous years as a result of a power sharing agreement negotiated after Republicans gained three seats in the Connecticut Senate,creating a tie for the first time since 1893. Previously,he had served as the Senate Minority Leader since 2015.
Henri Martin is a Republican member of the Connecticut State Senate. First elected to the Senate in 2014,he has represented Connecticut's 31st State Senate district since 2015.
The 2018 Connecticut gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the next governor and lieutenant governor of Connecticut,concurrently with the election of Connecticut's Class I U.S. Senate seat,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states,elections to the United States House of Representatives,and various state and local elections. This race's Democratic margin of victory was the closest to the national average of 3.1 points.
Cannabis in Delaware is legal for medicinal and recreational use.
Cannabis in Maryland is legal for medical use and recreational use. Possession of up to 1.5 ounces and cultivation of up to 2 plants is legal for adults 21 years of age and older. In 2013,a state law was enacted to establish a state-regulated medical cannabis program. The program,known as the Natalie M. LaPrade Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission (MMCC) became operational on December 1,2017.
Cannabis in Connecticut is legal for recreational use since July 1,2021. Medical use was legalized through legislation passed in 2012.
William Haskell is an American politician and a former member of the Connecticut State Senate,representing District 26 from 2019 to 2023. The district includes the towns of Redding,Ridgefield,Wilton,and parts of Bethel,Weston,Westport,and New Canaan. Haskell is a member of the Democratic Party,and was a member of the State Senate Democratic Caucus. When Haskell originally won election to the 26th District,he became the first Democrat to represent the district in over 50 years.
Sean Scanlon is an American politician who is the current Comptroller of Connecticut. Scanlon previously served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from the 98th district.
Carlo Leone is an American politician serving as the senior adviser to ConnDOT commissioner Joseph Giulietti. Leone formerly represented the 27th district of the Connecticut State Senate as a Democrat from 2011 until his resignation in 2021. While in the State Senate,he served as deputy president pro tempore and chair of the Transportation Committee. Leone also served in the Connecticut House of Representatives representing the 148th district from 2003 to 2011. As a Democrat,he served as the deputy majority whip in the House of Representatives.
Alexandra Veronica Kasser Mochary is an American politician,attorney and advocate who served as a member of the Connecticut State Senate for the 36th district from 2019 to 2021. Connecticut's 36th district covers Greenwich and parts of Stamford and New Canaan. She is a member of the Democratic Party and was the first Democrat to be elected to this seat since 1933.
House Bill 5414,passed by the Connecticut General Assembly and signed into law by that U.S. state's Governor,Ned Lamont,on May 5,2022,as the Reproductive Freedom Defense Act,is intended to protect abortion in the state and expand the procedure's availability. Several of its provisions are responses to the Texas Heartbeat Act,passed in late 2021 and since emulated by two other states,that would prevent enforcement in Connecticut of judgements obtained by lawsuits filed under those laws against abortion providers,patients and those who facilitate them. It also allows more non-physician providers to perform certain types of abortions,codifying a past legal opinion. The law took effect July 1.
